Book ID: CBB778903565

West Germany and Israel: Foreign relations, domestic politics, and the Cold War, 1965–1974 (2019)

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Fink, Carole (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 349
Language: English

By the late 1960s, West Germany and Israel were moving in almost opposite diplomatic directions in a political environment dominated by the Cold War. The Federal Republic launched ambitious policies to reconcile with its Iron Curtain neighbors, expand its influence in the Arab world, and promote West European interests vis-à-vis the United States. By contrast, Israel, unable to obtain peace with the Arabs after its 1967 military victory and threatened by Palestinian terrorism, became increasingly dependent upon the United States, estranged from the USSR and Western Europe, and isolated from the Third World. Nonetheless, the two countries remained connected by shared security concerns, personal bonds, and recurrent evocations of the German-Jewish past. Drawing upon newly-available sources covering the first decade of the countries' formal diplomatic ties, Carole Fink reveals the underlying issues that shaped these two countries' fraught relationship and sets their foreign and domestic policies in a global context. (Publisher)

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Authors & Contributors
Péter Vámos
Stella Krepp
Erik Grimmer-Solem
Yehonatan Abramson
Nicholas Anthony Autiello
Zofka, Jan
Concepts
International relations
Cold War
Politics and government
Geopolitics
Science and politics
Germany
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
China
Middle and Near East
Eastern Europe
Taiwan
Soviet Union
Institutions
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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