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Haunted by History : Myths in International Relations / ed. by Beatrice Heuser, Cyrill Buffet.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [1998]Copyright date: 1998Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781789203752
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327/.09/04
LOC classification:
  • JZ1305 .H38 1998
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I MYTHS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM -- 1. Balance of Power, European Concert and Integration: The Myth of a Changing International System -- 2. Myths That Keep Small Powers Going: Internationalist Idealism in the Netherlands -- 3. The Myth of Swedish Neutrality -- 4. The Green Peril -- PART II COMPROMISE OR COMPROMISED? -- 5. The Spanish Civil War: ‘Betrayal’ by the Bourgeois Democracies -- 6. Munich, or the Blood of Others -- 7. Yalta, the Myth of the Division of the World -- 8. The Myth of Potsdam -- 9. Clichés of Our Memory -- PART III SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS -- 10. The ‘Special Relationship’: A Diverting British Myth? -- 11. Is Britain Part of Europe? The Myth of British ‘Difference’ -- 12. Dunkirk, Diên Biên Phu, Suez or Why France Does Not Trust Allies and Has Learnt to Love the Bomb -- 13. Marianne and Michel: The Franco-German Coupl -- PART IV MYTHS OF GERMANY -- 14. The Myth of the German Sonderweg -- 15. The Myth of Prussia -- 16. Rapallo: Sirens and Phantoms -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX: THE BERLINMYTH -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Summary: Europe is a continent weighed down by the shadows of its past, its wars, the traditional enmities, the suspicions of neighbours fuelled by historical memories. This has immediate consequences for the understanding and representation of the past: journalists, politicians, historians often apply simplistic, pre-conceived patterns, i.e., myths, to current events, resulting in distorted and misleading analyses. This volume exposes the way some historical myths, such as Balance of Power, Rapallo, the Special Relationship, the Franco-German Couple, the Peril of Islam, are used to blur, not to clarify our understanding of international affairs, even to manipulate contemporary politics.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I MYTHS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM -- 1. Balance of Power, European Concert and Integration: The Myth of a Changing International System -- 2. Myths That Keep Small Powers Going: Internationalist Idealism in the Netherlands -- 3. The Myth of Swedish Neutrality -- 4. The Green Peril -- PART II COMPROMISE OR COMPROMISED? -- 5. The Spanish Civil War: ‘Betrayal’ by the Bourgeois Democracies -- 6. Munich, or the Blood of Others -- 7. Yalta, the Myth of the Division of the World -- 8. The Myth of Potsdam -- 9. Clichés of Our Memory -- PART III SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS -- 10. The ‘Special Relationship’: A Diverting British Myth? -- 11. Is Britain Part of Europe? The Myth of British ‘Difference’ -- 12. Dunkirk, Diên Biên Phu, Suez or Why France Does Not Trust Allies and Has Learnt to Love the Bomb -- 13. Marianne and Michel: The Franco-German Coupl -- PART IV MYTHS OF GERMANY -- 14. The Myth of the German Sonderweg -- 15. The Myth of Prussia -- 16. Rapallo: Sirens and Phantoms -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX: THE BERLINMYTH -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

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Europe is a continent weighed down by the shadows of its past, its wars, the traditional enmities, the suspicions of neighbours fuelled by historical memories. This has immediate consequences for the understanding and representation of the past: journalists, politicians, historians often apply simplistic, pre-conceived patterns, i.e., myths, to current events, resulting in distorted and misleading analyses. This volume exposes the way some historical myths, such as Balance of Power, Rapallo, the Special Relationship, the Franco-German Couple, the Peril of Islam, are used to blur, not to clarify our understanding of international affairs, even to manipulate contemporary politics.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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