In this volume, essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic open new perspectives on the construction of the "Atlantic community" during World War II and the early Cold War years. Based on original approaches bringing together diplomatic history and the history of culture and ideas, the book shows how atlantism came to provide a solid ideological foundation for the security community of North American and European nations which took shape in the 1940s. The idea of a transatlantic community based on shared histories, values, and political and economic institutions was instrumental to the creation of the Atlantic Alliance, and partly accounts for the continuing existence of the Atlantic partnership after the Cold War. At the same time, this study breaks new ground by arguing that the emergence of the idea of "Atlantic community" also reflected deeper trends in transatlantic relations; in fact, it was the outcome of the re-definition of "the West" due to the rise of the US and the decline of Europe in the international arena during the first half of the Twentieth Century.
Author(s): Marco Mariano
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 226
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Part I: American Vistas......Page 20
1 How Europe Became Atlantic: Walter Lippmann and the New Geography of the Atlantic Community......Page 22
2 Wilsonianism, Pre-Wilsonian American Liberalism, and the Atlantic Community......Page 37
3 The Atlantic Community as Christendom: Some Reflections on Christian Atlanticism in America, circa 1900–1950......Page 56
4 Remapping America: Continentalism, Globalism, and the Rise of the Atlantic Community, 1939–1949......Page 80
Part II: Transatlantic Crossings......Page 98
5 Social Protection and the Promise of a Secure Future in Wartime Europe and America......Page 100
6 What Winning Stories Teach: The Marshall Plan and Atlanticism as Enduring Narratives......Page 120
7 The Congress for Cultural Freedom: Constructing an Intellectual Atlantic Community......Page 141
Part III: At the Receiving End......Page 156
8 The Anglo-American “Special Relationship” in the Atlantic Context During the Late 1940s and 1950s......Page 158
9 When the High Seas Finally Reached Italian Shores: Italy’s Inclusion in the Atlantic Communitas......Page 170
10 The Atlantic Community and the Restoration of the Global Balance of Power: The Western Alliance, Japan, and the Cold War, 1947–1951......Page 183
11 Old West versus New West: Perón’s “Third Position,” Latin America, and the Atlantic Community......Page 200
Contributors......Page 218
Index......Page 222
