International Relationships
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Richard Mayne, in The Community of Europe: Past, Present and Future, examines the state of the European Common Market Community as it existed in the early 1960s. Mayne is an insider in the matters he writes about, having been for six years---at the time of the book's publication---an official of the European Economic Community. Because of the changes which have taken place in the economic and political realms among the nations of Europe in the succeeding three decades, the book must be reviewed in the context of the time in which it was written. The problems inherent in international relationships in the early 1960s remain in place today, however, and the specific economic and political relationships among the nations of Europe are still being ironed out today much as they were three decades ago. In other words, the book has not lost its fundamental relevance from either an economic or an historical perspective. Having said this, there are clearly important changes which have taken place in the three decades since Mayne's writing. Germany is no longer divided, and the author's comments relating to the Soviet Union and its satellites in Eastern Europe are obviously obsolete after the collapse of the Soviet Empire. The fears of the Soviet Union held by the nations, people and leaders of Western Europe are hardly as relevant as they once were, although the relationships between Europe and the new nations and republics fitfully emerging from the remains of the Soviet bloc are
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he years to come" (ix). Howard argues that his book is unique and important because in recent years there have appeared few works on the Turkish Straits and fewer on the role of United States policy in the area.
Howard writes from a thoroughly Western perspective, considering the significance of the Turkish Straits primarily from the view that American interests were and are paramount in the region.
The book covers events from the foundations of American policy in the area in 1830 up to post-World War II conditions. He covers issues through 1970. The author says that American policy from the early nineteenth century through the outbreak of World War I was remarkable consistent, based throughout by an aggressive and persistent view that the United States would not be denied passage through the Straits (26). Perhaps because the Ottoman Empire's leaders did not press the U>S>, the Americans were not forced to take action to maintain access.
The United States, says Howard, sought during and after World War I the same broad rights of access through the Straits for its ships, but was not vehement in its support of doing away with the Ottoman Empire, a part of the settlement after World War I which was pursued by other Allies (5
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Approximate Pages = 16 (250 words per page)
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