The Marshall Plan

by Schain, Martin A.; Judt, Tony

• ISBN13: 9780312229627
• ISBN10: 0312229623
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The text focuses first on the impact of the Marshall plan on the organization of political and economic life in post-war Europe and how the plan was perceived in European public opinion. It then examines its role in the construction of European union and in the division of Europe. Finally, the book analyzes the debate about the economic impact of the Marshall Plan in the post-war economic "miracle" in Western Europe. The authors of these chapters are well-known historians, economists, and political scientists, whose original chapters derive from their work on post-war Europe.

Author Biography

Martin A. Schain is a Professor of Politics and Director of the Center for European Studies at NYU.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Preface	ix
Contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(12)
Tony Judt
Part One The Marshall Plan and European Construction
From the Marshall Plan to EEC: Direct and Indirect Influences	13	(26)
Michelle Cini
The Marshall Plan, Britain, and European Security: Defense Integration or Coat-tail Diplomacy?	39	(22)
Jolyon Howorth
Cooperation and Community in Europe: What the Marshall Plan Proposed, NATO Disposed	61	(32)
Robert Latham
Part Two The Others: From the Outside Looking In
The Marshall Plan and Czechoslovak Democracy: Elements of Interdependancy	93	(26)
Bradley F. Abrams
Part Three The Economic Impact of the Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan Fifty Years Later: Three What-Ifs and a When	119	(12)
Roy Gardner
The Market and the Marshall Plan	131	(16)
Barry Eichengreen
The Marshall Plan in Economic Perspective: Goals and Accomplishments	147	(6)
Imanuel Wexler
Struggle for Survival: American Aid and Greek Reconstruction	153	(14)
Stelios Zachariou
Part Four The Marshall Plan and the Organization of Political Life in Postwar Europe
The Marshall Plan and French Politics	167	(18)
Irwin Wall
A Single Path for European Recovery? American Business Debates and Conflicts over the Marshall Plan	185	(20)
Jacqueline McGlade
Embedded Liberalism in France? American Hegemony, the Monnet Plan, and Postwar Multilateralism	205	(44)
Stewart Patrick
Part Five The Marshall Plan and Public Opinion
French Public Opinion and the Marshall Plan: the Communists and Others	249	(18)
Roland Cayrol
The Legacy of the Marshall Plan: American Public Support for Foreign Aid	267	(14)
Robert Shapiro
The Marshall Plan and Cold War Political Discourse	281	(14)
James E. Cronin
Index	295