CONTENTS
General preface to 'What Is Europe?' = 5
Introduction to Book 4 = 7
Essay 1: Europe and the Third World = 11
Introduction = 11
The European encompassment of the world after 1450 = 16
The origins of the 'modern world system'? = 19
Europe and Asia in the first imperial age = 22
The opening of China = 27
Industrial capitalism and the 'imperialism of free trade' = 29
Europe and Africa = 33
Who profited from modern colonialism? = 37
The economic and social legacy of colonialism in the Third World = 40
The political legacy of colonialism in the Third World = 47
Decolonization = 48
Asian decolonization = 49
African decolonization = 53
Western aid to the Third World = 62
Conclusions = 65
References and further reading = 67
Essay 2: Europe and Russia = 73
Introduction = 73
Russia and Europe = 75
The origins of the Russian state = 75
Ambiguities of Russian modernization = 80
The Soviet response = 83
Russia in Europe = 87
The origins of post-war eastern Europe = 88
Europe's shifting frontier = 91
The establishment of Soviet Europe = 94
Soviet-European relations after 1945 = 96
Europe in the age of superpower rivalry = 97
Developments after Stalin = 99
D$$\acute e$$tente and the resurgence of Europe = 103
Russia in the 'common European house' = 105
Gorbachev and the 'new thinking' = 105
The return to Europe = 109
Russia and the new Europe = 112
References = 117
Essay 3: Europe and the United States = 119
Introduction = 119
The inter-war background = 122
The Cold War declared: 1945-1953 = 124
The early stages = 124
The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan and NATO = 128
European responses = 133
Cultural and economic developments = 135
Summary = 141
America dominant: 1953-1973 = 142
International developments = 143
Alternative visions: Kennedy, de Gaulle and Monnet = 144
Economic and cultural developments = 149
A changing balance: 1973-1989 = 153,
International developments = 155
Economic and cultural developments = 158
Conclusion = 160
After the Cold War: the future of the Atlantic partnership? = 161
References = 162
Essay 4: Europe in the global economy = 165
Introduction = 165
What is the European economic space? = 168
The institutional matrix of economic Europe = 168
Patterns of European economic interactions = 172
The international economic order and Europe's place within it = 183
The evolving European economic order = 192
Europe and the management of the global economy = 198
A partial break-up of the ERM? The events of September 1992 = 202
The three blocs considered = 203
Conclusions = 205
Appendix 1: Glossary of abbreviations = 207
Appendix 2: World economic groupings = 209
References = 210
Postscript, April 1994 = 211
Acknowledgements = 217
Notes on contributors = 218
Index = 219
