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Article: Cooperation Among Democracies: The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy.
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 1997
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By Thomas Risse-Kappen. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 250. $35.00.)
This valuable reassessment of Western alliance diplomacy during the Cold War examines several case studies (including Korea, Suez, Test Ban talks, and the Cuban Missile Crisis) to show how and why weaker NATO allies "exerted greater influence on American foreign policy during the cold war" than is usually recognized (3).
Contending that neither traditional nor sophisticated "realist" theoritical perspectives (emphasizing power disparities) explain European influence in a satisfactory way, Risse-Kappen prefers liberal theories that link domestic political ...