02824nam 2200637 450 991079659290332120240111042650.01-5261-2606-01-5261-2605-210.7765/9781526126054(CKB)3840000000330400(MiAaPQ)EBC5224622(DE-B1597)658780(DE-B1597)9781526126054(EXLCZ)99384000000033040020180212h20182018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierIreland, West Germany and the New Europe, 1949-1973 best friend and ally? /Mervyn O'DriscollManchester, [Michigan] :Manchester University Press,2018.©20181 online resource (264 pages) illustrations0-7190-8983-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.This groundbreaking book is an indispensable contribution to appreciating the dilemmas facing Ireland in the 'age of Brexit'. Encompassing an exhaustive account, it traces the relationship between Ireland and FRG by drawing on original material from both. It critiques depictions of Irish-German relations as peculiarly affable and explores the problems presented by trade, Britain, neutrality, NATO, Northern Ireland and the Cold War. The work contends the German 'economic miracle' was a vital stimulus for Ireland's tardy retreat from protectionism. It maintains that Ireland's reorientation was informed by lessons gleaned from Irish-German trade relations as well as a budding recognition of the potential offered by German industrial investment. This granted Germany weighty influence over the shape and direction of Ireland.Ireland-Foreign relationsPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative PoliticsbisacshIrelandForeign relationsGermanyGermanyForeign relationsIrelandAnglo-Irish Trade Agreement.European Communities.Federal Republic of Germany.Ireland.Irish-West German affairs.Nazism.West Germany.development model.international reorientation.land wars.modernization.new Europe.trade disputes.Ireland-Foreign relations.POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics.341.2422O'Driscoll Mervyn1534471MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796592903321Ireland, West Germany and the New Europe, 1949-19733782081UNINA