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Atlantis Lost: U.S.-European Relations After the Cold War

Edited by James Chace and Earl C. Ravenal
Reviewed by Gaddis Smith
October 1976
Atlantis Lost: U.S.-European Relations After the Cold War
Edited by James Chace and Earl C. Ravenal
New York University Press (for the Council on Foreign Relations)
1976
273 pp.
$20.00
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Thoughtful but rather repetitive essays, by ten American experts including Stanley Hoffmann and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Most of the authors eschew hortatory rhetoric while speculating about the unknowable future. None believe a closer U.S.-European relationship is probable.

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