THE ATTITUDE OF THE USA TO THE CREATION OF EEC AND EFTA: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Abstract
In the middle of the 1950s the countries of Western Europe discussed the following options for further development of their regional economic cooperation: deepening of the European integration process via creation of customs union or widening of inter-governmental cooperation through the formation of free trade area. Existence of different approaches in Great Britain and the countries of continental Europe to that issue led to the establishment of two economic groupings: European Economic Community and European Free Trade Association. On the basis of analysis of American diplomatic documents, this paper examines the USA‘s attitude to the creation of both economic groupings. It defines the reasons why the US government had made preference to the establishment of customs union (EEC), but not to the creation of free trade area (EFTA). Because in that period in the American policy towards European integration the political motives connected with the strengthening of Western block and containment of Germany prevailed, the US administration supported the creation of EEC as a way to strengthen the political cohesion of the countries of Western Europe.
About the Author
O. G. Lekarenko
National Research Tomsk State University
Russian Federation
Oksana G. Lekarenko – Doctor of History, Professor at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History and International Relations
Russian Federation
Oksana G. Lekarenko – Doctor of History, Professor at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History and International Relations
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Lekarenko O.G. THE ATTITUDE OF THE USA TO THE CREATION OF EEC AND EFTA: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS. SibScript. 2015;(3-2):193-198. (In Russ.)
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