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The other alliance

Klimke, Martin

2010,2009

Overview

Using previously classified documents and original interviews,The Other Allianceexamines the channels of cooperation between American and West German student movements throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and the reactions these relationships provoked from the U.S. government. Revising the standard narratives of American and West German social mobilization, Martin Klimke demonstrates the strong transnational connections between New Left groups on both sides of the Atlantic. Klimke shows that the cold war partnership of the American and German governments was mirrored by a coalition of rebelling counterelites, whose common political origins and opposition to the Vietnam War played a vital role in generating dissent in the United States and Europe. American protest techniques such as the \"sit-in\" or \"teach-in\" became crucial components of the main organization driving student activism in West Germany--the German Socialist Student League--and motivated American and German student activists to construct networks against global imperialism. Klimke traces the impact that Black Power and Germany's unresolved National Socialist past had on the German student movement; he investigates how U.S. government agencies, such as the State Department's Interagency Youth Committee, advised American policymakers on confrontations with student unrest abroad; and he highlights the challenges student protesters posed to cold war alliances. Exploring the catalysts of cross-pollination between student protest movements on two continents,The Other Allianceis a pioneering work of transnational history.

• Publisher: Princeton Univ. Press,Princeton University Press
• Subject: 20th Century / Activism / African Americans / Alliances / American imperialism / Angela Davis / Anti-Americanism / Anti-communism / Anti-imperialism / Anti-war movement / Black Panther Party / Black Power / Black Power movement / Border / C. Wright Mills / Capitalism / Che Guevara / Class conflict / Cold War / Communism / Counterculture of the 1960s / Criticism / Cultural diplomacy / Daniel Cohn-Bendit / Democracy / Desertion / Deutschland-BRD / Disarmament / Dissent / Federal republic / Foreign policy / Foreign policy of the United States / Free Speech Movement / Fritz Stern / German student movement / Germany / Germany (West) / Geschichte (Histor) / Herbert Marcuse / HISTORY / HISTORY / Europe / Germany / HISTORY / United States / 20th Century / HISTORY / World / Ideology / Imperialism / International cooperation / International relations / Internationale Politik / Internationale Zusammenarbeit / John F. Kennedy / Kritik / Latin America / Left-wing politics / Liberation movement / Lyndon B. Johnson / Manifesto / Marxism / May 1968 events in France / Nazism / Neue Linke / Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War / Peace Corps / Political activity / Political history / Political opposition / Political Science / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights / Politics / Politischer Protest / Port Huron Statement / Protest / Protest movements / Protest movements -- Germany (West) -- History / Protest movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century / Radicalization / Red Army Faction / Revolutionary movement / Rhetoric / Rudi Dutschke / Schwarzer / Sit-in / Soviet Union / Soziales Netzwerk / Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund / Student movements / Student movements -- Germany (West) -- History / Student movements -- International cooperation -- History -- 20th century / Student movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century / Student protest / Studentenbewegung / Students / Students -- Political activity -- Germany (West) -- History / Students -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century / Subversion / Teach-in / Terrorism / Third World / Tom Hayden / Trade union / U.S.A / United States / United States Department of State / Unrest / USA / Viet Cong / Vietnam War / Vietnam War, 1961-1975 / Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- Germany (West) / Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States / West Berlin / West Germany / World
• ISBN: 9780691131276, 0691131279, 0691152462, 9780691152462, 9781400832156, 1400832152