Foreign Affairs · 1990 · 116 citations · 0 references
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Foreword Authors' preface Abbreviations List of tables and figures Prologue: Part One: Birth of the European Payments Union: The age in which the EPU was conceived Proposals and outbursts Governments: perceptions of national interests Negotiations: the long, hot spring of 1950 Part Two: Crisis Management - The First Two Years: APU system in a nutshell German payments crisis of 1950/1 Coping with rearmament Countries in dire staits Part Three: Negotiating for convertibility: From ROBOT to Istanbul: an overview A dash to convertibility? With measured step: the institutional approach Charting the course: the European Monetary Agreement Part Four: Anticipating C-Day: Last years of the EPU: an overview How Germany's surpluses began French crisis of 1957-8 Returning Turkey to the fold Operation Unicorn: end of the EPU Part Five: A System That Worked: Managing the system Aims and acoomplishments Epilogue: Appendix A: Where did the ideas come from?