Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-8zxtt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-13T18:10:04.632Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Building a Political Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

H. Field Haviland Jr
Get access

Extract

These reflections on the centrifugal tendencies of interstate associations and the need for a stronger central union were penned 175 years ago by Alexander Hamilton, but they could easily have been taken, save for the quaint language, from the current debate on the Atlantic Community. As Hamilton pondered the problem of strengthening the integrating sinews of the new nation, so modern Hamiltons voice similar thoughts concerning the possibility of creating a stronger Atlantic political community.

Type
Articles
Information
International Organization , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , Summer 1963 , pp. 733 - 752
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1963

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Hamilton, Alexander, Madison, James, and Jay, John, The Federalist or The New Constitution, edited by Beloff, Max (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1948), pp. 72, 76–77Google Scholar.

2 “U.S. Citizens Commission on NATO,” Letter to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, H. Doc. 433, 87th Cong., 2nd Session, 1962.

3 The New York. Times, July 5, 1962.

4 “U.S. Citizens Commission on NATO,” op. cit., p. 9.

5 “Fifty Years After,” The Yale Review, Autumn 1961 (Vol. 51), p. 7Google Scholar.

6 Moore, Ben T., NATO and the Future of Europe (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958), pp. 207–215Google Scholar.

7 Franks, Oliver, “Cooperation is not enough,” Foreign Affairs, 10 1962 (Vol. 41, No. 1), p. 33CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 Hallstein, Walter, “NATO and the EEC” (Address at the NATO Parliamentarians' Conference, Paris, 11 1962)Google Scholar.

9 Pryce, Roy, The Political Future of the European Community (London: John Marshbank, 1962), p. 97Google Scholar.

10 Herter, Christian A., “Atlantica,” Foreign Affairs, 01 1963 (Vol. 41, No. 2), p. 301CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

11 Ibid., p. 300.

12 Spinelli, Altiero, “Atlantic Pact or European Unity,” Foreign Affairs, 07 1962 (Vol. 40, No. 4), p. 545CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

13 “U.S. Citizens Commission on NATO,” op. cit., p. 12.

14 Herter, , op. tit., p. 303Google Scholar.

15 The New York Times, July 5, 1962.