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Book Review

Comparative/World

Helene Sjursen. The United States, Western Europe and the Polish Crisis: International Relations in the Second World War. (Cold War History.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. Pp. ix, 201. $65.00.

Helene Sjursen is a specialist on European security and the development of common European policies. The "Polish Crisis" in the Western alliance was triggered by the establishment in Poland of the independent trade union "Solidarity," the first such union in the Soviet bloc. Solidarity existed openly from August 31, 1981, until the imposition of martial law by the Polish government in the early hours of December 13, 1981, and continued to exist underground until 1989. The crisis in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) developed with disagreement on the type and range of economic sanctions to be imposed on Poland and the USSR—for the latter was seen as responsible for martial law—and continued until they were dropped when judged ineffective. Sjursen's goal is to show that the crisis arose from different conceptions of appropriate action, and that policies were affected by other factors than security, including views of normative behavior in international relations (pp. 1–2).

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