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An analysis of the German Question´s influence on the origins of the Cold War, arguing that the legal and diplomatic intercourse between the Allies regarding the treatment of the German Question brought forward the elements of intervention and coexistence which formed the basis for a relatively peaceful postwar international order.

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Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction: The German Question and the Origins of the Cold War The Practical Association Framework between the Allies during World War Two American and Soviet Structural Interests The Social Process of Conflict The Treatment of the German Question: the Revolutionist Context The German Question and the ´primary institutions´ of the Postwar International Order The German Question and the Transformation of ´international society´ The English School, the German Question and the Origins of the Cold War Select Bibliography Index

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´...Lewkowicz has made a valuable contribution to our understanding of the beginnings of the Cold War, also drawing some interesting parallels between the German precedent and Bosnia-Hercegovina, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan...´ - Martin Lak, Erasmus University Rotterdam, German History

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NICOLAS LEWKOWICZicolas was educated at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK and at The University of Nottingham, UK, where he received his PhD in History. He has taught modern European history at the Universities of Nottingham, Leicester, Birmingham and Bristol. He currently lectures at the University of Kent.

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