The Year of Europe: America, Europe and the Energy Crisis, 1972-74

Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III Volume IV

Keith Hamilton, Patrick Salmon, Keith Hamilton, Patrick Salmon

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN: 9780415391498, 9780415391498
• eBook ISBN: 9781136746628
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

This is the latest volume of Documents on British Policy Overseas and the first in the series to be produced in electronic format, covering the principal themes of: the European Union, transatlantic divisions, war in the Middle East and the diplomacy of the energy crisis. Edited and selected by Foreign and Commonwealth Office historians, it consist

Abbreviations

ABM	Anti-Ballistic Missile
AP/AFP	Associated Foreign Press
APS	Assistant Private Secretary
ARAMCO	Arabian American Oil Company
ASU	Arab Socialist Union
AUS	Assistant Under-Secretary of State
BP	British Petroleum
BRITAIRAT	British Air Attaché
BRITDEFAT	British Defence Attaché
C20	Committee of the IMF’s Board of Governors on Reform of the International Monetary System
CAP	Common Agricultural Policy
CBFNE	Commander British Forces Near East
CIEP	Council on International Economic Policy
CMEA/COMECON COCOM	Council for Mutual Economic Assistance Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls
COD	Communications Operations Department, FCO
CONS D	Consular Department, FCO
CONS E UNIT	Consular Emergency Unit, FCO
COREPER	Comité des Representants Permanents/Committee of Permanent Representatives
CPRS	Central Policy Review Staff, Cabinet Office
CPSU	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CPX	Command Post Exercise
CSCE	Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
CSD	Civil Service Department
despt	despatch
DISCS	Domestic International Sales Corporations
DOP	Defence and Oversea Policy Committee of the Cabinet
DPC	Defence Planning Committee, NATO
DTI	Department of Trade and Industry
DUS	Deputy Under-Secretary of State
EAG	Energy Action Group
EC	European Community/Communities
EDF	European Development Fund
EDIP	European Defence Improvement Programme
EEC	European Economic Community
EESD	Eastern European and Soviet Department, FCO
EFTA	European Free Trade Area
EID (E)/(I)	European Integration Department (Exernal)/(Internal)
EMU	European Monetary Union
EN D	Energy Department, FCO
EPC	European Political Cooperation
EUM	Cabinet Ministerial Committee on Europe
EURONAD	European National Armament Directors, NATO
FBS	Forward Based [Nuclear Delivery] Systems
FCO	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
FED	Far Eastern Department, FCO
FRD	Financial Rel...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Preface
• Contents
• 1. Abbreviations
• 2. Introduction
• 3. List of Persons
• 4. Document Summaries