冷战中的赔偿与石油:1952年卢森堡协定的英国视角

IF 0.7 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Journal of Contemporary History Pub Date : 2023-11-13 DOI:10.1177/00220094231209246
Daniel Siemens
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本文分析了英国对1952年以色列与德意志联邦共和国签订的《卢森堡赔偿协定》的看法。在评估脱欧协议对英国的影响时,短期经济利益是至关重要的。女王陛下政府欢迎西德的赔偿,认为这是确保以色列有能力支付英国公司提供的石油的一种手段,但同时认为这是对其在中东的经济和政治利益的威胁。英国外交官低估了《卢森堡协定》的长期政治价值,正是因为他们逐字逐句地阅读了该协定。他们认识到双方的保留意见,但没有预料到以色列和联邦共和国之间的工作关系会在协议批准后迅速改善,从而限制了英国在该地区的政治和经济回旋余地。通过研究战后英国外交政策中迄今为止鲜为人知的一章,本文展望了20世纪50年代初外交的商业方面,有助于更好地理解冷战时期的国际关系。
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Reparations and Oil in the Cold War: British Perspectives on the Luxembourg Agreement of 1952
This article analyses the British perspectives on the Luxembourg Reparations Agreement between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany from 1952. Short-term economic interests were of central importance when it came to assessing the consequences of this deal for the United Kingdom. Her Majesty's Government welcomed West German reparations as a means of securing Israel's ability to pay for oil supplied by British companies, but at the same time saw them as a threat to its economic and political interests in the Middle East. British diplomats underestimated the long-term political value of the Luxembourg Agreement precisely because they read it verbatim. They recognized the reservations on both sides but did not expect that working relations between Israel and the Federal Republic would improve rapidly after the Agreement was ratified, limiting in turn the UK's political and economic room for manoeuvre in the region. By examining a hitherto little-noticed chapter of British foreign policy in the postwar years, the article foregrounds the commercial aspects of diplomacy in the early 1950s and contributes to a better understanding of international relations in the Cold War.
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