‘Despite some of America’s allies being highly anti-American themselves, such as Goslan’s description of French anti-Americanism being “so heartfelt” that it was a “inspiration for other European anti-Americanism”, the circumstances of the Cold War forced them to submit to the balance of threats theory.’
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