Eamonn McGrattan

Mr. McGrattan s work focuses on the emergence and manipulation of identity politics in transatlantic relations in the early 1970 s and on competing ideas of a nascent European identity. It centers on Henry Kissinger s famous Year of Europe speech of April 1973 and hopes to contextualize it in the light of a growing transatlantic cultural drift provoked most clearly by the Vietnam War and the radical discourse of the late 1960 s and further aggravated by Cold War d tente, the collapse of the Bretton-Woods system and the enlargement of the European Community.