ABSTRACT
Transatlantic relations became strained, and as the relations between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China deteriorated, those between China and the United States improved. Supranational processes, as exemplified in the European Economic Community, tend to be limited to essentially economic interactions. In the case of the members of the European Economic Community (EEC), the domestic political and socioeconomic compulsions toward cooperation and the coordination of policies needed to be channelled through institutions only imperfectly suited to the task. Domestic as well as foreign policy calculations made the advancement or intensification of integration unacceptable to many members of the EEC, leaving policy coordination as the only alternative. Coordination became the substitute for integration. As the European Economic Community expanded, the possibilities for deeper integration became even more remote, and some Europeanists suspected that those who called for enlargement of size were not anxious to see an enlargement of integration.