Globalizing de Gaulle (eBook, ePUB)

International Perspectives on French Foreign Policies, 1958-1969
Redaktion: Nuenlist, Christian; Martin, Garret; Locher, Anna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

French President Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969) has consistently fascinated contemporaries and historians. His vision-conceived out of national interest-of uniting Europe under French leadership and overcoming the Cold War still remains relevant and appealing. De Gaulle's towering personality and his challenge to US hegemony in the Cold War have inspired a vast number of political biographies and analyses of the foreign policies of the Fifth Republic mostly from French or US angle. In contrast, this book serves to rediscover de Gaulle's global policies how they changed the Cold War. Offering truly global perspectives on France's approach to the world during de Gaulle's presidency, the 13 well-matched essays by leading experts in the field tap into newly available sources drawn from US, European, Asian, African and Latin American archives. Together, the contributions integrate previously neglected regions, actors and topics with more familiar and newly approached phenomena into a global picture of the General's international policy-making. The volume at hand is an example of how cutting-edge research benefits from multipolar and multi-archival approaches and from attention to big, middle and smaller powers as well as institutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739142509
• Artikelnr.: 38226482

Autorenporträt

Christian Nuenlist is a lecturer in contemporary history at the University of Zurich and a foreign desk editor at the Swiss daily Aargauer Zeitung. He is the author of Kennedys rechte Hand (1999) and the co-editor of Origins of the European Security System (2008). Anna Locher is an independent historian and publicist. She is the author of NATO, de Gaulle, and the Future of the Alliance, 1963-1966 (2010) and the coeditor of Transforming NATO in the Cold War (2007). Garret Martin is editor at large with the European Institute, based in Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: What's New?
Part 2 PART I: Europe
Chapter 3 Chapter 1: De Gaulle, French Diplomacy, and Franco-Soviet
Relations as Seen from Moscow
Chapter 4 Chapter 2: A "Cordial Potentiality?" De Gaulle and the
Franco-German Partnership
Chapter 5 Chapter 3: From Words to Action: Reinterpreting de Gaulle's
European Policy
Part 6 PART II: Transatlantia
Chapter 7 Chapter 4: NATO Strategies toward de Gaulle's France: Learning to
Cope
Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Dealing with de Gaulle: The United States and France
Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Britain, de Gaulle's NATO Policies, and Anglo-French
Rivalry, 1963-1967
Part 10 PART III: ASIA
Chapter 11 Chapter 7: The U.S. Escalation in Vietnam and de Gaulle's Secret
Search for Peace, 1964-1966
Chapter 12 Chapter 8: Seeking a Multipolar World: China and de Gaulle's
France
Chapter 13 Chapter 9: A Hot Summer: France, Israel, and the Middle East
Crisis in 1958
Part 14 PART IV: Africa and Latin America
Chapter 15 Chapter 10: "Je ne vous ai pas compris": De Gaulle's Decade of
Negotiation with the Algerian FLN
Chapter 16 Chapter 11: De Gaulle and Sub-Saharan Africa: From
Decolonization to French Development Policy, 1958-63
Chapter 17 Chapter 12: The Hero on the Latin American Scene
Chapter 18 Conclusion: A Gaullist Grant Strategy?