France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007 : : The Geopolitical Imperative / / Michael Sutton.

• VerfasserIn: Sutton, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS --; INTRODUCTION: DE GAULLE’S SHADOW --; Part I THE POST-WAR ASSERTION OF LEADERSHIP IN CONTINENTAL WESTERN EUROPE --; Chapter 1 BEFORE THE SCHUMAN PLAN --; Chapter 2 POOLING COAL AND STEEL --; Chapter 3 GERMAN REARMAMENT AND MILITARY SECURITY --; Chapter 4 THE GAULLIST VISION OF THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE AND EUROPEAN UNION --; Part II THE COMMON MARKET AND THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY --; Chapter 5 THE BENELUX INITIATIVE AND THE FORMATION OF THE COMMON MARKET --; Chapter 6 MOVING FROM DIRIGISME TO QUALIFIED ECONOMIC LIBERALISM --; Part III PRESERVING POWER AND SECURITY AFTER DE GAULLE --; Chapter 7 EUROPEAN POLITICAL INTEGRATION UP TO THE COLD WAR’S CLOSE --; Chapter 8 OPPOSITION TO GERMAN MONETARY HEGEMONY --; Chapter 9 GEOPOLITICAL UPHEAVAL AND THE MAASTRICHT TREATY --; Chapter 10 POST-YALTA AND POST-MAASTRICHT EUROPE --; EPILOGUE --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857452924
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857452924
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michael Sutton.

In the second half of the twentieth century France played the greatest role - even greater than Germany’s - in shaping what eventually became the European Union. By the early twenty-first century, however, in a hugely transformed Europe, this era had patently come to an end. This comprehensive history shows how France coupled the pursuit of power and the furtherance of European integration over a sixty-year period, from the close of the Second World War to the hesitation caused by the French electorate’s referendum rejection of the European Union’s constitutional treaty in 2005.