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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• 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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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