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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Berghahn Monographs in French Studies ; 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (366 p.)
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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