A Certain Idea of France : : French Security Policy and Gaullist Legacy / / Phillip H. Gordon.

As France begins to confront the new challenges of the post-Cold War era, the time has come to examine how French security policy has evolved since Charles de Gaulle set it on an independent course in the 1960s. Philip Gordon shows that the Gaullist model, contrary to widely held beliefs, has lived...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1993]
©1993
Year of Publication:1993
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in International History and Politics ; 42
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Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • PART ONE: THE GAULLIST YEARS
  • Chapter One. Perspectives on de Gaulle
  • Chapter Two. The Missing Pillar: France's Role in the Defense of Europe in the 1950s and 1960s
  • Chapter Three. Manipulating Ambiguity: Military Doctrines under de Gaulle and Pompidou
  • PART TWO: STRUGGLING TO ADAPT
  • Chapter Four. Giscard's Balancing Act, 1974-1981
  • Chapter Five. Mitterrand's Adaptations, 1981-1986
  • Chapter Six. Tensions in the Consensus, 1986-1989
  • PART THREE: FRANCE IN THE NEWEUROPE
  • Chapter Seven. The Gaullist Legacy Today: French Security Policy in the 1990s
  • Chapter Eight. Epilogue: The Gaullist Legacy and the Post-Cold War World
  • Notes
  • Glossary of French Terms Used
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index