Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 740 g
The Geopolitical Imperative
Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 740 g
Reihe: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies
ISBN: 978-1-84545-393-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books
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.
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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
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Earlier Calls for European Union
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The Quest for Security and the Onset of the Cold War
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Western European Economic and Political Cooperation
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Wariness about the New West Germany
Chapter 2. Pooling Coal and Steel
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The Monnet Initiative
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The Schuman Declaration
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Forging the ECSC Treaty
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Ratification and Implementation
Chapter 3. German Rearmament and Military Security
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The Pleven Plan
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The Rejection of the EDC Treaty
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The Paris Accords
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The Suez Crisis and its Aftermath
Chapter 4. The Gaullist Vision of the Atlantic Alliance and European Union
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Adenauer, the US, and the Berlin Crisis
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The Failure of the Fouchet Committee
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A Rose and a Rose Garden
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‘Tous Azimuts’ and the Limits of Détente
PART II: THE COMMON MARKET AND THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY
Chapter 5. The Benelux Initiative and the Formation of the Common Market
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Messina to Venice
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Negotiating the EEC and Euratom
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De Gaulle’s ‘Practising the Common Market’
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Securing Agricultural Interests
Chapter 6. Moving from Dirigisme to Qualified Economic Liberalism
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The Watering Down of Post-war Dirigisme
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Delors and the Single Market
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The Reorientation of Foreign Trade
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Globalisation and French Hesitations
PART III: PRESERVING POWER AND SECURITY AFTER DE GAULLE
Chapter 7. European Political Integration up to the Cold War’s Close
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The Rapprochement with Albion
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Echoes of the Fouchet Proposals
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America’s ‘Year of Europe’ and the Atlantic Alliance
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Back to the Elysée Treaty
Chapter 8. Opposition to German Monetary Hegemony
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The Death of the Bretton Woods System
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The Deutsche Mark as Anchor Currency
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The EMS and its Ambivalent Design
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The Dictates of the ERM and French Dissatisfaction
Chapter 9. Geopolitical Upheaval and the Maastricht Treaty
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Monetary Union Proposed from Paris and Bonn
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France and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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The Drive for German Unification
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Providing a Treaty for European Union
Chapter 10. Post-Yalta and Post-Maastricht Europe
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Implementing EMU and ‘La Pensée Unique’
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The Yugoslav Imbroglio
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Rethinking Security and Defence
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The European Union and the Other Europe
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
