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Globalizing de Gaulle
eBook - International Perspectives on French Foreign Policies, 1958-1969, The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
ISBN/EAN: 9780739142509
Umbreit-Nr.: 813112
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 326 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 27.04.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- French President Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969) has consistently fascinated contemporaries and historians. His vision_conceived out of national interest_of uniting Europe under French leadership and overcoming the Cold War still remains relevant and appealing. De Gaulle's towering personality and his challenge to US hegemony in the Cold War have inspired a vast number of political biographies and analyses of the foreign policies of the Fifth Republic mostly from French or US angle. In contrast, this book serves to rediscover de Gaulle's global policies how they changed the Cold War. Offering truly global perspectives on France's approach to the world during de Gaulle's presidency, the 13 well-matched essays by leading experts in the field tap into newly available sources drawn from US, European, Asian, African and Latin American archives. Together, the contributions integrate previously neglected regions, actors and topics with more familiar and newly approached phenomena into a global picture of the General's international policy-making. The volume at hand is an example of how cutting-edge research benefits from multipolar and multi-archival approaches and from attention to big, middle and smaller powers as well as institutions.
- Kurztext
- This book offers novel perspectives and insights into key themes of French foreign policy in the de Gaulle years (1958-69). Globalizing research on the ideas and impact of le gZnZral, the volume's 13 well-matched essays by leading experts in the field tap into newly available records, ranging from Europe to the US, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The volume is the first to reassess Charles de Gaulle's foreign policies from a global angle.
- Autorenportrait
- Christian Nuenlist is a lecturer in contemporary history at the University of Zurich and a foreign desk editor at the Swiss daily 'Aargauer Zeitung.' He is the author of Kennedys rechte Hand (CSS, 1999), and the co-editor of Origins of the European Security System (Routledge, 2008). Anna Locher is a senior researcher at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich. She co-edited Transforming NATO in the Cold War (Routledge, 2007) and Aspects of NATO History, 1957-75 (CSS, 2006). Garret Martin is editor at large with the European Institute, based in Washington, DC.