Who Speaks for Europe?
Author : Lois Pattison De Ménil
Publisher : London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Lois Pattison De Ménil
Publisher : London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Simon Serfaty
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Hardev Singh Chopra
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9780883862889
Author : Andrew Moravcsik
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : H. G. J. Baron Gladwin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 1969
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb Baron Gladwyn
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Frédéric Bozo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780847695317
This timely book explores the often stormy French-U.S. relationship and the evolution of the Atlantic Alliance under the presidency of Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969). The first work on this subject to draw on previously inaccessible material from U.S. and French archives, the study offers a comprehensive analysis of Gaullist policies toward NATO and the United States during the 1960s, a period that reached its apogee with de Gaulle's dramatic decision in 1966 to withdraw from NATO's integrated military arm. This launched the French policy of autonomy within NATO, which has since been adapted without having been abandoned. De Gaulle's policy often has been caricatured by admirers and detractors alike as an expression of nationalism or anti-Americanism. Yet Frederic Bozo argues that although it did reflect the General's quest for grandeur, it also, and perhaps more important, stemmed from a genuine strategy designed to build an independent Europe and to help overcome the system of blocs. Indeed, the author contends, de Gaulle's actions forced NATO to adapt to new strategic realities. Retracing the different phases of de Gaulle's policies, Bozo provides valuable insight into current French approaches to foreign and security policy, including the recent attempt by President Chirac to redefine and normalize the France-NATO relationship. As the author shows, de Gaulle's legacy remains vigorous as France grapples with European integration, a new role within a reformed NATO, and relations with the United States.
Author : H.S. Chopra
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 2003-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9788170170129
This is a book on one of the most distinguished statesmen of the present century arles de Gaulle of France. The way he shaped the policy of his country towards Europe is the focus of this study the first from the pen of an Indian. In the numerous analyses of the internal and external policies of France during the de Gaulle era, the French President has been generally portrayed as unduly nationalistic, egoistic, and ambitious statesman. This book takes a different stand: his nationalism has been interpreted as conducive to European Unity; his aggressive and expansionist stance was not motivated militarily - he wanted to expand politically and culturally. The analysis is based mainly on the writings of de Gaulle; of course, other literature, available in French and in English has also been utilized. It examines in detail the major issues in his European policy, such as his conception of, and policy towards, European unity, his accomplishment of the Franco-German rapprochement, his opposition to Britain’s entry into the EEC, and his drive towards French nuclear independence. All this has been attempted in the context of the fast-changing political spectrum of Western Europe.
Author : W. W. Kulski
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0674988728
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize A New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the Year In this definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France, Julian Jackson captures Charles de Gaulle as never before. Drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers from the recently opened de Gaulle archive, he shows how this volatile visionary of staunch faith and conservative beliefs infuriated Churchill, challenged American hegemony, recognized the limitations of colonial ambitions in Algeria and Vietnam, and put a broken France back at the center of world affairs. “With a fluent style and near-total command of existing and newly available sources...Julian Jackson has come closer than anyone before him to demystifying this conservative at war with the status quo, for whom national interests were inseparable from personal honor.” —Richard Norton Smith, Wall Street Journal “A sweeping-yet-concise introduction to the most brilliant, infuriating, and ineffably French of men.” —Ross Douthat, New York Times “Classically composed and authoritative...Jackson writes wonderful political history.” —Adam Gopnik, New Yorker “A remarkable book in which the man widely chosen as the Greatest Frenchman is dissected, intelligently and lucidly, then put together again in an extraordinary fair-minded, highly readable portrait. Throughout, the book tells a thrilling story.” —Antonia Fraser, New Statesman “Makes awesome reading, and is a tribute to the fascination of its subject, and to Jackson’s mastery of it...A triumph, and hugely readable.” —Max Hastings, Sunday Times