France and the construction of Europe, 1944-2007 : the geopolitical imperative / / Michael Sutton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819884703321
• Autore: Sutton Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• ISBN: 0-85745-292-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (380 p.)
• Collana: Berghahn monographs in French studies
• Disciplina: 327.440409/045; 327.440409045
• Soggetti: HISTORY / Europe / France; France Foreign relations 1945-; France Politics and government 1945-; France Foreign relations European Union countries; European Union countries Foreign relations France
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: FRANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF EUROPE, 1944-2007; 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 LIBERALISMPart 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.