LEADER 03259nam 2200565 450 001 9910494740903321 005 20211020213138.0 010 $a0-85745-292-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000001238821 035 $a(EBL)1659342 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000383521 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11285400 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000383521 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10331907 035 $a(PQKB)10976436 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1659342 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001238821 100 $a20140422h20112011 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrance and the construction of Europe, 1944-2007 $ethe geopolitical imperative /$fMichael Sutton 210 1$aNew York :$cBerghahn Books,$d[2011] 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (380 p.) 225 1 $aBerghahn monographs in French studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-85745-290-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFRANCE 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 327 $aChapter 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 330 $aIn the second half of the twentieth century France played the greatest role - even greater than Germany's - in shaping what eventually became the European Union. By the early twenty-first century, however, in a hugely transformed Europe, this era had patently come to an end. This comprehensive history shows how France coupled the pursuit of power and the furtherance of European integration over a sixty-year period, from the close of the Second World War to the hesitation caused by the French electorate's referendum rejection of the European Union's constitutional treaty in 2005. 410 0$aBerghahn monographs in French studies. 607 $aFrance$xForeign relations$y1945- 607 $aFrance$xPolitics and government$y1945- 607 $aFrance$xForeign relations$zEuropean Union countries 607 $aEuropean Union countries$xForeign relations$zFrance 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a327.440409/045 676 $a327.440409045 700 $aSutton$b Michael$0523157 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910494740903321 996 $aFrance and the construction of Europe, 1944-2007$92484593 997 $aUNINA