LEADER 04168nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910812572803321 005 20240410153714.0 010 $a0-8157-9865-2 035 $a(CKB)111087027971446 035 $a(OCoLC)70755457 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10026291 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000158285 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11164005 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158285 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10144898 035 $a(PQKB)10935966 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3004359 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027971446 100 $a20150424d2001|||| s|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe French challenge $eadapting to globalization$b[electronic resource] 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWashington, DC, USA$cBrookings Institution Press$d20011201 210 $cBrookings Institution Press 215 $a1 online resource (165 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8157-0260-4 327 $aIntro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Foreword -- Contents -- Chapter One: How Globalization Challenges France -- Chapter Two: The New French Economy: Globalization by Stealth -- Chapter Three: Trade, Culture, and Identity -- Chapter Four: Domestic Politics and Public Opinion -- Chapter Five: The French Response: Managing Globalization -- Notes -- Index. 330 $aIn August 1999 a forty-six-year-old sheep farmer name Jos#65533; Bov#65533; was arrested for dismantling the construction site of a new McDonald's restaurant in the south of France. A few months later Bov#65533; built on his fame by smuggling huge chunks of Roquefort cheese into Seattle, where he was among the leaders of the antiglobalization protests against the World Trade Organization summit. Bov#65533;'s crusade against globalization helped provoke a debate both within France and beyond about the pros and cons of a world in which financial, commercial, human, cultural, and technology flows move faster and more extensively than ever before. As the French struggle to preserve the country's identity, heritage, and distinctiveness, they are nonetheless adapting to a new economy and an interdependent world. This book deals with France's effort to adapt to globalization and its consequences for France's economy, cultural identity, domestic politics, and foreign relations. The authors begin by analyzing the structural transformation of the French economy, driven first by liberalization within the European Union and more recently by globalization. By examining a wide variety of possible measures of globalization and liberalization, the authors conclude that the French economy's adaptation has been far reaching and largely successful, even if French leaders prefer to downplay the extent of these changes in response to political pressures and public opinion. They call this adaptation "globalization by stealth." The authors also examine the relationship between trade, culture, and identity and explain why globalization has rendered the three inseparable. They show how globalization is contributing to the restructuring of the traditional French political spectrum and blurring the traditional differences between left and right. Finally, they 330 8 $aexplore France's effort to tame globalization--ma#65533;triser la mondialisation--and the possible consequences and lessons of the French s. 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE$2bisac 606 $aPublic Policy / Economic Policy$2bisac 606 $aGlobalization 606 $aCommerce$2HILCC 606 $aBusiness & Economics$2HILCC 606 $aInternational Commerce$2HILCC 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE 615 7$aPublic Policy / Economic Policy 615 0$aGlobalization 615 7$aCommerce 615 7$aBusiness & Economics 615 7$aInternational Commerce 676 $a337.44 700 $aGordon$b Philip H.$f1962-$01608439 702 $aMeunier$b Sophie 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812572803321 996 $aThe French challenge$94084143 997 $aUNINA