Globalizing de Gaulle International Perspectives on French Foreign Policies, 1958–1969

by Nuenlist, Christian; Locher, Anna; Martin, Garret; Byrne, Jeffrey James; Davidson, Carolyn; Ellison, James; Fermandois, Joaquín; Germond, Carine; Heimann, Gadi; Kramer, Mark; Ludlow, Piers; Migani, Guia; Rey, Marie-Pierre; Torikata, Yuko; Zhai, Qiang

• ISBN13: 9780739142493
• ISBN10: 0739142496
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-25
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Christian Nuenlist is foreign desk editor at the Swiss daily Aargauer Zeitung. He is the author of Kennedys rechte Hand (1999) and the coeditor of Origins of the European Security System (2008). Anna Locher is an independent historian and publicist. She is the author of NATO, de Gaulle, and the Future of the Alliance, 1963-1966 (2010) and the coeditor of Transforming NATO in the Cold War (2007). Garret Martin is editor at large with the European Institute, based in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Editors' Preface	p. vii
Introduction: De Galle and Gaullism in France's Cold War Foreign Policy	p. 1
Europe
De Gaulle, French Diplomacy, and Franco-Soviet Relations as Seen from Moscow	p. 25
A "Cordial Potentiality?" De Gaulle and the Franco-German Partnership, 1963-1969	p. 43
From Words to Actions: Reinterpreting de Gaulle's European Policy	p. 63
Transatlantia
NATO Strategies toward de Gaulle's France, 1958-1966: Learning to Cope	p. 85
Dealing with de Gaulle: The United States and France	p. 111
Britain, de Gaulle's NATO Policies, and Anglo-French Rivalry, 1963-1967	p. 135
Asia
The U.S. Escalation in Vietnam and de Gaulle's Secret Search for Peace, 1964-1966	p. 155
Seeking a Multipolar World: China and de Gaulle's France	p. 181
A Hot Summer: France, Israel, and the Middle East Crisis in 1958	p. 203
Africa and Latin America
"Je ne vous ai pas compris": De Gaulle's Decade of Negotiation with the Algerian FLN, 1958-1969	p. 225
De Gaulle and Sub-Saharan Africa: From Decolonization to French Development Policy, 1958-1963	p. 251
The Hero on the Latin American Scene	p. 271
Conclusion: A Gaullist Grand Strategy?	p. 291
Index	p. 309
About the Contributors	p. 315
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