Britain France And Europe 1945 1975

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Britain, France and Europe, 1945-1975 takes a fresh look at the international trajectories of Europe's premier democracies. The side-lining of Britain and France in the Cold War era, argues Adamthwaite, was preventable. A Franco-British Europe came within a whisker of realization. Condemning President Charles de Gaulle as an intransigent gatekeeper created a convenient alibi for self-inflicted missteps. UK bids for European Community membership ignored the elephant in the room - the need for partnership in a superpower age. A marriage powering the Community could have repositioned Western Europe as partner, not client of the United States. Although perceived as a failing power, France outperformed Britain - seizing the initiative in European construction, and winning primacy in western Europe. As well as exploring sharply contrasting national experiences in the aftermath of war, the author analyses the reasons for French success. The analysis evaluates key influences: the mental maps of decision makers; leadership styles; the post-1945 international system; policy making machinery; the 'democratic deficit' in British and French politics; and public opinion. Drawing on American, British and French official records, together with private papers and interviews, this enlightening study highlights the importance of contingency and individual actors, and will be of great interest to scholars of modern European history.

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Genre : History
Author : Anthony Adamthwaite
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release : 2020-05-28
File : 267 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781441129178


European Union Enlargement

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European Union Enlargement provides a comparative analysis of the post-war European policies of those states that joined the European Union between 1973 and 1995. The volume draws upon new empirical research in order to investigate the policies that these 'newcomer' states have had towards Europe since 1945, with an emphasis on their experience of membership and its possible Europeanising effect. A final comparative chapter draws the national European policies of the 'newcomers' together and outlines what they have brought to the EU. The book also tests integration theories against the available evidence, demonstrating their limited explanatory value and the economic, political and cultural specificity of different national paths towards EU integration.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Jurgen Elvert
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2004-08-02
File : 294 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781134323852


Britain France And Europe 1945 1975

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Britain, France and Europe, 1945-1975 takes a fresh look at the international trajectories of Europe's premier democracies. The side-lining of Britain and France in the Cold War era, argues Adamthwaite, was preventable. A Franco-British Europe came within a whisker of realization. Condemning President Charles de Gaulle as an intransigent gatekeeper created a convenient alibi for self-inflicted missteps. UK bids for European Community membership ignored the elephant in the room - the need for partnership in a superpower age. A marriage powering the Community could have repositioned Western Europe as partner, not client of the United States. Although perceived as a failing power, France outperformed Britain - seizing the initiative in European construction, and winning primacy in western Europe. As well as exploring sharply contrasting national experiences in the aftermath of war, the author analyses the reasons for French success. The analysis evaluates key influences: the mental maps of decision makers; leadership styles; the post-1945 international system; policy making machinery; the 'democratic deficit' in British and French politics; and public opinion. Drawing on American, British and French official records, together with private papers and interviews, this enlightening study highlights the importance of contingency and individual actors, and will be of great interest to scholars of modern European history.

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Genre : History
Author : Anthony Adamthwaite
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release : 2020-05-28
File : 267 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781441100627


Commercial Relations Of The United States With Foreign Countries

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Genre : Commerce
Author : United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
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Release : 1880
File : 946 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000055673839


Historical Abstracts

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Genre : History, Modern
Author : Eric H. Boehm
Publisher :
Release : 2000
File : 438 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015073568605


European Society In Upheaval

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Genre : History
Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Release : 1992
File : 472 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015008947437


Western European Adjustment To Structural Economic Problems

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Marie Josée Drouin
Publisher : Lanham, Md. : University Press of America
Release : 1987
File : 296 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015017655575


European Journal Of Political Research

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Genre : Political science
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Release : 1999
File : 582 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105022257385


The History Of Canada

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Genre : History
Author : Dwight La Vern Smith
Publisher : Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio Information Services
Release : 1983
File : 352 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105026047758


The Cold War And Defense

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This volume offers both a more balanced and more particularized approach to the Cold War than has yet been available. The contributors demonstrate that, contrary to prevailing views of the Cold War as primarily a struggle for supremacy between the two superpowers, the Cold War was not a single phenomenon. While the main protagonists were the United States and the Soviet Union, other nations brought their own histories to the events after World War II, and these experiences influenced the ways in which the Cold War was perceived by and affected each country.

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Genre : History
Author : Keith Neilson
Publisher : Praeger
Release : 1990-09-30
File : 224 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B4239536