France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence - Quarrels and Convergences During the Cold War and Beyond

The legacy of World War II and the division of Eastern and Western Europe produced a radical asymmetry, and a variety of misgivings and misunderstandings, in French and German experiences of the nuclear age. At the same time, however, political actors in both nations continually labored to reconcile their differences and engage in productive strategic dialogue. Grounded in cutting-edge research and freshly discovered archival sources, France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence teases out the paradoxical nuclear interactions between France and Germany from 1954 to the present day.

About the author

Nicolas Badalassi is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Institut d’Etudes politiques of Aix-en-Provence. His book publications include The CSCE and the End of the Cold War: Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990 (Berghahn Books, 2019, coedited with Sarah B. Snyder), and Reconstructing Europe 45 Years after Yalta: The Charter of Paris (1990) (CTHS, 2020, coedited with Jean-Philippe Dumas).

Frédéric Gloriant is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Centre de recherches en histoire internationale et atlantique of the University of Nantes. He obtained his doctorate in 2014 at Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) and worked from 2017 to 2018 as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Nuclear and Strategic Studies, École Normale Supérieure (Paris-Ulm).

Summary

Employs a multi-archival approach to the legacy of World War II and the bipolar division of Europe. The volume longitudinally covers the post-war, Cold War and post-Cold War eras and leads into the present day to focus on the history of Franco-German strategic and nuclear relations within an evolving Euro-Atlantic security architecture.

Product details

• Authors: Nicolas Badalassi, Nicolas Gloriant Badalassi, Frederic Gloriant
• Assisted by: Nicolas Badalassi (Editor), Frederic Gloriant (Editor), Frédéric Gloriant (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781800733251
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-325-1
• No. of pages: 364
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, France, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / France, Diplomacy, The Cold War, c 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period), Cold wars and proxy conflicts, History: 20th Century to Present