French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940 - The Decline and Fall of a Great Power

List of contents

Notes on contributors, List of abbreviations, Introduction, 1 France at the Paris Peace Conference: addressing the dilemmas of security, 2 France and the politics of steel, from the Treaty of Versailles to the International Steel Entente, 1919–1926, 3 Raymond Poincaré and the Ruhr crisis, 4 Economics and Franco-Belgian relations in the inter-war period, 5 Reparations and war debts: the restoration of French financial power, 1919–1929, 6 Business as usual: the limits of French economic diplomacy, 1926–1933, 7 René Massigli and Germany, 1919–1938, 8 Franco-Italian relations in flux, 1918–1940, 9 In defence of the Maginot Line: security policy, domestic politics and the economic depression in France, 10 A douce and dextrous persuasion: French propaganda and Franco-American relations in the 1930s, 11 Daladier, Bonnet and the decision-making process during the Munich crisis, 1938, 12 Intelligence and the end of appeasement, 13 France and the phoney war, 1939–1940, Index

Summary

With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this book examines France's strategies for protection against Germany and appeasement during this period, and places interwar relations in a larger European context.

Product details

• Assisted by: Robert Boyce (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.1998
• EAN: 9780415150392
• ISBN: 978-0-415-15039-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Weight: 720 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Military Policy, International Relations, Defence strategy, planning & research, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Military and defence strategy, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies