Contesting France - Intelligence and Us Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War

Informationen zum Autor Susan McCall Perlman is Professor of History and Intelligence Studies at the National Intelligence University. She has published widely on US foreign relations and intelligence and is the 2020 recipient of the Robert Beland Excellence in Teaching Award. Klappentext Contesting France reveals the untold role of intelligence in shaping American perceptions of and policy toward France between 1944 and 1947, a critical period of the early Cold War when many feared that French communists were poised to seize power. In doing so, it exposes the prevailing narrative of French unreliability, weakness, and communist intrigue apparent in diplomatic dispatches and intelligence reports sent to the White House as both overblown and deeply contested. Likewise, it shows that local political factions, French intelligence and government of¿cials, colonial of¿cers, and various trans-national actors in imperial outposts and in the metropole sought access to US intelligence of¿cials in a deliberate effort to shape US policy for their own political postwar agendas. Using extensive archival research in the United States and France, Susan McCall Perlman sheds new light on the nexus between intelligence and policymaking in the immediate postwar era. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Abbreviations in text; Abbreviations in notes; Introduction; 1. Liberation; 2. Civil war; 3. Restoration; 4. March to power; 5. L'Evénement; Conclusion: How intelligence becomes policy; Notes; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Susan McCall Perlman, Susan Mccall (National Intelligence Unive Perlman, Susan McCall (National Intelligence University) Perlman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781316511817
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51181-7
• No. of pages: 275
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Us Foreig; Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, HISTORY / World, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, General & world history, Second World War, General and world history, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General