Defence and Dissent in Contemporary France

This book, first published in 1984, examines France's independent nuclear weapons programme of the 1980s alongside the French peace movement, which was almost totally absent - in contrast to the peace protests of the US and the rest of Europe.

List of contents

Introduction: Defence, Dissent and the French Political Culture Jolyon Howorth and Patricia Chilton Part 1. Defence Policies in Post-War France 1. Defence Policy: the Historical Context Neville Waites 2. Gaullism, Nuclear Weapons and the State Philip G. Cerny 3. The Parties and the Nuclear Consensus David Hanley 4. Defence and the Mitterrand Government Jolyon Howorth 5. French Nuclear Weapons Patricia Chilton Part 2. Voices of Dissent 6. French Defence: A Military Critique Admiral Antoine Sanguinetti 7. The Rebirth of a Peace Movement Claude Bourdet 8. Peace Organisations in France Today Christian Mellon 9. Ecologists and the Bomb Tony Chafer 10. The New Left and Defence: Out of the Ghetto? Vladimir Claude Fišera Postface: France and the European Peace Movement E.P. Thompson

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Jolyon Howorth and Patricia Chilton

Summary

This book, first published in 1984, examines France’s independent nuclear weapons programme of the 1980s alongside the French peace movement, which was almost totally absent – in contrast to the peace protests of the US and the rest of Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Chilton, Jolyon Howorth, Jolyon Chilton Howorth, Howorth Jolyon
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2023
• EAN: 9781032037936
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3203793-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Political Protest
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Pressure groups & lobbying