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Zusatztext 68804358 Informationen zum Autor Michael Sutton is Professor Emeritus, Modern History and International Relations, at Aston University. He has written regularly on France for The Economist Intelligence Unit - part of The Economist newspaper group - since 1985, and worked in Brussels from 1973 to 1993 monitoring European Community developments. He is also a specialist in twentieth-century French political thought and philosophy. Klappentext In the second half of the twentieth century France played the greatest role - even greater than Germany's - in shaping what eventually became the European Union. By the early twenty-first century, however, in a hugely transformed Europe, this era had patently come to an end. This comprehensive history shows how France coupled the pursuit of power and the furtherance of European integration over a sixty-year period, from the close of the Second World War to the hesitation caused by the French electorate's referendum rejection of the European Union's constitutional treaty in 2005. Zusammenfassung In the second half of the twentieth century France played a great role in shaping the European Union. By the early twenty-first century, however, in a hugely transformed Europe, this era had patently come to an end. This book shows how France coupled the pursuit of power and the furtherance of European integration over a sixty-year period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction: De Gaulle's Shadow PART I: THE POST-WAR ASSERTION OF LEADERSHIP IN CONTINENTAL WESTERN EUROPE Chapter 1. Before the Schuman Plan Earlier Calls for European Union The Quest for Security and the Onset of the Cold War Western European Economic and Political Cooperation Wariness about the New West Germany Chapter 2. Pooling Coal and Steel The Monnet Initiative The Schuman Declaration Forging the ECSC Treaty Ratification and Implementation Chapter 3. German Rearmament and Military Security The Pleven Plan The Rejection of the EDC Treaty The Paris Accords The Suez Crisis and its Aftermath Chapter 4. The Gaullist Vision of the Atlantic Alliance and European Union Adenauer, the US, and the Berlin Crisis The Failure of the Fouchet Committee A Rose and a Rose Garden 'Tous Azimuts' and the Limits of Détente PART II: THE COMMON MARKET AND THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY Chapter 5. The Benelux Initiative and the Formation of the Common Market Messina to Venice Negotiating the EEC and Euratom De Gaulle's 'Practising the Common Market' Securing Agricultural Interests Chapter 6. Moving from Dirigisme to Qualified Economic Liberalism The Watering Down of Post-war Dirigisme Delors and the Single Market The Reorientation of Foreign Trade Globalisation and French Hesitations PART III: PRESERVING POWER AND SECURITY AFTER DE GAULLE Chapter 7. European Political Integration up to the Cold War's Close The Rapprochement with Albion Echoes of the Fouchet Proposals America's 'Year of Europe' and the Atlantic Alliance Back to the Elysée Treaty Chapter 8. Opposition to German Monetary Hegemony The Death of the Bretton Woods System The Deutsche Mark as Anchor Currency The EMS and its Ambivalent Design The Dictates of the ERM and French Dissatisfaction Chapter 9. Geopolitical Upheaval and the Maastricht Treaty Monetary Union Proposed from Paris and Bonn France and the Fall of the Berlin Wall The Drive for German Unification Providing a Treaty for European Union Chapter 10. Post-Yalta and Post-Maastricht Europe Implementing EMU and 'La Pensée Uni...
