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Author Gordon, Phillip H

Title A Certain Idea of France : French Security Policy and Gaullist Legacy
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents
Summary As France begins to confront the new challenges of the post-Cold War era, the time has come to examine how French security policy has evolved since Charles de Gaulle set it on an independent course in the 1960s. Philip Gordon shows that the Gaullist model, contrary to widely held beliefs, has lived on--but that its inherent inconsistencies have grown more acute with increasing European unification, the diminishing American military role in Europe, and related strains on French military budgets. The question today is whether the Gaullist legacy will enable a strong and confident France to play
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Subject Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970 -- Influence
Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970 -- Military leadership
SUBJECT Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970 fast
Subject Cold War.
Command of troops
Diplomatic relations
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
International relations
Military policy
SUBJECT France -- Foreign relations -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004188
France -- Military policy
France -- Relations -- Europe
Europe -- Relations -- France
Subject Europe
France
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400820917
140082091X