L'Europe et la prévention des crises et des conflits

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Ulrich Krotz

Ulrich Krotz's 'Flying Tiger' takes a relatively obscure episode - the joint Franco-German production of a very expensive military helicopter, the Tiger helicopter - to make a groundbreaking theoretical contribution to international relations scholarship.

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Walter D. Gray

Interpreting American Democracy in France is a study of the French savant, liberal, politician, and Americanist Edouard Laboulaye. Laboulaye, who was a professor at the College de France, is perhaps best known in America today as president of the Union Franco-Americaine, which raised funds in France for the Statute of Liberty. He was also well known to Americans in the nineteenth century, particularly for his staunch support of the Union in the American Civil War. He and his circle influenced French public opinion and were instrumental in preventing the government of Napoleon III from recognizing the Confederacy. After the Revolutions of 1848, the aftermath of which disillusioned him, a dominant theme in Laboulaye's writings was that America provided France with a model constitution that guaranteed individual liberties and a stable political system; it was his great hope that his country would follow this example. As France's leading Americanist, Laboulaye's energies were devoted to lectures on American history and politics and work on behalf of the North during the Civil War. He was also a translator of the works of those Americans for whom he had a special devotion: Franklin, Channing, and Mann. As a founding father of the Third Republic, Laboulaye drew great satisfaction from the fact that some principles drawn from the American political tradition were embodied in its constitutional laws. Additionally, Laboulaye was the first Frenchman to give a course on American history at a French university, and he later published a three-volume history of the United States, which stands as his masterpiece. He was a member of the liberal opposition to Napoleon III and after 1870 became active in the Third Republic, serving as deputy and later senator for life. In France Laboulaye is primarily known as a professor at the respected College de France, a position he maintained throughout his entire career, and as a member of the Institut de France. He was also president of the French Anti-Slavery Society. Laboulaye was, in fact, a savant of almost universal interests who held a place at the center of French intellectual life during the Second Empire and the early Third Republic. His bibliography, comprised of books, pamphlets, essays, children's stories, and articles, totals over two hundred entries. His final years as a senator for life were devoted in large part to a successful fundraising campaign for the Statute of Liberty, which he did not live to see erected in New York Harbor, and to carrying on the fight for political liberty as he envisioned it. . This book is based on extensive research into the unpublished papers of Laboulaye, which are still in his family's possession, and manuscripts in other depositories in France and the United States.

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Henri Vernet et Thomas Cantaloube

L'affaire irakienne révèle non seulement l'affrontement entre deux visions du monde : celle d'une France championne du camp de la paix contre celle d'une Amérique déterminée à vaincre le Mal. Mais surtout l'extraordinaire bras de fer entre deux personnages radicalement opposés : le Texan George W. Bush, croisé féru de la Bible, contre le Français Jacques Chirac en quête d'une place dans l'histoire et convaincu, comme son vieux pays, que les idées simples triomphent rarement. Au cœur des équipes au pouvoir à Paris et à Washington, heure par heure, piège après piège, coup bas après coup bas, Henri Vernet et Thomas Cantaloube restituent, grâce aux témoignages inédits des acteurs de cette dramatique -- entourages présidentiels, diplomates à l'ONU, agents des "services spéciaux "--, la chronique d'un conflit entre deux nations et entre deux hommes. On assiste aux dîners à la Maison Blanche et à l'Elysée, aux coups de téléphone entre Bush et Chirac, aux missions cachées des militaires français ... Voici les secrets de cette "autre guerre", qui marquera profondément et durablement les relations entre la France et les Etats-Unis. -- Back cover.

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Cynthia A. Watson

Nation-Building: A Reference Handbook offers an in-depth examination of the nation-building process with special focus on the late 20th century to the present. U.S. national security expert Cynthia Watson explores economic, political, and social aspects of nation-building and provides unique insight into hot issues and fundamental concerns.Presenting nation-building from many perspectives, Watson discusses states such as Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkan countries, and East Timor, among others. She illustrates the challenges of rebuilding a country's infrastructure as well as unanticipated problems. The work provides a thorough treatment of the role that democracy plays in the nation-building process and illuminates the position of the United States juxtaposed with UN peacekeeping efforts. This one-of-a-kind reference work is complete with primary source documents, biographical sketches, and resource suggestions.