by Ulrich Krotz, Joachim Schild (2013)
"France and Germany have played a pivotal role in the history and politics of European integration. Yet, paradoxically, a study that systematically investigates the interrelated reality of Franco-German bilateralism and multilateral European integration has been conspicuously lacking. Formulating an approach the authors call "embedded bilateralism", this book offers exactly that. It scrutinizes in empirical and historical detail the bilateral Franco-German order and France and Germany's joint role in shaping Europe over the past half century.^ The book addresses two key questions regarding France and Germany in Europe from the Elysee Treaty to the twenty-first century: Why have France and Germany continued to hang together in an especially tight relationship for over five decades amidst frequently dramatic domestic change, lasting differences, and fundamental international transformation? And why has the joint Franco-German impact on shaping Europe's polity and European policies, while fundamental, proved so uneven across political domains and time? In answer to the first question, Shaping Europe argues that the actions and practices of the Franco-German order-its regularized bilateral intergovernmentalism, symbolic acts and practices, and parapublic underpinnings-together have rendered this bilateral connection historically resilient and politically adaptable.^ Regarding the second question, the book holds that different combinations of a limited number of factors located at the bilateral, domestic, regional European, and international levels explain central aspects of variation. Together, these factors condition and modulate France and Germany's joint impact on Europe. In pursuing its research questions, theoretical work, historical reconstructions, and empirical analyses, Shaping Europe fruitfully combines the study of European integration, EU politics and policymaking, Franco-German affairs, and French and German politics with general theorizing and conceptual grounding in international relations and political science."--Publisher's website.
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.
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.
Paul Dukes
"At the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament and on Pacific and Far Eastern Questions of 1921-1922, hosted by President Harding, the USA established predominance over Britain and its empire, France and Japan in a series of treaties limiting the size of the world's major navies and aiming at stability throughout the Pacific as well as on the Asiatic mainland. Meanwhile, 'Uninvited Russia' was attempting to establish its hold on the former Tsarist lands, partly through the stratagem of the Far East Republic used against Japanese intervention. In 1922, Soviet power was consolidated in the creation of the USSR." "The USA in the Making of the USSR will show the importance of the 'Russian question' at the Washington Conference and throw light on the emergence of the 'Versailles-Washington' system of international relations."--Jacket.
Jean Le Borgne
"Il est à peine besoin de rappeler l'attachement de la Nouvelle-Calédonie à la France", écrivait à son ministre, en 1963, le gouverneur Biros. A Koumac, en 1979, le jour de l'anniversaire de la prise de possession de la Nouvelle-Calédonie par la France, le drapeau français était foulé aux pieds par les manifestants. En 1984, à Thio, il sera brûlé. Entre 1963 et ces événements, une vingtaine d'années se sont écoulées. Comment, en si peu de temps, un peuple a-t-il pu passer de la loyauté la plus exemplaire à l'insurrection et à la sécession ?