TY - BOOK
T1 - France and the construction of Europe, 1944-2007
T2 - the geopolitical imperative
AU - Sutton, Michael J.
PY - 2007/12/9
Y1 - 2007/12/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - twentieth century
KW - France
KW - European Union
KW - twenty-first century
KW - European integration
KW - referendum
KW - constitutional treaty
M3 - Book
SN - 9781845453930
T3 - Monographs in French Studies
BT - France and the construction of Europe, 1944-2007
PB - Berghahn
CY - Oxford (UK)
ER -