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This publication bargains novel views and insights into key issues of French overseas coverage within the de Gaulle years (1958-69). Globalizing learn at the principles and impression of le gZnZral, the volume's thirteen well-matched essays by way of top specialists within the box faucet into newly on hand documents, starting from Europe to the USA, Asia, Africa, and Latin the USA. the amount is the 1st to think again Charles de Gaulle's overseas regulations from an international perspective.

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But for Khrushchev, as for the diplomats at the MID and experts in the International Department of the Central Committee, the German menace was henceforth compounded by two other threats: “Atlanticism,” an expression referring to the military and political tutelage exercised by the United States over the Old Continent via the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and “Europeanism,” an expression designating the Communitarian process. For the USSR, in effect, the dynamism of both the Atlantic Alliance and the EEC tended to structure Western Europe and to organize it into a political, military, and economic bloc that distanced the USSR from a continent where it thought it had a “natural” right to be influential.

Cf. the heated debates that took place at the National Assembly on 13, 14 and April 20, 1966. ╇ For a precise and detailed description of this trip, see Rey, Tentation du Rapprochement, p. 427. ╇ The full declaration can be found in Les relations franco–soviétiques, 1965– 1976: documents et matériaux€(Paris–Moscow, Politizdat—La Documentation Française, 1976), p. 33. ╇ On the organization and the specifics of these arrangements, see Rey, La tentation du rapprochement, pp. 277–84. ╇ For a discussion of the balance sheet of de Gaulle’s East–West policies, see Frédéric Bozo, “France, ‘Gaullism,’ and the Cold War,” in Cambridge History of the Cold War, vol.

The two points of view were clearly not compatible. There were similar divisions on pan-Europeanism. For de Gaulle, panEuropean cooperation was meaningless unless it allowed the gradual loosening of the Soviet stranglehold over Eastern Europe. But, after the repression of Budapest in 1956 and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, there was no sign of a lightening of Soviet tutelage, far from it—which pushed the General to a less dilatory attitude to pan-Europeanism, which aggrieved the Soviets.

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