Introduction: De Gaulle and Gaullism in France's Cold War foreign policy / Mark Kramer -- De Gaulle, French diplomacy, and Franco-Soviet relations as seen from Moscow / Marie-Pierre Rey -- A "cordial potentiality?" : de Gaulle and the Franco-German partnership, 1963-1969 / Carine Germond -- From words to actions : reinterpreting de Gaulle's European policy / Piers Ludlow -- NATO strategies toward de Gaulle's France, 1958-1966 : learning to cope / Anna Locher and Christian Nuenlist -- Dealing with de Gaulle : the United States and France / Carolyne Davidson -- Britain, de Gaulle's NATO policies, and Anglo-French rivalry, 1963-1967 / James Ellison -- The U.S. escalation in Vietnam and de Gaulle's secret search for peace, 1964-1966 / Yuko Torikata -- Seeking a multipolar world : China and de Gaulle's France / Qiang Zhai -- A hot summer : France, Israel, and the Middle East crisis in 1958 / Gadi Heimann -- "Je ne vous ai pas compris" : de Gaulle's decade of negotiation with the Algerian FLN, 1958-1969 / Jeffrey James Byrne -- De Gaulle and Sub-Saharan Africa : from decolonization to French development policy, 1958-1963 / Guia Migani -- The hero on the Latin American scene / Joaquín Fermandois -- Conclusion: A Gaullist grand strategy? / Garret Martin.
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"This is a superb volume on postwar France: well written, thoroughly researched, and based in part on new archival material. It is centered on the person of Charles de Gaulle, whose aims and moves, though sometimes based on an effect of surprise, seem less mysterious in retrospect than they appeared at the time to Anglo-American leaders largely unable to comprehend, or accept, a resurrection of. Nance that bore the ineluctable stamp of the general."ùCHARLES G. COGAN, Harvard University.
"This volume is a welcome addition to the literature on the diplomacy of President Charles de Gaulle. Its contributors explore de Gaulle's foreign policies throughout the 1960s in their various international ramifications. Based on recent historiography, the book appropriately seeks to move beyond the 'Gaullist' orthodoxy (or mythology) as well as the systematic rejection (or denunciation) that has long characterized 'Anglo-Saxon' appraisals."ùFR+D+RIC BOZO, University of Paris III-Sorbonne.
French President Charles de Gaulle's towering personality and his challenge to U.S. hegemony in the Cold War have inspired a vast number of political biographies and analyses of the foreign policies of the Fifth Republic mostly from a French or U.S. angle. This book serves to rediscover de Gaulle's global policies and how they changed the Cold War. Offering truly global perspectives on France's approach to the world during de Gaulle's presidency, the thirteen well-matched essays by leading experts in the field tap into newly available sources from U.S., European, Asian, African, and Latin American archives. Together, the contributions integrate previously neglected regions, actors, and topics with more familiar and newly approached phenomena into a global picture of de Gaulle's foreign policy. --Book Jacket.