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Anglo-French relations, 1958-1963 :

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TLets324617

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Anglo-French relations, 1958-1963 :

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Nielsen, Steen Aage.

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a study of great power rivalry with special reference to NATO and Europe.

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London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2000

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

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London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)

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2000

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This thesis is the study of Great Power nvaliy during 1958-1963, a period of bothincreasing political and economic cooperation in Western Europe and transatlanticrelations within NATO against a background of the Cold War France and Britain are thefocus of our analysis. The two states show the same characteristics in this period: Bothpowers had come out of World War H as victors and, despite having been muchweakened by the war, had won an international status a Great Powers thanks to apermanent seat in the United Nations Security Council. They were both colonial powerstiying to adjust to a new world order based on East-West bipolarity and the dominationof the two super-powers. Against a background of international decline from pre-warpower, both France and Britain were looking for new ways to secure their rank andinternational influence through both NATO and the EEC, while trying to adapt to achanged bi-polar and post-colonial world order.NATO and Europe are therefore the main issue area of this thesis, which isstructured as a series of studies into the main areas of Anglo-French rivalry in the aboveperiod. We show that the real reasons for failed negotiations - whether over the FreeTrade Area, tripartism in NATO, or British membership of the EEC - are to be found inGreat Power rivahy for a leading place in Europe. We thus contend that Anglo-Frenchpolitical rivalry ultimately led to a breakdown of negotiations, rather than any of thenegotiations themselves breaking down, and that NATO affairs and European affairs wereclosely linked. Each state failed to accept the other within its respective sphere ofinfluence, since each had mutually exclusive interests, a factor which in the end, despitesincere efforts in both Paris and London, wrecked Anglo-French cooperation on Europeand NATO and thus prevented the two states from working together on restoring theirdeclining international rank.

Cold War; Britain; France; Post-colonial; USA

Nielsen, Steen Aage.

London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)

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