France and the German question, 1945-1990 / edited by Frederic Bozo and Christian Wenkel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bozo, édéric

Contributor:

Bozo, Frédéric, editor.

Wenkel, Christian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

German reunification question (1949-1990).

France--Foreign relations--Germany.

France.

Germany--Foreign relations--France.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2019.

Summary:

In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, the victors were unable to agree on Germany’s fate, and the separation of the country—the result of the nascent Cold War—emerged as a de facto, if provisional, settlement. Yet East and West Germany would exist apart for half a century, making the "German question" a central foreign policy issue—and given the war-torn history between the two countries, this was felt no more keenly than in France. Drawing on the most recent historiography and previously untapped archival sources, this volume shows how France’s approach to the German question was, for the duration of the Cold War, both more constructive and consequential than has been previously acknowledged.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I. From Capitulation To Cooperation

1. France and the German Question, 1945−1949: On the Interdependence of Historiography, Methodology, and Interpretations

2. Economic and Industrial Issues in France’s Approach to the German Question in the Postwar Period

Part II. The Emergence Of The Bloc System

3. France, German Rearmament, and the German Question, 1945–1955

4. Impossible Allies? Soviet Views of France and the German Question in the 1950s

Part III. The De Gaulle Factor

5. An Arbiter between the Superpowers: Charles de Gaulle and the German Question, 1958–1969

6. The German Question in the Eastern Policies of France and Germany in the 1960s

Part IV. The Era Of Ostpolitik

7. Perceptions of Ostpolitik: French–West German Relations and the Evolving German Question under Willy Brandt and Georges Pompidou

8. France, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the German Question

9. The Economic and Monetary Dimensions of the German Question: A French Perspective, 1969–1979

Part V. The End Game

10. The French “Obsession” with the German Question: Willy Brandt, François Mitterrand, the German Question, and German Unifi cation, 1981–1990

11. All About Europe? France, Great Britain, and the Question of German Unification, 1989–1990

12. Franco-Soviet Relations, German Unification, and the End of the Cold War

Part VI. Enduring Concerns: Anschluss, Borders, And The Two Germanys

13. Toward a New Anschluss? France and the German and Austrian Questions, 1945−1955

14. France, Poland, and Germany’s Eastern Border, 1945–1990: Th e Recurrent Issue of the German Question in French-Polish Relations

15. A Surprising Continuity: Th e French Attitude and Policy toward the German Democratic Republic, 1949–1990

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-858-0

1-78920-227-2