A Certain Idea of France: French Security Policy and Gaullist Legacy

by Philip H. Gordon

As France begins to confront the new challenges of the post-Cold War era, the time has come to examine how French security policy has evolved since Charles de Gaulle set it on an independent course in the 1960s. Philip Gordon shows that the Gaullist model, contrary to widely held beliefs, has lived on--but that its inherent inconsistencies have grown more acute with increasing European unification, the diminishing American military role in Europe,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691086478
• ISBN13: 9780691086477
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 292 Pages