France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007 The Geopolitical Imperative [Hardcover]

In the second half of the twentieth century France played the greatest role - even greater than Germanys - in shaping what eventually became the European Union. By the early twenty-first century, however, in a hugely transformed Europe, this era had patently come to an end. This comprehensive history shows how France coupled the pursuit of power and the furtherance of European integration over a sixty-year period, from the close of the Second World War to the hesitation caused by the French electorates referendum rejection of the European Unions constitutional treaty in 2005.

Preface
Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction:De Gaulles Shadow

PART I: THE POST-WAR ASSERTION OF LEADERSHIP IN CONTINENTAL WESTERN EUROPE

Chapter 1. Before the Schuman Plan

• Earlier Calls for European Union
• The Quest for Security and the Onset of the Cold War
• Western European Economic and Political Cooperation
• Wariness about the New West Germany

Chapter 2. Pooling Coal and Steel

• The Monnet Initiative
• The Schuman Declaration
• Forging the ECSC Treaty
• Ratification and Implementation

Chapter 3. German Rearmament and Military Security

• The Pleven Plan
• The Rejection of the EDC Treaty
• The Paris Accords
• The Suez Crisis and its Aftermath

Chapter 4. The Gaullist Vision of the Atlantic Alliance and European Union

• Adenauer, the US, and the Berlin Crisis
• The Failure of the Fouchet Committee
• A Rose and a Rose Garden
• Tous Azimuts and the Limits of D?tente

PART II: THE COMMON MARKET AND THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY

Chapter 5. The Benelux Initiative and the Formation of the Common Market

• Messina to Venice
• Negotiating the EEC and Euratom