Humanity's Soldier: France and International Security, 1919-2001French security policy has posed a puzzle to many people outside France, including politicians and even defence specialists such as the author, who took time off from his administrative position in Whitehall in order to study French thinking about security in detail. As with many other studies, he takes as his point of departure the traumatic defeat of 1940 but argues that the origins of current French policy are grounded in events and ideas that go back hundreds of years. They are ideas that are scarcely known or misinterpreted in the Anglo-Saxon world. Even de Gaulle was not an aberration from these old traditions and aspirations but rather a particularly effective exponent of them. Only an awareness of these historical roots of current concepts and assumptions will enable the foreign observer to understand what motivates French diplomats, civil servants, military officers, academics and even journalists and businessmen who all shape public, and hence also official, opinion in the area of defence and security. |
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Contents
The Universal Mission 13 328 | 13 |
Grandeur and Misery | 52 |
Errors Not to Be Repeated I | 83 |
Errors Not to Be Repeated II | 114 |
Death in the Soul | 149 |
The Far Side of Despair | 183 |
Weakness and Fear | 214 |
The Rebels and the Sovereign | 254 |
Charles the Great and the GodKing | 296 |
The Past and the Present | 338 |
Select Bibliography | 346 |
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Humanity's Soldier: France and International Security, 1919-2001 David Chuter No preview available - 1996 |
Humanity's Soldier: France and International Security, 1919-2001 David Chuter No preview available - 1996 |
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References to this book
France, NATO and the Limits of Independence, 1981-97: The Politics of ... Anand Menon No preview available - 2000 |
International Crisis Management: The Approach of European States Marc Houben No preview available - 2004 |