The Politics of Grandeur: Ideological Aspects of de Gaulle's Foreign Policy


The Politics of Grandeur: Ideological Aspects of de Gaulle's Foreign Policy
The Politics of Grandeur: Ideological Aspects of de Gaulle's Foreign Policy by Philip G. Cerny

De Gaulle was the first major Western leader to pursue a foreign policy designed consistently to break the vicious circle of the Cold War and the straitjacket of the nuclear balance of terror between Russia and the United States. At the same time, he sought to establish in France a new set of institutions designed to break another vicious circle: that of the divisive conflicts between French social groups and political parties, which led to weak governments and an ineffective state. This book studies the link between these two aims, both by examining de Gaulle's political aim

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