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Re-creates French cabinet meetings and communications between Mitterrand and George H. W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, Helmut Kohl, Margaret Thatcher, and other world leaders.
Shows the decisive role that France played in the orchestration of German reunification.
Reshapes our understanding of Germany's reunification,
the end of the Cold war and the construction of a New Europe
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European bloc, the reunification of Germany was a major episode in the history of modern Europe — and one widely held to have been opposed by that country's centuries-old enemy, France. But while it has been previously believed that French President François Mitterrand played a negative role in events leading up to reunification, this book shows that Mitterrand's main concern was not the potential threat of an old nemesis but rather that a reunified Germany be firmly anchored in a unified Europe.
Updated with a new introduction and other materials, the book blends primary research and interviews with key actors in France and Germany to take readers behind the scenes of world governments as a new Europe was formed. Tilo Schabert had unprecedented, exclusive access to French presidential archives and here focuses on French diplomacy not only to dispel the notion that Mitterrand was reluctant to accept reunification but also to show how successful he was in bringing it about.
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- Jean Musitelli, Diplomat and former Spokesman for President François Mitterrand (1991-1995)
Authors and Affiliations
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Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Baierbrunn, Germany
Tilo Schabert
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: France and the Reunification of Germany
Book Subtitle: Leadership in the Workshop of World Politics
Authors: Tilo Schabert
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80763-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80762-7Published: 13 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80765-8Published: 14 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80763-4Published: 12 October 2021
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XX, 459
Additional Information: Originally published with the title: How World Politics is Made: France and the Reunification of Germany by University of Missouri Press, Columbia (MO), 2009
Topics: Diplomacy, International Relations Theory, Political History, European Politics, European History