Description
French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940 outlines France's strategies for protection and appeasement during this period and places interwar relations in a larger European context.
This book examines:
* relationships with key countries such as Italy and Russia
* the significance of interwar France to 20th Century European integration
* the historical context of the policies
* the setbacks and defeats of the period and how they should be evaluated
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors, List of abbreviations, Introduction, 1 France at the Paris Peace Conference: addressing the dilemmas of security, 2 France and the politics of steel, from the Treaty of Versailles to the International Steel Entente, 1919窶�1926, 3 Raymond Poincaré and the Ruhr crisis, 4 Economics and Franco-Belgian relations in the inter-war period, 5 Reparations and war debts: the restoration of French financial power, 1919窶�1929, 6 Business as usual: the limits of French economic diplomacy, 1926窶�1933, 7 René Massigli and Germany, 1919窶�1938, 8 Franco-Italian relations in flux, 1918窶�1940, 9 In defence of the Maginot Line: security policy, domestic politics and the economic depression in France, 10 A douce and dextrous persuasion: French propaganda and Franco-American relations in the 1930s, 11 Daladier, Bonnet and the decision-making process during the Munich crisis, 1938, 12 Intelligence and the end of appeasement, 13 France and the phoney war, 1939窶�1940, Index
