France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence

Quarrels and Convergences during the Cold War and Beyond

Nicolas Badalassi, Frédéric Gloriant (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

364 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-325-1 (ISBN)

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Employs a multi-archival approach to the legacy of World War II and the bipolar division of Europe. The volume longitudinally covers the post-war, Cold War and post-Cold War eras and leads into the present day to focus on the history of Franco-German strategic and nuclear relations within an evolving Euro-Atlantic security architecture.

The legacy of World War II and the division of Eastern and Western Europe produced a radical asymmetry, and a variety of misgivings and misunderstandings, in French and German experiences of the nuclear age. At the same time, however, political actors in both nations continually labored to reconcile their differences and engage in productive strategic dialogue. Grounded in cutting-edge research and freshly discovered archival sources, France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence teases out the paradoxical nuclear interactions between France and Germany from 1954 to the present day.

Nicolas Badalassi is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Institut d’Etudes politiques of Aix-en-Provence. His book publications include The CSCE and the End of the Cold War: Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990 (Berghahn Books, 2019, coedited with Sarah B. Snyder), and Reconstructing Europe 45 Years after Yalta: The Charter of Paris (1990) (CTHS, 2020, coedited with Jean-Philippe Dumas).

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Introduction

Nicolas Badalassi and Frédéric Gloriant

Part I: From the Beginning of the Franco-German Strategic Dialogue to the Nuclear Ambiguities of the ‘Adenauer/de Gaulle’ Era

Chapter 1. Raymond Aron, Germany and the Atomic Bomb

Joël Mouric

Chapter 2. France and the Abandoned Dream of a European Bomb, 1954–1958

Jenny Raflik

Chaper 3. From Bonn to Valhalla? West German Nuclear Ambitions, France, and U.S. Nuclear Assistance, 1960–1963

Andreas Lutsch

Chapter 4. De Gaulle’s Nuclear Policy, West Germany and the Second Berlin Crisis: A Historiographical Reappraisal, 1958–1963

Frédéric Gloriant

Part II: Ostpolitik and the Franco-German Nuclear Relations in the 1970s

Chapter 5. ‘Military Cooperation Is Not in Itself an Instrument of Progress’: The Role of the French Nuclear Deterrent in Early Concepts of Ostpolitik

Benedikt Schoenborn

Chapter 6. Implicit Convergence? Franco-German Relations, European Security and Nuclear Cooperation in the Era of Ostpolitik, 1969–1974

Nicolas Badalassi

Chapter 7. French Deterrence, the Defence of Europe and the German Question, 1975–1983

Ilaria Parisi

Part III: The ‘Mitterrand/Kohl’ Era and the End of the Cold War

Chapter 8. Evolution of the French Nuclear Strategy towards Germany during Mitterrand’s Presidency

Dominique Mongin

Chapter 9. France and the FRG during the 1980s: When Strategic Questions Became Political Debates

Yannick Pincé

Chapter 10. ‘Not a Nuclear Switzerland’: France’s Deterrent Posture and the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1980s

Frédéric Bozo

Part IV: Nuclear Uncertainties in the Post-Cold War Era

Chapter 11. France, Germany and Nuclear Deterrence Since the End of the Cold War: From Estrangement to Rapprochement?

Guillaume de Rougé

Chapter 12. Walking Together in Different Directions: Prospects for French-German Cooperation on Nuclear Deterrence and Arms Control after the End of the Cold War

Oliver Meier

Appendix: Figures of the French Nuclear Arsenal and of the U.S. Nuclear Warheads Deployed in NATO-Europe

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.12.2021
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-80073-325-9 / 1800733259
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-325-1 / 9781800733251
Zustand	Neuware