Humanity's Soldier

France and International Security, 1919-2001
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-1-57181-893-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 686 g

Reihe: Contemporary France

French security policy has posed a puzzle to many people outside France, including politicians and even defense 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 often misinterpreted in the Anglo-Saxon world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chuter, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Political Truth and Symbolic Politics

Chapter 2. The Universal Mission

Chapter 3. Grandeur and Misery

Chapter 4. Errors Not to Be Repeated

Chapter 5. Death and the Soul

Chapter 6. The Far Side of Despair

Chapter 7. Weakness and Fear

Chapter 8. The Rebels and the Sovereign

Chapter 9. Charles the Great and the God-King

Conclusion: The past and the Future

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chuter, David
David Chuter works at the Ministry of Defence, London