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Unequal Partners French-German Relations, 1989-2000
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Julius W. Friend
Foreword by Simon Serfaty
Published with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.
Book Code: C7602
ISBN: 0-275-97602-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97602-6
152 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 11/30/2001
List Price: $95.00 (UK Sterling Price: £54.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback Ebook
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Series Title: The Washington Papers
Series Number: 180
Reviews:
  • Julius Friend's book takes over where his previous one published in 1991, The Linchpin: French-German Relations, 1950-1990, stops and analyzes in a concise fashion the fifty-year-old partnership, especially since German reunification, while providing an excellent condensed review of the history of the EU. The fact that a history of the EU can be undertaken from this angle is in itself a testimony to the strength of the Franco-German relationship.
    —German Studies Review     October 2002
Description: The reconciliation of France and Germany is a landmark in the history of the 20th century. Between 1870 and 1950, they fought three wars. Then, as founders of the European Community they became linked by increasingly close economic, political, and cultural ties. Friend asserts that it is no exaggeration to say that the French-German relationship has been central to the history of Western Europe in the second half of the 20th century. Friend provides a largely chronological account of the bilateral relation from the turbulence of unification through the years when an enlarged EU sought new institutions of governance. He then examines the basis of the Franco-German relationship today and looks to future changes. As Germany has become the economic giant of Europe, particularly after the reunification of West and East Germany, the relationship has changed, and Friend explores how this unequal but unavoidable partnership has adapted. An important guide for policy makers as well as scholars and students involved with contemporary European Studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Simon Serfaty
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Managing the Revolution of 1989
  • Moving toward Maastricht
  • Ratification Crises and the Varieties of Euroskepticism, 1993-1996
  • Pessimism and Disappointment, 1995-1997
  • New Men and Old Problems
  • Stumbling toward Enlargement
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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