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| 10211. FRENCH-GERMAN RELATIONS AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION. This paper investigates the Franco-German alliance since World War II, focusing on the bilateral relationship in the context of greater European economic and political integration from 1949 to the present. The high and low-water marks of the relationship -- the formation of the European Coal and Steel Community, the aborted European Defence Community, the 1963 Franco-German Friendship Treaty, the French rejection of British membership in the EEC under DeGaulle, the German preoccupation with Ostpolitik, the controversy over the Common Agricultural Policy, the long-awaited development of the European Monetary System, and the lingering issue of German reunification -- are discussed and analyzed. The conclusion speculates on the future of the alliance in the context of European integration with a view towards declining superpower hegemony and the recent reunification of East and West Germany. 40p. 88f. 37b. |
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