John F V Keiger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4862310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John F V Keiger |
| GIVEN NAMES | John F V |
| FAMILY NAME | Keiger |
| SIGNATURE | KEIGER J F V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Marianne Is Watching: Intelligence, Counterintelligence and the Origins of the French Surveillance State by Deborah Bauer
The conclusion (“epilogue”) to this volume about the history of French intelligence from the Franco-Prussian War to the outbreak of World War I opens with a novel idea: “On July 28, 1914 in support of her ally Russia, France declared war on Germany” (255). To say the least, that an academic historian and author should misconstrue who declared war on whom in the seminal conflict of the twentieth century is concerning. If history had been as Bauer …
L’Europe était-elle asymétrique en 1930 ? Une ébauche d’évaluation à travers le plan Briand d’Union Fédérale Européenne
L’Europe qui existait une décennie après le Traité de Versailles était-elle un système international asymétrique ? Un questionnaire adressé par la France, mandaté par la SDN, à 26 États européens concernant le Plan Briand, sert de sondage d’opinion sur l’état de l’Europe en 1930. Il révèle des différences à géométrie variable entre groupes d’États selon qu’il s’agit de politique, d’économie ou de relations internationales. Mais la différence fond…
Sir Edward Grey, France, and the Entente: How to Catch the Perfect Angler
This article will focus on the nine-year relationship between British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey and the French Ambassador at London Paul Cambon, principally during the years 1912 to 1914. It will show how the French perceived Sir Edward Grey himself, his foreign policy, and his understanding of the Entente. It will analyse the means by which Cambon in particular, and through him the French in general, sought to coax from the Foreign Secre…
Beyond the Balance of Power: France and the Politics of National Security in the Era of the First World War, by Peter Jackson
Journal Article Beyond the Balance of Power: France and the Politics of National Security in the Era of the First World War, by Peter Jackson Get access Beyond the Balance of Power: France and the Politics of National Security in the Era of the First World War, by Peter Jackson (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2013; pp. xv + 559. £70). J.F.V. Keiger J.F.V. Keiger University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
The Fischer Controversy, the War Origins Debate and France: A Non-History
The controversy that followed publication in 1961 of Fritz Fischer’s Griff nach der Weltmacht was not restricted to West Germany. Even if the Fischer debate abroad did not acquire the vehemence it took on domestically, intellectually the effect was powerful. This article will demonstrate that France was potentially a most propitious terrain for the Fischer controversy to spread. Yet for a variety of reasons, largely to do with the nature of histo…
France and the Algerian War, 1954-1962: Strategy, Operations and Diplomacy
The French Army's war in Algeria has always aroused passions. This book does not whitewash the atrocities committed by both sides; rather it focuses on the conflict itself, a perspective assisted by the French republic's official admission in 1999 that what happened in Algeria was indeed a war
Wielding Finance as a Weapon of Diplomacy: France and Britain in the 1920s
France has long conceived of finance as a weapon of diplomacy. The role of French finance in sealing the Franco-Russian Alliance in 1892 is well known; the Quai d'Orsay's use of access to the Paris financial markets and the Paris Bourse as an instrument of foreign policy before the First World War was the subject of much research in the early 1970s. However, the use of currency and credit manipulation as a diplomatic weapon and a lever of power h…
The ‘Novelty’ of Sarkozy's Foreign Policy Towards Nato and the US: The Long View
Nicolas Sarkozy's reintegration of NATO's military command in 2009 has been presented as radical, given the traditional Gaullist stance of an arm's length relationship with NATO and the US. This article argues first, the difficulty for any French political leader to alter radically the course of French foreign and defence policy; second, that Sarkozy’ policy is merely conforming to a longer-term trend of negotiating between European and Atlantic …
Limiting arms, enforcing limits: International inspections and the challenges of compellance in Germany post-1919, Iraq post-1991
This article compares efforts to curb German military power after 1919 with attempts to limit that of Iraq after 1991. It argues that incomplete defeat in each case, compounded by disputes among the victors (exploited by the Germans and Iraqis) undermined a long-term maintenance of each settlement. UNSCOM's problems in Iraq in the 1990s replicated much of what had hamstrung the IMCC in Germany in the 1920s. Crucial was the lack of autonomous inte…
Enforcing arms limits: Germany post 1919; Iraq post 1991 introduction
France and the World since 1870
Anti-War Activists
Our English friends from Salford and Portsmouth should be congratulated on their decision to meddle in matters of internal conflict in French history, of internal conflict in Algerian history and of conflict between French and Algerians. There are times when it is important for matters to be looked at afresh from a different viewpoint. From my own experience working in universities, I know that a university needs someone to come from outside to o…
France and the Algerian War: Strategy, operations and diplomacy
France's war in Algeria from 1954–62 has prompted new historical research and political polemics since 1992. Access to French archives, along with publication of memoirs and collections of letters by conscript troops, has permitted fresh social, cultural and literary perspectives, and new insights about the memory of this war in France and Algeria. The war's strategies and military operations, however, have been neglected. Yet these aspects illum…
The Algerian War and the French Army, 1954-62: Experiences, Images, Testimonies
The Algerian War 1954-62 was one of the most prolonged and violent examples of decolonization. At times horribly savage, it was an undeclared war in the sense that no formal declaration of hostilities was ever made. Bringing to an end one hundred and thirty two years of French rule, the Algerian struggle caused the fall of six French prime ministers, the collapse of the Fourth Republic and expulsion of one million French settlers. This volume, br…
France and international relations in the post‐Cold War era: Some lessons of the past
Jules Cambon and Franco-German Détente, 1907–1914
Improved Franco-German relations are rarely associated with the years preceding the Great War or with the policies of Raymond Poincaré. Yet from 1907 to 1914 a persistent attempt was made to bring about détente between Paris and Berlin, which eventually led to the French president adopting a conciliatory attitude towards Germany, occasionally at the expense of relations with Russia. The instigator of this policy was the French ambassador in Berli…
France and the Algerian War: Strategy, operations and diplomacy
France's war in Algeria from 1954–62 has prompted new historical research and political polemics since 1992. Access to French archives, along with publication of memoirs and collections of letters by conscript troops, has permitted fresh social, cultural and literary perspectives, and new insights about the memory of this war in France and Algeria. The war's strategies and military operations, however, have been neglected. Yet these aspects illum…
The Fischer Controversy, the War Origins Debate and France: A Non-History
The controversy that followed publication in 1961 of Fritz Fischer’s Griff nach der Weltmacht was not restricted to West Germany. Even if the Fischer debate abroad did not acquire the vehemence it took on domestically, intellectually the effect was powerful. This article will demonstrate that France was potentially a most propitious terrain for the Fischer controversy to spread. Yet for a variety of reasons, largely to do with the nature of histo…
France and the Algerian War, 1954-1962: Strategy, Operations and Diplomacy
The French Army's war in Algeria has always aroused passions. This book does not whitewash the atrocities committed by both sides; rather it focuses on the conflict itself, a perspective assisted by the French republic's official admission in 1999 that what happened in Algeria was indeed a war
Sir Edward Grey, France, and the Entente: How to Catch the Perfect Angler
This article will focus on the nine-year relationship between British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey and the French Ambassador at London Paul Cambon, principally during the years 1912 to 1914. It will show how the French perceived Sir Edward Grey himself, his foreign policy, and his understanding of the Entente. It will analyse the means by which Cambon in particular, and through him the French in general, sought to coax from the Foreign Secre…
Jules Cambon and Franco-German Détente, 1907–1914
Improved Franco-German relations are rarely associated with the years preceding the Great War or with the policies of Raymond Poincaré. Yet from 1907 to 1914 a persistent attempt was made to bring about détente between Paris and Berlin, which eventually led to the French president adopting a conciliatory attitude towards Germany, occasionally at the expense of relations with Russia. The instigator of this policy was the French ambassador in Berli…
France and international relations in the post‐Cold War era: Some lessons of the past
Anti-War Activists
Our English friends from Salford and Portsmouth should be congratulated on their decision to meddle in matters of internal conflict in French history, of internal conflict in Algerian history and of conflict between French and Algerians. There are times when it is important for matters to be looked at afresh from a different viewpoint. From my own experience working in universities, I know that a university needs someone to come from outside to o…
France and the Algerian War: Strategy, operations and diplomacy
France's war in Algeria from 1954–62 has prompted new historical research and political polemics since 1992. Access to French archives, along with publication of memoirs and collections of letters by conscript troops, has permitted fresh social, cultural and literary perspectives, and new insights about the memory of this war in France and Algeria. The war's strategies and military operations, however, have been neglected. Yet these aspects illum…
The Algerian War and the French Army, 1954-62: Experiences, Images, Testimonies
The Algerian War 1954-62 was one of the most prolonged and violent examples of decolonization. At times horribly savage, it was an undeclared war in the sense that no formal declaration of hostilities was ever made. Bringing to an end one hundred and thirty two years of French rule, the Algerian struggle caused the fall of six French prime ministers, the collapse of the Fourth Republic and expulsion of one million French settlers. This volume, br…
France and the World since 1870
Limiting arms, enforcing limits: International inspections and the challenges of compellance in Germany post-1919, Iraq post-1991
This article compares efforts to curb German military power after 1919 with attempts to limit that of Iraq after 1991. It argues that incomplete defeat in each case, compounded by disputes among the victors (exploited by the Germans and Iraqis) undermined a long-term maintenance of each settlement. UNSCOM's problems in Iraq in the 1990s replicated much of what had hamstrung the IMCC in Germany in the 1920s. Crucial was the lack of autonomous inte…
Enforcing arms limits: Germany post 1919; Iraq post 1991 introduction
The ‘Novelty’ of Sarkozy's Foreign Policy Towards Nato and the US: The Long View
Nicolas Sarkozy's reintegration of NATO's military command in 2009 has been presented as radical, given the traditional Gaullist stance of an arm's length relationship with NATO and the US. This article argues first, the difficulty for any French political leader to alter radically the course of French foreign and defence policy; second, that Sarkozy’ policy is merely conforming to a longer-term trend of negotiating between European and Atlantic …
Wielding Finance as a Weapon of Diplomacy: France and Britain in the 1920s
France has long conceived of finance as a weapon of diplomacy. The role of French finance in sealing the Franco-Russian Alliance in 1892 is well known; the Quai d'Orsay's use of access to the Paris financial markets and the Paris Bourse as an instrument of foreign policy before the First World War was the subject of much research in the early 1970s. However, the use of currency and credit manipulation as a diplomatic weapon and a lever of power h…
The Fischer Controversy, the War Origins Debate and France: A Non-History
The controversy that followed publication in 1961 of Fritz Fischer’s Griff nach der Weltmacht was not restricted to West Germany. Even if the Fischer debate abroad did not acquire the vehemence it took on domestically, intellectually the effect was powerful. This article will demonstrate that France was potentially a most propitious terrain for the Fischer controversy to spread. Yet for a variety of reasons, largely to do with the nature of histo…
France and the Algerian War, 1954-1962: Strategy, Operations and Diplomacy
The French Army's war in Algeria has always aroused passions. This book does not whitewash the atrocities committed by both sides; rather it focuses on the conflict itself, a perspective assisted by the French republic's official admission in 1999 that what happened in Algeria was indeed a war
Beyond the Balance of Power: France and the Politics of National Security in the Era of the First World War, by Peter Jackson
Journal Article Beyond the Balance of Power: France and the Politics of National Security in the Era of the First World War, by Peter Jackson Get access Beyond the Balance of Power: France and the Politics of National Security in the Era of the First World War, by Peter Jackson (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2013; pp. xv + 559. £70). J.F.V. Keiger J.F.V. Keiger University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Sir Edward Grey, France, and the Entente: How to Catch the Perfect Angler
This article will focus on the nine-year relationship between British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey and the French Ambassador at London Paul Cambon, principally during the years 1912 to 1914. It will show how the French perceived Sir Edward Grey himself, his foreign policy, and his understanding of the Entente. It will analyse the means by which Cambon in particular, and through him the French in general, sought to coax from the Foreign Secre…
L’Europe était-elle asymétrique en 1930 ? Une ébauche d’évaluation à travers le plan Briand d’Union Fédérale Européenne
L’Europe qui existait une décennie après le Traité de Versailles était-elle un système international asymétrique ? Un questionnaire adressé par la France, mandaté par la SDN, à 26 États européens concernant le Plan Briand, sert de sondage d’opinion sur l’état de l’Europe en 1930. Il révèle des différences à géométrie variable entre groupes d’États selon qu’il s’agit de politique, d’économie ou de relations internationales. Mais la différence fond…
Marianne Is Watching: Intelligence, Counterintelligence and the Origins of the French Surveillance State by Deborah Bauer
The conclusion (“epilogue”) to this volume about the history of French intelligence from the Franco-Prussian War to the outbreak of World War I opens with a novel idea: “On July 28, 1914 in support of her ally Russia, France declared war on Germany” (255). To say the least, that an academic historian and author should misconstrue who declared war on whom in the seminal conflict of the twentieth century is concerning. If history had been as Bauer …
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