De Gaulle Between Grain and Grandeur

The Political Economy of French EC Policy, 1958–1970 (Part 1)

Bibliographic Data

ID12748366
AuthorsAndrew Moravcsik (Harvard University), Andrew M Moravcsik (0000-0003-3892-7568, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume2
Issue2
Pages3-43
Publication date2000-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Cold War Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1520-3972 • E-ISSN: 1531-3298
PublisherThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/15203970051032291
OpenAlexW4250190986
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited2

The thousands of books and articles on President Charles de Gaulle's policy toward European integration all accord primary explanatory importance to his distinctive geopolitical ideology. These analyses place secondary significance, if any at all, on commercial considerations. This two-part article seeks to revise that historiographical consensus by examining the four major decisions toward European integration taken by France during de Gaulle's presidency: to remain in the Common Market and promote the Common Agricultural Policy, to propose the Fouchet Plan in the early 1960s, to veto British accession to the European Economic Community, and to provoke the “empty chair” crisis in 1965–1966. The first two decisions are discussed here, and the other two are covered in Part 2. For each case, the overwhelming bulk of the evidence confirms that the interests pursued by de Gaulle were more commercial than geopolitical

Accession · Commodity · Common Agricultural Policy · Economics · Economy · European integration · European union · Foreign policy · Geopolitics · Historiography · Ideology · International trade · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Veto · European Socioeconomic and Political Studies · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Law · Political and Social Issues

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