Jean Monnet. La mesure d'une influence

Jean Monnet and his influence, Gérard Bossuat. For Monnet, decision-making put into play his intimate conviction of working toward bringing peoples together, his art of pedagogical synthesis and setting the stage which enabled him to convince, his team spirit, and his understanding of the right timing of political fights and acceptable compromise. Monnet took advantage of his French, European and American networks made up of top level business men and politicians whom he advised and media people whom he used to spread his ideas. His real influence can be measured by his ability to transform international and European relations. From the rearming of wartime France to the Plan, from the Victory program to the Schuman plan, from the CECA to working with the Kennedy administration, there were many successes although there were also some darker moments : Monnet was more of an organizer than a democrat; his choice of targeted conflicts sometimes led him to underestimate the general political situation; his determination to remain on the sidelines weakened his impact on public opinion until he published his Mémoires

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