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Charles de Gaulle, the International System, and the Existential Difference

Graham O'Dwyer
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Cold War diplomacy
Cold War International System
comparative international relations
Contemporary IR Scholarship
De Gaulle
De Gaulle's Concept
De Gaulle's Foreign Policy
De Gaulle's France
De Gaulle's Nationalism
De Gaulle's Perception
De Gaulle's Rationale
De Gaulle's Sense
De Gaulle's Understanding
De Gaulle's Views
De Gaulle's Vision
De Gaulle's Words
De Gaulle’s Concept
De Gaulle’s Foreign Policy
De Gaulle’s France
De Gaulle’s Nationalism
De Gaulle’s Perception
De Gaulle’s Rationale
De Gaulle’s Sense
De Gaulle’s Understanding
De Gaulle’s Views
De Gaulle’s Vision
De Gaulle’s Words
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Ethno Symbolic Approach
Ethno Symbolic Characteristics
ethno-symbolism
existentialism in foreign policy analysis
existentialist nationalism
French political thought
IR's Dominant Theory
IR’s Dominant Theory
national identity theory
NATO's Integrate Command
NATO’s Integrate Command
Place De Gaulle
Sartre's Logic
Sartre’s Logic
UK's Decision
UK's EU Referendum
UK’s Decision
UK’s EU Referendum
Understand De Gaulle
West Germany
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9781472437556
  • Weight: 476g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Mar 2017
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

This innovative account of Charles de Gaulle as a thinker and writer on nationalism and international relations offers a view of him far beyond that of a traditional nationalist. Centring on the way de Gaulle regarded nations as individuals the author frames his argument by rationalising de Gaulle’s nationalism within the existential movement that flowed as an intellectual undercurrent throughout early and mid-twentieth-century France. Graham O’Dwyer asserts that this existentialism of the nation and ‘the presence of the past’ allowed de Gaulle to separate the ‘nation’ from the ‘state’ when looking at China, Russia, Vietnam, and East European countries, enabling him to understand the idiosyncrasies of specific national characters better than most of his contemporaries. This was especially the case for Russia and China and meant that he read the Cold War world in a way that Washington and London could not, allowing him a unique insight into how they would act as individuals and in relation to other nations.
About Graham O'Dwyer

Graham O’Dwyer is a lecturer at the University of Reading.

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