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Journal of Cold War Studies

Quarterly
(Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall)
192 pp. per issue, 6 x 9
Founded: 1999
ISSN 1520-3972
E-ISSN 1531-3298

Journal of Cold War Studies

Fall 2000, Vol. 2, No. 3, Pages 87-100
Posted Online March 13, 2006.
(doi:10.1162/15203970051032246)
© 2000 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Reconstructing De Gaulle

Jeffrey Vanke

Assistant professor of history and international studies at Guilford College



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The responses to Andrew Moravcsik's article discuss the main substantive and methodological points raised in it. Although most of the respondents agree that Moravcsik has properly highlighted the importance of commercial concerns for de Gaulle's policy on European integration, they question the validity of his sharp separation between de Gaulle's political and economic goals for France. Several commentators argue that political and commercial concerns (including agricultural concerns) were closely intertwined in de Gaulle's vision of French grandeur. John Keeler brings up another crucial question: Was French agriculture really an obstacle to France's position in Europe? He argues that de Gaulle successfully supported and modernized French agriculture because he was convinced that this would contribute to France's geopolitical position in Europe and the Western world. In two longer commentaries, Jeffrey Vanke and Marc Trachtenberg raise questions about Moravcsik's methodology and use of sources. Both agree that Moravcsik draws on an impressive array of available materials concerning de Gaulle. But they both wonder whether a definitive account of de Gaulle's policies can be written when the documentary record is still incomplete, a point raised by the

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Robert H. Lieshout , Mathieu L. L. Segers , Anna M. van der Vleuten. (2004) De Gaulle, Moravcsik, and The Choice for Europe: Soft Sources, Weak Evidence. Journal of Cold War Studies 6:4, 89-139
Online publication date: 1-Oct-2004.
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