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Cambridge Studies in Us Foreign Relations Ser.: Contesting France : Intelligence and Us Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War by Susan McCall Perlman (2023, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101316511812
ISBN-139781316511817
eBay Product ID (ePID)6057270213
Product Key Features
Number of PagesXiii, 273 Pages
Publication NameContesting France : Intelligence and Us Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2023
SubjectUnited States / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaHistory
AuthorSusan Mccall Perlman
SeriesCambridge Studies in Us Foreign Relations Ser.
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.9 in
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.2 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Reviews'Although intelligence remains international history's 'missing dimension,' Perlman joins a small cadre of scholars committed to filling in the gap. Based on prodigious research in multinational archives, her innovative and masterful Contesting France enhances and complicates our understandings of early cold war history and intelligence's pivotal yet problematic contribution to it.' Richard Immerman, author of The Hidden Hand: A Brief History of the CIA, 'In this exceedingly well-written and argued book, Perlman's assessment of American anxiety indicates that US intelligence officials had little grasp of internal French political stability, French nationalism, and independence movements in French colonies. This book could not be more relevant in urging us to think about how we gather, use, and abuse intelligence to achieve foreign policy goals.' Kathryn C. Statler, author of Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam, 'By applying a 'trans-imperial' approach to the role of intelligence, Contesting France delivers an innovative, intricate, and convincing insight into the early Cold War. By placing emotion central to the narrative, this book demonstrates just what is possible with a 'new diplomatic history' approach to international relations. An exceptional achievement.' Giles Scott-Smith, Roosevelt Chair in New Diplomatic History, Leiden University, 'Perlman offers a revealing examination that decenters Washington and instead provides a deeply researched and beautifully written transnational and trans-imperial history. She recognizes that foreign policy is rarely the result of one voice. Instead, she highlights the myriad of voices, which jockeyed for position within and among, the various government agencies, and countries. This is intelligence history at its best.' Sarah-Jane Corke, Co-Founder and Past-President of the North American Society for Intelligence History and Associate Professor at the University of New Brunswick
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal327.73044
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements; Abbreviations in text; Abbreviations in notes; Introduction; 1. Liberation; 2. Civil war; 3. Restoration; 4. March to power; 5. L'Evénement; Conclusion: How intelligence becomes policy; Notes; Bibliography.
SynopsisContesting France reveals the untold role of intelligence in shaping American perceptions of and policy toward France between 1944 and 1947, a critical period of the early Cold War when many feared that French communists were poised to seize power. In doing so, it exposes the prevailing narrative of French unreliability, weakness, and communist intrigue apparent in diplomatic dispatches and intelligence reports sent to the White House as both overblown and deeply contested. Likewise, it shows that local political factions, French intelligence and government ofFicials, colonial ofFicers, and various trans-national actors in imperial outposts and in the metropole sought access to US intelligence ofFicials in a deliberate effort to shape US policy for their own political postwar agendas. Using extensive archival research in the United States and France, Susan McCall Perlman sheds new light on the nexus between intelligence and policymaking in the immediate postwar era., Contesting France tells the story of how a transnational web of French sources used their exchanges with US intelligence to shape American policy towards France in the early Cold War. A much-needed addition to intelligence studies, this book will interest students and researchers of the early Cold War., Contesting France reveals the untold role of intelligence in shaping American perceptions of and policy towards France between 1944-1947, a critical period of the early Cold War when many feared that French Communists were poised to seize power. In doing so, it exposes the prevailing narrative of French unreliability, weakness, and communist intrigue apparent in diplomatic despatches and intelligence reports sent to the White House as both overblown and deeply contested. Likewise, it shows that local political factions, French intelligence and government officials, colonial officers, and various transnational actors in imperial outposts and in the metropole sought access to US intelligence officials in a deliberate effort to shape US policy for their own political post-war agendas. Based on extensive archival research in the US and France, Susan Perlman sheds new light on the nexus between intelligence and policymaking in the immediate post-war era.
