Contesting France: Intelligence and Us Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War - Brossura

Perlman, Susan Mccall

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1009054635 ISBN 13: 9781009054638

Casa editrice: Cambridge Univ Pr, 2025

Riassunto

Contesting 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 of?cials, colonial of?cers, and various trans-national actors in imperial outposts and in the metropole sought access to US intelligence of?cials 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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1009054635
• ISBN 13: 9781009054638
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 287
• Contatto del produttore: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italia