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The 1970s were a period of change in international relations influenced in part by Europe and European states, such as France and West Germany. The privileged partnership between the two countries mattered not only in Europe but also in the wider cold war world. An analysis of the Franco-German pair thus helps explain why integrated Europe managed to speak with one voice on some issues and failed on others.
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See the articles by Georges-Henri Soutou, “Willy Brandt, Georges Pompidou et 1’Ostpolitik,” Andreas Wilkens, “Willy Brandt, die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen und die Europapolitik 1969–1974,” and Katrin Rucker, “Willy Brandt, Georges Pompidou et le sommet de La Haye en 1969,” in Willy Brandt und Frankreich, eds. Horst Möller and Maurice VaYsse (München: Oldenbourg, 2005), 121–55, 181–215. See also Claudia Hiepel, “Willy Brandt, Georges Pompidou und Europa. Das deutsch-französiche Tandem in den Jahren 1969–1974,” in Aufbruch zum Europa der zweiten Generation. Die Europäische Einigung 1969–1984, eds. Franz Knipping and Matthias Schonwald (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004), 28–47.
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Willy Brandt, Friedenspolitik in Europa (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Verlag, 1968), 137. See also Henning Turk, Die Europapolitik der Grof?en Koalition 1966–1969 (München: Oldenbourg, 2006).
See Maurice VaTsse, “Changement et continuité dans la politique européenne de la France,” in Georges Pompidou et Z’Europe, ed. Association Geoges Pompidou (Bruxelles: Editions Complexe, 1995), 29–45.
John Gillingham, EuropeanIntegration 1950–2003.Superstate orNewMarketEconomy? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 100.
Richard T. Griffiths, “A dismal decade? European Integration in the 1970s,” in Origins and Evolution of the European Union, ed. Desrnond Dinan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 181.
Olaf Hillenbrand, “Die Wirtschafts- und Wahrungsunion,” in EuropaHandbuch, ed. Werner Weidenfeld (Bonn: Bundeszentrale fiir politische Bildung, 2002), 465.
See the two articles: Gerard Bossuat, “Le president Georges Pompidou et les tentatives d’Union economique et monetaire,” and Robert Frank, “Pompidou, le franc et l’Europe,” in Pompidou, ed. Association Georges Pompidou, 339–71, 405–49.
Aurélie Gfeller, “A Contested Identity. Kissinger, France and the Year of Europe, 1973–1974,” paper for the second international RICHIE conference, The Road to a United Europe, December 7–10, 2006, Copenhagen University, 16.
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Rücker, K. (2008). What Role for Europe in the International Arena of the Early 1970s?. In: A History of Franco-German Relations in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230616639_18
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