1st Edition

The Long Presidency France In The Mitterrand Years, 1981-1995

By Julius W Friend Copyright 1998
320 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

"A balanced, yet critical, review of Mitterrand's fourteen-year presidency. Friend has crowned a long career as an expert on French politics with this astute analysis and assessment of a decisive chapter in the history of French Socialism. This is contemporary history at its best." —Richard Kuisel SUNY, Stony Brook "An intelligent and highly readable account of the Mitterrand years that, Friend... Read more
Introduction -- Genesis -- Socialism in One Common Market Country -- Thirty-Six Months at the Center -- From Confrontation to Cohabitation -- Cohabitation -- Mitterrand II -- Successes, Failures, Question Marks -- The Economics of Socialism and Un-Socialism -- Foreign Policy: 1981–1995 -- The Meaning of Mitterrand

Biography

Friend, Julius W