Les militaires français et la Communauté européenne de défense, 1950-1954

Type de ressource
Thèse
Auteurs/contributeurs
Titre
Les militaires français et la Communauté européenne de défense, 1950-1954
Résumé
This thesis studies the European Defence Community (EDC), a plan for a European supranational army proposed by French politicians in October 1950 and rejected by the French National Assembly in August 1954. It is more precisely concerned with the position of the French army, a group directly concerned by the project. The subject has been relatively neglected by historians. The army was being asked to pursue two contradictory tasks: fight alongside its allies the threat the Soviet Union was supposed to represent without sacrificing its independence. This thesis will focus, among other things, on the arguments presented for and against the EDC, the differences of opinion within the army, the factors that might account for these differences, the relative importance of the supporters and detractors of the project, and the variables taken into consideration by the members of the army on both sides (the communist threat, national power, colonial power, supranationalism, independence, etc.) It is based on the archives of the Service historique de la Défense (SHD), located in Vincennes, near Paris. This thesis shows that, although a majority clearly opposed the EDC, there was also a significant pro-EDC current, whose importance has often been underestimated by historians, and that both sides primarily used political arguments.
Type
Mémoire de maîtrise (M.A.)
Université
Université de Montréal
Lieu
Montréal
Date
2019-03-13
Langue
Français
Référence
Gagné, Nicolas. « Les militaires français et la Communauté européenne de défense, 1950-1954 ». Mémoire de maîtrise (M.A.), Université de Montréal, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1866/22026.
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