Contesting France: Intelligence and US Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War

Susan McCall Perlman

ISBN 10: 1316511812 / ISBN 13: 9781316511817

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2023

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275 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.81 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Contesting France: Intelligence and US Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1316511812
• ISBN-13: 9781316511817
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Brand New
• Gewicht: 0,6 Kilogramm

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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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Susan Perlman is Assistant Professor of History and Intelligence Studies at the National Intelligence University. She has published widely on US foreign relations and intelligence and is the 2020 recipient of the Robert Beland Excellence in Teaching Award.