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Kolodziej, Edward A. French International Policy under de Gaulle and Pompidou: The Politics of Grandeur (1974) Kulski, Władysław Wszebór (1966). De Gaulle and the World: The Foreign Policy of the Fifth French Republic. Syracuse UP. ISBN 978-0815600527. Lacouture, Jean. De Gaulle: The Ruler 1945–1970 (v 2 1993), 700 pp, a major scholarly ...
During its brief existence, the French Fourth Republic largely pursued an Atlanticist foreign policy. Since his return to power in 1958, Charles de Gaulle advocated for French sovereignty and independence, aiming to provide an alternative to the two blocs dominated by the United States and the Soviet Union.
Pages in category "Foreign policy of the Charles de Gaulle administration (1959–1969)" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
French-Soviet Joint Declaration of June 30, 1966 is an important agreement on a range of cooperation between the Soviet Union and France, signed in Moscow at the same date by President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Podgorny and President of the French Republic Charles de Gaulle, which resumed with the Russian Federation since then.
De Gaulle's economic policy, based on the idea of dirigisme (state stewardship of the economy), has also weakened. Although the major French banks, as well as insurance, telecommunications, steel, oil and pharmaceutical companies, were state-owned as recently as the mid-1980s, the French government has since then privatized many state assets.
[106] [198] Although he followed the main tenets of de Gaulle's foreign policy, he was keen to work towards warmer relations with the United States. In 1968, shortly before leaving office, de Gaulle refused to devalue the Franc on grounds of national prestige, but upon taking over Pompidou reversed the decision almost immediately.
The trip to South America was meticulously prepared in advance by the Élysée protocol department and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On June 3, 1964, de Gaulle called a meeting of his Foreign Minister Couve de Murville, the Quai d'Orsay Chief of Protocol, Étienne Burin des Roziers, Secretary General of the Élysée Palace, and the ten ...
De Gaulle's foreign policy was centered around an attempt to limit the power and influence of both superpowers, and at the same time increase France's international prestige. De Gaulle hoped to move France from being a follower of the United States to becoming the leading nation of a large group of non-aligned countries.