Charles de Gaulle, the International System, and the Existential Difference

ISBN-13: 9781032179193 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 216 str.

Graham O'Dwyer

Opis

This innovative account of Charles de Gaulle as a thinker and writer on nationalism and international relations offers a view of him far beyond that of a traditional nationalist. Centring on the way de Gaulle regarded nations as individuals the author frames his argument by rationalising de Gaulle’s nationalism within the existential movement that

Spis treści

Acknowledgements vi

1 Introduction to the work 1

2 Haunted by history, preoccupied with nations 21

3 Ethno-symbolism and the ‘content’ of the international system 57

4 Existence preceding essence: The individuality of nationhood 92

5 Nationalism is an existentialism 128

6 De Gaulle, political science, and the problem of pessimism 166

Index 199

O autorze

Graham O’Dwyer is a lecturer at the University of Reading.