France, NATO, and the limits of independence, 1981-97

"French policies towards NATO have for many years been the source of considerable bafflement to observers in terms both of their nature and of their purpose. This book presents the first detailed assessment of those policies up to and including the presidency of Jacques Chirac. Apart from detailing the precise nature of the complex relationship between France and NATO, it offers a critique of French policies.

It argues that whilst the policies originally formulated by de Gaulle served France well during the Cold War, they ceased to do so following the revolutions of 1989."--BOOK JACKET.