A History of Franco-German Relations in Europe: From “Hereditary Enemies” to Partners

PART I: FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS FROM NAPOLEON TO WWI, 1800-1918 The Napoleonic Era in German Perspective; B.Struck France and the Prussian-Austrian Antagonism; J.Ulbert Franco-German Relations in the Bismarck Era, 1871-1890; N.N.Orgill History Writing and the Franco-German Conflict; H.Frey  & S.Jordan PART II: FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS IN INTERWAR EUROPE, 1918-1945 Franco-German Relations and the Coal Problem in the Immediate Aftermath of World Wars I and II; L.Fasanaro Civil Society and the Push for Cooperation in the Locarno Era; E.M.Passman Two "Ill-Mannered Siblings": France and Germany in the Public Debate in the Interwar Period; V.Schoeberl Attempts at a French-German Rapprochement during the Second Half of the 1930s; F.Clavert France and Germany's Economy, 1942-1948; M.Libera PART III: POST-WAR FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS, 1945-Present A New Framework of Relations with Germany through European Institutions, 1950-1954; V.Gavin "Contre l'Amerique...": The Nuclear Essence of Franco-German Rapprochement, 1954-1958; M.L.L.Segers More than a "Geriatric Romance": Adenauer, de Gaulle, and the Construction of the Bonn-Paris Axis; R.G.Granieri "An Awkward Waltz": The Paris-Bonn-Moscow Triangle and the Shaping of Europe, 1963-1969; G.Martin Willy Brandt, Georges Pompidou, and Europe, 1969-1974; K.Ruecker Franco-German Relations in the Giscard-Schmidt Era, 1974-1981; M.Weinachter Francois Mitterand and Helmut Kohl; G.Saunier The Weimar Triangle; W.Vogel The "Other" Franco-German Relations; U.Pfeil

CARINE GERMOND is the Clifford Hackett Lecturer in the History of European Integration at Yale, USA.

HENNING TÜRK teaches history at the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.