Franco-German Relations and European Integration: Peeling off the Labels
| Author | Adrian Treacher |
| Published date | 01 October 2002 |
| Date | 01 October 2002 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-856X.00092 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
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Franco-German relations and European
integration: peeling off the labels1
ADRIAN TREACHER
Books reviewed
Cole, Alistair (2001) Franco-German Relations. Harlow: Pearson Educa-
tion, x +178 pp., ISBN 0-582-31997-8
Friend, Julius (2001) Unequal Partners: French-German Relations
1989–2000. The Washington Papers 180. Westport: Praeger and The
Center for Strategic and International Studies, xv +133 pp., ISBN 0-
275-97603-3
Hendriks, Gisela and Morgan, Annette (2001) The Franco-German Axis
in European Integration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, ix +197 pp., ISBN
185898-360-6
Webber, Douglas (ed.) (1999) The Franco-German Relationship in the
European Union. London: Routledge, xvi +192 pp., ISBN 0-415-
17065-6
‘Axis’, ‘couple’, ‘engine’, ‘motor’ and ‘partnership’ immediately spring to
mind when one thinks of the contemporary Franco-German dynamic in
the context of the perpetually integrating European Union. Indeed, one
of the four volumes under review here even uses the first of these labels
in the title. Unfortunately this array of terms can make this bilateral rela-
tionship somewhat baffling to comprehend. Alistair Cole offers us a useful
British Journal of Politics and International Relations,
Vol. 4, No. 3, October 2002, pp. 510–518
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