French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940

Robert Boyce is Senior Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is editor (with Esmonde Robertson) of Paths to War: New Essays on the Origins of the Second World War (1989) and author of British Capitalism at the Crossroads, 1919-1932: A Study in Politics, Economics and International Relations (1987). His book, Fatal Estrangement: Franco-British Relations from Versailles to Dunkirk, is in preparation.

• Notes on contributors, List of abbreviations, Introduction, 1 France at the Paris Peace Conference: addressing the dilemmas of security, 2 France and the politics of steel, from the Treaty of Versailles to the International Steel Entente, 1919–1926, 3 Raymond Poincaré and the Ruhr crisis, 4 Economics and Franco-Belgian relations in the inter-war period, 5 Reparations and war debts: the restoration of French financial power, 1919–1929, 6 Business as usual: the limits of French economic diplomacy, 1926–1933, 7 René Massigli and Germany, 1919–1938, 8 Franco-Italian relations in flux, 1918–1940, 9 In defence of the Maginot Line: security policy, domestic politics and the economic depression in France, 10 A douce and dextrous persuasion: French propaganda and Franco-American relations in the 1930s, 11 Daladier, Bonnet and the decision-making process during the Munich crisis, 1938, 12 Intelligence and the end of appeasement, 13 France and the phoney war, 1939–1940, Index