Frédéric Dessberg – författare

What is the role of a soldier at the end of war, when either victory or defeat is inevitable? This book delves into that question, exploring how the military and soldiers on the ground have contributed to the transition to peace. With case studies from 1800 to the present day, Soldiers in Peace-making offers a historical overview of the part military men and women have played in the aftermath of war. From UN peacekeeping in Cambodia to military observers in former Yugoslavia, the post-Cold War US Army and more, the essays in this collection map the strategy, politics and practicalities involved in the transition from war to postwar. Analyzing the legitimacy of each ‘peace’ and the military's approach to them, the chapters explore how soldiers have engaged with politics and political leaders, interacted with civil populations, and called upon their own expertise to enable the peace-making process. In exploring the hybrid role of military men and women as diplomats, peacemakers, negotiators and fighters this book reveals the crucial part they have played as conflicts come to a close.

What is the role of a soldier at the end of war, when either victory or defeat is inevitable? This book delves into that question, exploring how the military and soldiers on the ground have contributed to the transition to peace. With case studies from 1800 to the present day, Soldiers in Peace-making offers a historical overview of the part military men and women have played in the aftermath of war. From UN peacekeeping in Cambodia to military observers in former Yugoslavia, the post-Cold War US Army and more, the essays in this collection map the strategy, politics and practicalities involved in the transition from war to postwar. Analyzing the legitimacy of each ''peace'' and the military''s approach to them, the chapters explore how soldiers have engaged with politics and political leaders, interacted with civil populations, and called upon their own expertise to enable the peace-making process. In exploring the hybrid role of military men and women as diplomats, peacemakers, negotiators and fighters this book reveals the crucial part they have played as conflicts come to a close.

What is the role of a soldier at the end of war, when either victory or defeat is inevitable? This book delves into that question, exploring how the military and soldiers on the ground have contributed to the transition to peace. With case studies from 1800 to the present day, Soldiers in Peace-making offers a historical overview of the part military men and women have played in the aftermath of war. From UN peacekeeping in Cambodia to military observers in former Yugoslavia, the post-Cold War US Army and more, the essays in this collection map the strategy, politics and practicalities involved in the transition from war to postwar. Analyzing the legitimacy of each ''peace'' and the military''s approach to them, the chapters explore how soldiers have engaged with politics and political leaders, interacted with civil populations, and called upon their own expertise to enable the peace-making process. In exploring the hybrid role of military men and women as diplomats, peacemakers, negotiators and fighters this book reveals the crucial part they have played as conflicts come to a close.

What is the role of a soldier at the end of war, when either victory or defeat is inevitable? This book delves into that question, exploring how the military and soldiers on the ground have contributed to the transition to peace. With case studies from 1800 to the present day, Soldiers in Peace-making offers a historical overview of the part military men and women have played in the aftermath of war. From UN peacekeeping in Cambodia to military observers in former Yugoslavia, the post-Cold War US Army and more, the essays in this collection map the strategy, politics and practicalities involved in the transition from war to postwar. Analyzing the legitimacy of each ‘peace’ and the military's approach to them, the chapters explore how soldiers have engaged with politics and political leaders, interacted with civil populations, and called upon their own expertise to enable the peace-making process. In exploring the hybrid role of military men and women as diplomats, peacemakers, negotiators and fighters this book reveals the crucial part they have played as conflicts come to a close.

Lorsque la France, alliée de la Pologne, reconnaît l’Union soviétique en 1924, un élément essentiel et encore peu connu des relations européennes de l’Entre-deux-guerres se met en place : l’éventualité d’un triangle stratégique destiné à neutraliser l’Allemagne. Jusqu’en 1935, à la constante française visant à séparer Berlin de Moscou, répond l’obsession soviétique d’empêcher un rapprochement franco-allemand, pendant que la Pologne cherche à garantir son indépendance entre l’Allemagne et l’URSS. Dans quel cadre ce triangle peut-il fonctionner ? Celui d’une sécurité collective étendue à l’Est européen, privilégié par Paris et auquel Moscou finit par adhérer ? Celui des accords bilatéraux que Moscou préfère longtemps et dans lequel s’inscrit Varsovie ? Se posent alors les problèmes de l’engagement militaire français en faveur de la Pologne et celui de l’insertion de l’URSS dans le système européen. Sur la base de sources principalement françaises, soviétiques et polonaises, ce livre dévoile des divergences stratégiques profondes entre les trois protagonistes. Dans une histoire multilatérale faite d’atermoiements diplomatiques et d’alliances inachevées, la question des intérêts nationaux est centrale. Elle couvre les aspects politiques, militaires et idéologiques et permet de mettre à jour le poids des méfiances, des arrière-pensées et des rancœurs éprouvées par chacun.