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A new order for France and Europe? : Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce between Liberalism, Fascism and Europeanism (1930-1954)
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Florence : European University Institute, 2015
EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis
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KNEGT, Floris Daniël, A new order for France and Europe? : Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce between Liberalism, Fascism and Europeanism (1930-1954), Florence : European University Institute, 2015, EUI, HEC, PhD Thesis - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/40747
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Thanks to the success of recent attempts to study fascism within an international or transnational framework, scholarship on the subject has broken free from its traditional national orientation. By now, the European or even global interconnectedness of the revolutionary right has clearly come to light. This is not necessarily true for the links between fascism and internationalist and Europeanist intellectual currents in interwar and post-war Europe. My thesis explores the political thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce, two French intellectuals, journalists and political writers who are representative of this Europeanist avant-garde. I argue that their Europeanist ideas and international contacts played a major role in their 'drift' towards fascism during the 1930s, while they were seduced by a fascist vision of a united Europe during the Second World War. Paradoxically, these ideas also enabled them to gradually reintegrate with the political mainstream during the early post-war years. Jouvenel's post-war career as a leading neoliberal intellectual and founding member of the Mont Pèlerin society should, just like Fabre-Luce's continued involvement with the French extreme right, be seen within the light of continuity in their ideas about Europe, fascism and democracy, stretching from the turning of the 1930s well into the 1950s.
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Defence date: 13 November 2015
Examining Board: Professor Dr. Dirk Moses (EUI/ Supervisor); Professor Doctor Laura Lee Downs (EUI/Second Reader); Professor Doctor Peter Romijn (University of Amsterdam); Professor Doctor Kevin Passmore (Cardiff University).
Examining Board: Professor Dr. Dirk Moses (EUI/ Supervisor); Professor Doctor Laura Lee Downs (EUI/Second Reader); Professor Doctor Peter Romijn (University of Amsterdam); Professor Doctor Kevin Passmore (Cardiff University).