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- Title
Tradition and Adaptation: The Social Universe of the French Foreign Ministry in the Era of the First World War.
- Authors
Jackson, Peter
- Abstract
Attempts to ‘republicanize’ and ‘democratize’ the Quai d’Orsay before 1900 had limited impact on the practices and predispositions of the foreign ministry personnel. More important was the ministry's response to changes in the international sphere in the late nineteenth century and again after the First World War. The explosion of international trade and introduction of new communications technologies vastly expanded both the speed at which international politics took place and the amount of information required to manage foreign policy. The institutional reforms and restructuring of 1907, mostly the handiwork of Philippe Berthelot, were a response to these transformations. Among the most important consequences of these reforms was the emergence of a new generation of increasingly professional officials, better equipped to adapt to the challenges of the post-1918 era.
- Subjects
FRANCE; FRANCE. Ministere des affaires etrangeres; DIPLOMATIC &; consular service; TECHNOLOGY &; international relations; EFFECT of technological innovations on international trade; DIPLOMATS; PROFESSIONALISM; WORLD War I diplomacy; TURN of the century (19th-20th century); 19TH century French history; 20TH century French history; FRENCH politics &; government, 1870-1940
- Publication
French History, 2010, Vol 24, Issue 2, p164
- ISSN
0269-1191
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fh/crq031