Diffusion in Franco-German Relations

Eric Sangar is Lecturer in Political Science at Sciences Po Lille, France, a member of the research centre CERAPS, University of Lille, and an associated member of the Centre Emile Durkheim at Sciences Po Bordeaux. He authored the monograph Historical Experience: Burden or Bonus in Today’s Wars? and co-edited the volume Researching Emotions in International Relations.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 The mainstream narrative of Franco-German relations and the value of ‘diffusion’ as a complementary analytical framework.- 3 Exporting revolutionary institutions across the Rhine.- 4 Importing ‘alien’ or ‘enlightened’ law? Understanding the partial diffusion of the Code Napoléon in the Confederation of the Rhine.- 5 Importing nationalist warfare: Prussia’s emulation of the Napoleonic way of war.- 6 Understanding the incomplete emulation of Prussian warfare by the French Army after the Franco-Prussian War.- 7 Learning from the Prussian Schulmeister? German influences on French primary education before and after 1870.- 8 The ‘Germanisation’ of local identities in Alsace-Lorraine.- 9 Enabling reconciliation through the recognition of mutual entanglement: The emergence of a Franco-German transnational memory of the First World War.- 10 Understanding the diffusion of West German ordoliberal ideas within the context of the introduction of the European Monetary System.- 11 Conclusion: the added value of studying diffusion in the context of Franco-German relations.