Foreword (1993)

FOREWORD. H/urc rope's political earthquakes since 1989 have posed a formidable chai lenge for European Studies at SAIS. These essays on France are part of a continuing set of projects—"Discovering the New Europe"—whereby we have tried to rise to the occasion. The authors come to SAIS, revise their texts afterlectures and seminars, andwe publishtheresults. The whole processhas been a wonderful tonic forour program and for SAIS as a whole, and helped us greatly to adapt our curriculum and scholarship to the new European situation. This is our first collaboration with the SAIS Review. Two earlier studies have been published elsewhere: Recasting Europe 's Economies: National Strategiesin the 1980swiththe University PressofAmericain 1990andFrom the Atlantic to the Urals: National Perspectives on the New Europe in 1992 withSeven Locks Press. SeriesonGermany and Italy are planned forthe next couple of years, with several others to follow, accompanied by a continuing series of lectures on the European Community. Meanwhile, our Bologna colleague, Patrick McCarthy, has edited a collection, France-Germany, 1983-1993: TheStruggle to Cooperate. It contains articles by several ofour recent Ph.D. students, including Philip Gondon, who currently is teaching at SAIS Washington, and myself. A similar volume is being planned on the future ofthe European nation-state. Of the six principal authors presented here, one is Patrick McCarthy, Professor of European Studies at the SAIS Bologna Center, and a frequent writeronFrenchpoliticaleconomyandculture. Oftheremainingfive,twoare Frenchacademicanalysts—Jean-ClaudeChesnaisandYvesBoyer. Thethree others, Benoîtd'Aboville, Raphaël Hadas-Lebel andJean-Pierre Landau, are seniorFrench civil servants with strong academic connections. Chesnais and 2 SAIS REVIEW Landau have taught in European Studies at SAIS—thanks to the generous program for an annual visiting professor from France sponsored by CREST (Center for Research and Education on Strategy and Technology), a foundationcloselyconnectedwiththeEcolePolytechnique . Chesnaisisalsoteaching this year at our Bologna Center. The essays have been written over a period of particularly rapid and unsettling change. All seek a long-term perspective, but recent events naturally bear significantly on some of them. The d'Aboville and Landau essays were completed by June 1993. The rest were in their final versions by the end ofSeptember 1993. My introduction speculates on the implications ofrecent events, in particular the August currency crisis. Itakethisopportunitytothanktheauthors,theeditorsoftheSAISReview, in particularDahlia Stein forhercopy-editing, and all our students who have helped throughout the project. Alex Lau—a doctoral candidate in European Studies—has managedthe whole business in ahighly congenial andefficient fashion. TheprojectwasdevelopedandfundedthroughtheWashington Foundation for European Studies, a foundation with particular concern for SAIS. Generous financial support has come from the European Community, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Fondation Franco-Américaine, the French-American Foundation, the Johns Hopkins University and U.S.-CREST. David P. Calleo Dean Acheson Professor and Director of European Studies November 1993 ...