This volume, covering the events and developments of 1987, is the second in the series; it aims to review key changes in France for readers whose specialized knowledge requires reinforcement in the shape of information and comment on other related areas of French society and culture.
Part 1 The year in view: review of the year 1987, Peter Morris; unions
versus government - first blood to the government, Rene Mouriaux and Jacques
Capdevielle; the AIDS crisis - social mutations and political footballs,
Mairi Maclean; Gorbachev and the diplomatic revolution, Jolyon Howorth. Part
2 An end to French exceptionalism: from fashion-setter to fashion-follower in
Europe - the demise of French distinctiveness, Jack Hayward; the Atlantic
influence and the mellowing of French identity, Diana Pinto; round table on
French exceptionalism, Michel Crozier et al. Part 3 The Socialist
quinquennium - failed opportunities: the Mitterrand government and the French
civil service, Anne Stevens; the lingering death of economic nationalism,
Michael Rose. Part 4 State of the Art: sociology and the end of certainty,
Francois Chazel.
