Jean François Juneau

Visiting Scholar

Education
Ph.D., History, Université de Montréal
M.A., History, Université Laval, Québec/Freie Universität Berlin
B.A., History, Université Laval, Québec

Mershon Project
My Ph.D. thesis examined how Egon Bahr, the chief architect of West Germany's Ostpolitik, defined West Germany's interests and objectives in the context of Bonn's relations with the Soviet Bloc between 1945 and 1975.

My postdoctoral research project is closely related to this subject. It deals with the Western policy, or Westpolitik, of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) during the 1960s and early 1970s. At the beginning of the 1960s the SPD abandoned its opposition to the Federal Republic of Germany's integration in Euro-Atlantic structures and started developing a détente-oriented foreign policy that was eventually implemented at the beginning of the 1970s.

I will examine the links between the SPD's Westpolitik and its global policy of détente aiming at the reunification of Germany within a new European peace order. My goal is to show how the Social Democrats' new approach to the German question and the East-West conflict affected their position toward the Western powers, NATO, and European integration.

Publications
"La récente crise des relations transatlantiques : étude bibliographique," with Frédéric Cyr (Études internationales, submitted)

"Les États-Unis et la politique à l'Est (Ostpolitik) de la République fédérale d’Allemagne, 1969- 1972" (Actes du 7e colloque étudiant du Département d'Histoire de l'Université Laval, 2008)

"Idéologie, contexte international et situation nationale dans la politique des communistes estallemands à l'égard de la Pologne, 1945-1950" (Actes du 6e Colloque étudiant du Département d'histoire de l'Université Laval, 2007)

"La politique de l'Allemagne à l'égard de la Croatie, 1991-2006," in La politique étrangère de la Croatie, de son indépendance à nos jours, ed. by Renéo Lukic (Presses de l’'Université Laval, 2006)

"Les Occidentaux et le révisionnisme allemand dans l’historiographie," with Frédéric Cyr (Revue d'Allemagne et des pays de langue allemande, 2006)

"Les politiques de la France et de l'Allemagne portant sur la PESC et la défense européenne depuis la fin de la guerre froide" (Cahiers d'Histoire, 2006)

Honors and Awards
Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2005-08)
Michèle de la Pradelle Prize, awarded for best article published in the Proceedings of the 7th History Graduate Student Conference, Université Laval (2007)
Michèle de la Pradelle Prize, awarded for best article published in the Proceedings of the 6th History Graduate Student Conference, Université Laval (2006)

Jean François Juneau
Visiting Scholar
Mershon Center for International Security Studies