ferent levels, focusing specifically on the economic cooperation of the two countries.
            
            
              A monograph by E.A. Osipov covers a broad range of issues relating not only to the relaxation
            
            
              of international tensions in 1965-1975, but also touching upon various aspects of bilateral and
            
            
              multilateral contacts on the world political arena involving the participation of the French Re-
            
            
              public. Analyzing events of the aforementioned period through the prism of the French politics,
            
            
              the author relies on a multitude of sources (some of them originating from the French foreign
            
            
              ministry's archives), which have for the first time been introduced into scientific discourse; he
            
            
              also provides an insight into the reasons behind certain changes in the format of world politics.
            
            
              Osipov's monograph is a fundamental work on the history of the French Fifth Republic and
            
            
              the system of international relations in these years of the key stage of the Cold War.
            
            
              
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