Robert J. Young (born 1942) is a Canadian historian and former professor of history at theUniversity of Winnipeg (1968–2008). He specializes in 20th centuryEuropean international politics. A graduate of theUniversity of Saskatchewan and theLondon School of Economics, Young'sdoctoraldissertation was written under the supervision ofDonald Cameron Watt. It was published byHarvard University Press asIn Command of France: French Foreign Policy and Military Planning, 1933-1940. Over the last forty years, Professor Young, a Canadian, has written numerous academic books and articles includingFrance and the Origins of the Second World War andLouis Barthou: Power and Pleasure. Throughout, he has consistently rejected thela décadence thesis that the allegeddecadence ofFrance in the 1930s made theFall of France inevitable.^[1]

• "Preparations for Defeat: French War Doctrine in the Inter-War Period" pages 155-172 fromJournal of European Studies, Issue #2, June 1972.
• "The Aftermath of Munich: The Course of French Diplomacy, October 1938 to March 1939" pages 305-322 fromFrench Historical Studies, Fall 1973.
• "The Strategic Dream: French Air Doctrine in the Inter-War Period, 1919-1939" pages 31–42 fromJournal of Contemporary History, October 1974.
• In Command of France: French Foreign Policy and Military planning, 1933-1940, Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1978,ISBN 0-674-44536-8.
• "La Guerre de Longue Durée: Some Reflections on French Strategy and Diplomacy in the 1930s" pages 41–64 fromGeneral Staffs and Diplomacy Before the Second World War edited by Adrian Preston, London: Colm Helm, 1978.
• French Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials, Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1981,ISBN 0-8420-2178-7.
• "French Military Intelligence and Nazi Germany" pages 271-309 fromKnowing One's Enemies: Intelligence Assessment Before the Second World War edited by Ernest May, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
• "The Use and Abuse of Fear: France and the Air Menace in the 1930s" pages 88–109 fromIntelligence and National Security, Issue #4, 1987.
• Power and Pleasure : Louis Barthou and the Third French Republic, Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991,ISBN 0-7735-0863-5.
• France and the Origins of the Second World War, St. Martin's Press: New York, 1996,ISBN 978-0-312-16186-6
• “In the Eye of the Beholder: The Cultural Representation of France and Germany by the New York Times 1939-1940” pages 245-268 fromThe French Defeat of 1940 Reassessments edited by Joel Blatt, Berghahn Books, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, 1998,ISBN 1-57181-109-5.
• “A Douce and Dextrous Persuasion: French Propaganda and Franco-American Relations in the 1930s” pages 195-214 fromFrench Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940 The Decline and Fall of A Great Power edited by Robert Boyce, London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 1998,ISBN 0-415-15039-6.
• Marketing Marianne : French Propaganda in America, 1900-1940, New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2004,ISBN 0-8135-3377-5.
• An Uncertain Idea of France : Essays and Reminiscence on the Third Republic, New York : P. Lang, 2005,ISBN 0-8204-7481-9.

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• Alumni of the London School of Economics
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• 21st-century Canadian historians
• Manitoba Book Awards winners

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