Editing Diplomatic history (section)

===French approaches===
A group of [[French historians]] centered around [[Pierre Renouvin]] (1893–1974) and his ''protégés'' [[Jean-Baptiste Duroselle]] and {{ill|Maurice Baumont|fr|v=sup}} started a new type of international history in the 1950s that included taking into account what Renouvin called ''{{lang|fr|forces profondes}}'' (profound forces) such as the influence of domestic politics on French foreign policy.  However, Renouvin and his followers still followed the concept of ''{{lang|fr|la décadence}}'' with Renouvin arguing that French society under the [[French Third Republic|Third Republic]] was “sorely lacking in initiative and dynamism” and Baumont arguing that French politicians had allowed "personal interests" to override "any sense of the general interest".  In 1979, Duroselle's book ''La Décadence'' offered a total condemnation of the entire Third Republic as weak, cowardly and degenerate.<ref>Peter Jackson,  “Post-War Politics and the Historiography of French Strategy and Diplomacy Before the Second World War" ''History Compass'', Volume 4/5, 2006 pp 870-95</ref><ref>S. W. Helprin, ''Some Twentieth-Century Historians'' (1961) pp 143-70</ref>