France and the world
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Still very much of an Entente Cordiale between France and Britain
AFRI 2005, volume VI
par - 1er 2006The setting of one century of Entente Cordiale in a historical perspective reveals a relation less bilateral than it appears to be. From 1904 to 2004, the relation between France and Great Britain has always depended on the maintenance of balance in Europe. In fact, the duo is actually a threesome, as Germany acts as the pivot of the Entente. Moreover, as it remained focused on questions which divided the two contractors, it was never fused into a true alliance, neglecting the bilateral (...) -
Francophony as an actor in International Relations
AFRI 2005, volume VI
par - 1er 2006The Ninth Conference of the Heads of State and government of the countries having French in division (2002), which was held in Beirut, consolidated the international role of francophony and shown its capacity to be counted among the instruments which contribute to control and to humanize globalization. Its political vocation, consolidated by the restoration of the means and the methods, was organized around several poles : the deepening of the democracy within French-speaking space, the (...) -
Variations on foreign policy
AFRI 2004, volume V
par - 1er 2005Foreign policy often remains a puzzle hard to decipher, as the reflection of force relations between States and the extension of domestic policy to the international level. The Iraqi crisis, as it has split the core of Western solidarity, led the World Organisation near the edge, and has been a disruption from the system’s basic principles, illustrates this assertion. Yet, diplomacies are not condemned to a perpetual « wandering », provided they simply endow themselves with a both rational and (...) -
France’s international information channel
AFRI 2004, volume V
par - 1er 2005During his political campaign, Jacques Chirac declared he wished to create a French international information TV channel. Having drawn a lesson from the picture battle prior to the second Gulf war, he meant to rationalise France’s foreign audiovisual pole. After twenty years of wandering, the idea is still a disjointed instrument. Bernard Brochand’s project of associating the first private network in terms of audience, TF1, to the public holding company, France Television, does not only asks (...) -
A diplomatic cohabitation
AFRI 2003, volume IV
par - 1er 2004Alternately praised and blamed, cohabitation has played a major part in running the fifth Republic institutions and in leading French diplomacy and defence. It therefore deserves an unbiased appraisal at distance from election time. The picture that comes out of the comments of the political elite in the months preceding the April-June 2002 elections is far from flattering. As far as foreign policy is concerned, cohabitation appears as too complicated way of government to be considered as (...) -
About the international influence of French laws
AFRI 2003, volume IV
par - 1er 2004At the eve of this third millennium, France is no longer the long-recognised leading figure it used to be in juridical matters. Legal models compete strongly nowadays, in particular within regional and international organisations, at the latter’s initiative. Rules in penal proceedings are concerned as well as private international law and all new subjects in technologies and intellectual property law. In this competition between « legal importers » and « legal exporters », French law must face (...) -
Franco-German Partnership in Post-Cold War Era. From the Moscow Treaty (1990) to the Nice Treaty (2001)
AFRI 2002, volume III
par - 1er 2003Franco-German relationships have much evolved in the post-Cold war era, that is after the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989. Else than the reunification of the new Germany within the new Europe, the international status of France and reunited Germany has known a considerable transformation, the rise in power of the Berlin Republic has wiped the discriminations that would profit France before the Soviet Empire disintegrated. This being said, Franco-German consensus and (...) -
The Gaullist vision of european order
AFRI 2002, volume III
par - 1er 2003The Gaullist vision of the European system was widely different from the conceptions of the general’s partners. De Gaulle criticized the "hegemony" of two of the superpowers and he proposed to create a new "Concept of Europe". He supported the Franco-German reconciliation and the creation of the European Community, but he objected to the supranational cooperation, as he wanted to build the "Europe of the nations". He attached great importance to the alliance with the USA, yet he considered (...) -
The French diplomacy of disarmament under the Fifth Republic. 1958-2000
AFRI 2001, volume II
par - 1er 2002The French disarmament policy and diplomacy, under the Fifth Republic, is marked by continuity, rationality and flexibility. Their coherence rests on an original conceptual framework and principles, despite the different personal equation imposed by each of the five presidents who have led France since 1958. In addition, the French discourse has adapted relatively easily to the changes in the international strategic order after the fall of the Berlin Wall. However, the constraints imposed (...) -
French policy towards Africa
AFRI 2001, volume II
par - 1er 2002French policy in Africa tends to be explained through the concept of bilateralism, however, in the present context of globalization, this kind of analysis appears in certain ways to have become obsolete. Conscious of these changes, French politicians have made an effort to develop new partners in Africa, either with non-french speaking countries or with regional organizations. This development is also marked by France’s participation the framework of different international institutions, (...)
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