France and the world

The setting of one century of Entente Cordiale in a historical perspective reveals a relation less bilateral than it appears to be. From 1904 to […]

The Ninth Conference of the Heads of State and government of the countries having French in division (2002), which was held in Beirut, consolidated the […]

Foreign policy often remains a puzzle hard to decipher, as the reflection of force relations between States and the extension of domestic policy to the […]

During his political campaign, Jacques Chirac declared he wished to create a French international information TV channel. Having drawn a lesson from the picture battle […]

Alternately praised and blamed, cohabitation has played a major part in running the fifth Republic institutions and in leading French diplomacy and defence. It therefore […]

At 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 […]

Franco-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 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 French disarmament policy and diplomacy, under the Fifth Republic, is marked by continuity, rationality and flexibility. Their coherence rests on an original conceptual framework […]

French policy in Africa tends to be explained through the concept of bilateralism, however, in the present context of globalization, this kind of analysis appears […]