France and the United States: Waiting for Regime Change

Bozo, Frédéric; Parmentier, Guillaume

doi:10.1080/00396330701254651

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“…While Presidents Chirac and Bush began to move towards reconciliation from 2004 onwards, the process only gathered momentum when Nicolas Sarkozy was elected French President in 2007 and made the mending of France's relations to the US one of his foreign policy priorities. 52 Correspondingly, the net favourability rating of France in US public opinion took a leap between 2007 and 2008, but the rating is still far below its pre-Iraq war level (see Figure 1). As for the valence of the three public country images under study, therefore, the image of France in American public opinion clearly makes for the shakiest foundation for good bilateral relations with the US.…”

Section: Data Sources and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 95%

The public images of Britain, Germany, and France in the United States

Oppermann

2011

Journal of Transatlantic Studies

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public opinion over the course of the Presidency of George W. Bush. Public country images are seen to consist of a valence and a salience dimension. Employing a mix of opinion polls and media content data, the article locates the country images under study within this two-dimensional space. It finds that US relations with Britain, Germany and France rest on rather different foundations in the American public: the British image displays both the most positive valence and the highest salience; the valence of the German image is the second most positive but its image is the least salient; the French image has the least positive valence, and its salience takes on a middle position.

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Section: Data Sources and Methodsmentioning

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The public images of Britain, Germany, and France in the United States

Oppermann

2011

Journal of Transatlantic Studies

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“…Indeed, each of his successors has begun their term of office by announcing an improvement in relations with the United States, starting the process, only to see it stall as their mandate advanced (Bozo and Parmentier, 2007 Whether Nicolas Sarkozy's returning France to NATO will radically alter relations with the United States begs the greater question as to how radical in reality such a policy will be when one strips away the rhetoric. There is in French foreign policy, as with many other states, over the longue durée a remarkable continuity, which should not be surprising if foreign policy postures are supposed to reflect national interests.…”

Section: Continuity and The 'Anglo-saxon' Conundrum Of French Policymentioning

confidence: 96%

The ‘Novelty’ of Sarkozy's Foreign Policy Towards NATO and the US: The Long View

Keiger

2010

Eur Polit Sci

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Nicolas Sarkozy's reintegration of NATO's military command in 2009 has been presented as radical, given the traditional Gaullist stance of an arm's length relationship with NATO and the US. This article argues first, the difficulty for any French political leader to alter radically the course of French foreign and defence policy; second, that Sarkozy' policy is merely conforming to a longer-term trend of negotiating between European and Atlantic positions dating from the beginning of the twentieth century.

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“…Thus, despite the 2003 transatlantic crisis, France's attitude toward NATO is characterized by a cooperative approach illustrated by her strong engagement in NATO transformation and the Multinational Interoperability Council. The focus on interoperability shows that France under the leadership of the Ministry of Defense has put the emphasis on capabilities, notably with the Battlegroups, rather than on institutions (Bozo and Parmentier 2007). By 2007, when Sarkozy came to office, France had already become a member of all of NATO's politico-military bodies, with the exception of the Defense Planning Committee, the Nuclear Planning Group and the integrated military command.…”

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confidence: 99%