Is French defence policy becoming more Atlanticist?

Talmor, Angelique; Selden, Zachary

doi:10.1080/09557571.2017.1410100

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“…Despite its traditional Gaullist foreign policy discourse, France has since 1945 relied on the American alliance for security (Schmitt 2017;Talmor and Selden 2017;Trachtenberg 2012). The American presence in Europe benefited France by keeping Soviet-Russian power at bay and ensuring that Germany remained benign (Creswell 2002;Soutou 2001).…”

Section: Preventing Chinese Hegemonymentioning

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Why Do Middle Powers Project Forces in Distant Regions? The Case of France in the Indo-Pacific

Kerdodé,

Motin

2024

IJAPS

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France has steadily increased its military presence in the Indo-Pacific region in recent years. However, a middle power projecting forces far away represents an anomaly for neorealism, which generally expects non-great power states to focus their limited resources on their regional neighbourhood. This article proposes a new neorealist framework to explain why middle powers sometimes intervene in distant regions and tests it on the French case. Such interventions are likely if four conditions are met. First, the middle power must live in a relatively safe neighbourhood. Second, the distant region of interest must be open to power projection. Third, this region must have a potential hegemon that threatens to overturn the local balance of power. Fourth, economic benefits must offset the middle power’s cost of projecting forces there. This study helps explain French policy in the Indo-Pacific, fills a gap in neorealist theorising, and contributes to the literature on middle-power behaviour.

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Section: Preventing Chinese Hegemonymentioning

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Why Do Middle Powers Project Forces in Distant Regions? The Case of France in the Indo-Pacific

Kerdodé,

Motin

2024

IJAPS

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“…The new policy was based on the idea that France would be in a better position to achieve its ambitions within the framework of the Atlantic alliance and the EU. 97 The turning point in Sarkozy's foreign policy is clearly mentioned in the 2008 white paper on defence (Livre blanc), which makes the Iranian nuclear program a 'major threat, likely to disrupt international security in the years to come'. 98 To prevent the nuclearisation of Iran became a strategic priority for France.…”

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French Nuclear Policy Towards Iran: From the Shah to the Islamic Republic

Therme

2023

Nuclear France

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Since 2005, European and French foreign policy towards Iran have been caught between the change of Iran policy under Republican and Democrat administrations, on the one hand, and the Islamic Republic nuclear diplomacy on the other hand. To illustrate this argument, the article will provide a detailed history of Iranian-French relations, particularly pertaining to nuclear technology. The French discourse on a future nuclear Iranian threat reflects the dominant discourse within Western nuclear-weapon states on the nuclear 'other'. Therefore, this article aims to shed light on the growing gap between France's official nuclear ideology and the reality of internal and diplomatic developments of the Iranian nuclear program. I will deconstruct the official discourse produced in France on the Iranian quest for nuclear power to explore the complexity of the factors determining Iran's nuclear choices and the conclusion of the 2015 Nuclear Deal.

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Persevering with bandwagoning, not hedging: why European security cooperation still conforms to realism

Cladi

2022

Defence Studies

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Is French defence policy becoming more Atlanticist?

Cited by 3 publications

References 33 publications

Why Do Middle Powers Project Forces in Distant Regions? The Case of France in the Indo-Pacific

Why Do Middle Powers Project Forces in Distant Regions? The Case of France in the Indo-Pacific

French Nuclear Policy Towards Iran: From the Shah to the Islamic Republic

Persevering with bandwagoning, not hedging: why European security cooperation still conforms to realism

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