October 2023
Intermediate to advanced
570 pages
24h 55m
English
French strategic culture could be summed up in the two statements: “doing foreign policy with military means,” and inconsistent behavior stemming from “a tension between being a country of human rights per se and at the same time being a country resting on self-reliance and independence.”1 The first statement points to the acceptance of a strong and costly military with large deployments abroad, whose presence is aimed at defending international norms and liberal democratic values. The second statement refers to the pursuit of contradicting strategies prioritizing national defense interests while simultaneously ...
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