A Twilight Zone: Identity Crisis in French Geopolitics |
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| Authors: | Jacques Lévy |
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| Institution: | (1) Institut d'Études Politiques, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75337 Paris, France |
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| Abstract: | The paper initially describes some of the most important historical processes that have conditioned France's geopolitical position in the contemporary world. It discusses the current changes in France's geopolitics as a changing reality of international relations and as a changing discourse of scholars and experts, that reflects those real world changes. The paper focuses on French politics in Africa and on France's policy in Europe after the end of the Cold War. In Africa the French post-colonial empire with its close ties between domestic regimes, French business interests and the French state becomes unsustainable after the bipolar rivalry has been suspended. In Europe French policy can no longer be presented as either an independent view among a series of others (Europe des patries) nor as a successful effort to press French views by way of a larger European entity. The paper presents an overview of geopolitical literature written in France as a reflection of these conditions. |
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| Keywords: | French geopolitics French African policy French European policy |
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