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This book describes the evolution of French defence policy since the end of the Cold War. For the past thirty years there have been significant changes to French defence policy as a result of several contextual evolutions. Changes include shifts in the global balance of power, new understandings of the notion of international security, economic downturns, and developments in European integration. Yet despite these changes, the purpose of France's grand strategy and its main principles have remained remarkably stable over time. This book identifies the incentives, representations and objectives of French defence policy. The authors examine the general mechanisms that influence policy change and military transformation in democracies, the importance of status-seeking in international relations, the processes of strategy-making by a middle power, and the dilemmas and challenges of security cooperation. By doing so the book raises a number of questions related to the ways states adjust (or not) their security policies in a transformed international system.

FRANCE--MILITARY POLICY

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FRANCE--MILITARY POLICY --- FRANCE--ARMED FORCES

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Jamis l'armee n'a autant fascine et incite de vocations. Les generaux deviennent des auteurs de best-sellers, les centres de recrutement et les ecoles d'officiers ne desemplisssent pas et la plupart des Francais ont desormais une bonne image de leur armee. Sans doute les actualites recentes - attentats, menaces terroristes, engagements de la France dans des conflits exterieurs ... - expliquent le basculement d'un pays pourtant historiquement antimilitariste. Cela semble d'ailleurs etre le cas un peu partout en Europe. Mais les raisons de ce nouvel engagement ne sont-elles pas plus profondes ? Alors que l'Etat et la societe offrent une image de delitement, l'armee apparait pour beaucoup comme le dernier ecrin du courage, de la dignite et de l'autorite, et comme l'ultime lieu d'une possible ascension sociale. L'armee peut-elle, doit-elle etre un modele pour la societe ? A-t-elle les moyens des ambitions que l'Etat met en elle pour defender le pays et le rang de la France dans le monde ?

FRANCE--ARMED FORCES --- FRANCE--MILITARY POLICY

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FRANCE--MILITARY POLICY --- FRANCE--ARMED FORCES --- WARFARE, CONVENTIONAL --- EUROPE--DEFENSES

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FRANCE--MILITARY POLICY --- FRANCE--ARMED FORCES --- FRANCE--NATIONAL SECURITY