Vers l’est: an analysis of the diplomatic, geopolitical and socio-political forces shaping French foreign policy in the Middle East
Journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year: 2019

The following discussion underlines the socio-political, geopolitical, and diplomatic factors that have directed, and continue to direct, French foreign policy in the Middle East. Paris’s diplomatic positions concerning the Middle East region during first five presidencies of the Fifth Republic will be examined extensively, in addition to an analytical representation of the development of contemporary French foreign policy itself. Furthermore, the electoral strength of French Jewish and Muslim c