Discord and collaboration in Franco-American relations : what can role theory tell us?
Journal: Cadmus - EUI Research Repository (European University Institute)
Year: 2011

France and the United States have enjoyed a set of complex relationships since 
the founding of the American and French republics. Sometimes the FrancoAmerican relationship has taken on the character of rival siblings: each has 
claimed that its revolutionary heritage best embodies the verities of the Enlightenment. At other times, the Franco-American relationship has been characterized 
by mutual admiration sustained by an American infatuation with French culture 
into the early twentieth centu