French Interventionism
Subtitle: Europe's Last Global Player
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780754631798
Subjects: Technology & Industrial Arts; Politics/International Relations; Military policy; Political Science; Security, International; Military Science; Central government policies; International relations; International Relations - General; France; National security
First sentence: This chapter considers General Charles de Gaulle as the driving force behind the creation and ultimate success, in terms of stability and durability at least, of the Fifth Republic.
Description: "This volume makes the distinction between the fundamental objectives of French security policy and the tactical adaptations made to achieve them as the central theme that gives coherence. The primary emphasis is on France's place in the world and on how efforts have been made to restore and then maintain claims to national greatness and elevated global standing. It also offers detailed examinations of various military interventions both multilateral as in the case of the Gulf and former-Yugoslavia and unilaterally as in sub-Saharan Africa."

"His text brings together the foreign policy and security policy dimensions that relate to France's relations with the wider world, and France's global ambitions which have been so much of a stimulus to the French political elite during the Fifth Republic."--Jacket.