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The 'novelty' of Sarkozy's foreign policy towards NATO and the US : the long view

Keiger, JFV

Authors

JFV Keiger



Abstract

Nicolas Sarkozy's reintegration of NATO's military command in 2009 has been presented as radical, given the traditional Gaullist stance of an arm's length relationship with NATO and the US. This article argues first, the difficulty for any French political leader to alter radically the course of French foreign and defence policy; second, that Sarkozy's policy is merely conforming to a longer-term trend of negotiating between European and Atlantic positions dating from the beginning of the twentieth century

Citation

Keiger, J. (2010). The 'novelty' of Sarkozy's foreign policy towards NATO and the US : the long view. European Political Science, 9(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2010.7

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Jun 1, 2010
Publication Date Jun 1, 2010
Deposit Date May 21, 2010
Journal European Political Science
Print ISSN 1680-4333
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 9
Issue 2
Pages 1-10
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2010.7
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/eps.2010.7
Related Public URLs http://link.springer.com/journal/41304


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