Old Wine in New Bottles? French Security and Defence Policy under Nicolas Sarkozy

Etienne de Durand recently gave a speech before the Institute for International and European Affairs of Dublin, on “French Security and Defence Policy under Nicolas Sarkozy“.

The IIEA has been kind enough to put the video online on Youtube, so we’ve inserted it here. Since it lasts almost 45 minutes, here’s the outline of the speech:

• Introduction
• Where do we come from? Traditional French or Gaullist Policy (starts at 3’10″)
  • Origins
  • Defense policy during the 1990s
  • The Iraq war and afterwards
• Sarkozy’s New Look Policy, the FR-UK Deal and Its Implications (starts at 17’30″)
  • French security policy under Sarkozy
  • Sarkozy’s military policy and FR-UK deal
• Conclusion (starts at 41’38″)

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