Back to the future? Franco-African relations in the shadow of France's past
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Back to the future? Franco-African relations in the shadow of France's past. / Majumdar, Margaret; Chafer, Tony.
The end of the French exception?: decline and revival of the 'French model'. French politics, society and culture. ed. / Tony Chafer; Emmanuel Godin. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. p. 203-220.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Back to the future? Franco-African relations in the shadow of France's past
AU - Majumdar, Margaret
AU - Chafer, Tony
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - France is a country unlike any other. It has special responsibilities inherited from its history and the universal values that it has helped to forge. France must insist that Europe is powerful, political and upholds our social model. In these few words, delivered on television in his valedictory speech to the French nation on 11 March 2007, former President Jacques Chirac summed up what has come to be deemed exceptional in France’s relations with the European Union (EU). First is the claim made by a succession of French political leaders that France is unlike any other country in the EU or indeed, as in Chirac’s statement, any other country on earth. Second is a set of interlocking strategic objectives for France in Europe that appear exceptionally inflexible and, in some respects anachronistic. These strategies revolve around the ambition for a European entity that is a powerful world actor, that is constructed by a political France is a country unlike any other. It has special responsibilities inherited from its history and the universal values that it has helped to forge. (….) France must insist that Europe is powerful, political and upholds our social model. 1 In these few words, delivered on television in his valedictory speech to the French nation on 11 March 2007, former President Jacques Chirac summed up what has come to be deemed exceptional in France’s relations with the European Union (EU). First is the claim made by a succession of French political leaders that France is unlike any other country in the EU or indeed, as in Chirac’s statement, any other country on earth. Second is a set of interlocking strategic objectives for France in Europe that appear exceptionally inflexible and, in some respects anachronistic. These strategies revolve around the ambition for a European entity that is a powerful world actor, that is constructed by a political process, and which has a distinct identity in the global capitalist system.
AB - France is a country unlike any other. It has special responsibilities inherited from its history and the universal values that it has helped to forge. France must insist that Europe is powerful, political and upholds our social model. In these few words, delivered on television in his valedictory speech to the French nation on 11 March 2007, former President Jacques Chirac summed up what has come to be deemed exceptional in France’s relations with the European Union (EU). First is the claim made by a succession of French political leaders that France is unlike any other country in the EU or indeed, as in Chirac’s statement, any other country on earth. Second is a set of interlocking strategic objectives for France in Europe that appear exceptionally inflexible and, in some respects anachronistic. These strategies revolve around the ambition for a European entity that is a powerful world actor, that is constructed by a political France is a country unlike any other. It has special responsibilities inherited from its history and the universal values that it has helped to forge. (….) France must insist that Europe is powerful, political and upholds our social model. 1 In these few words, delivered on television in his valedictory speech to the French nation on 11 March 2007, former President Jacques Chirac summed up what has come to be deemed exceptional in France’s relations with the European Union (EU). First is the claim made by a succession of French political leaders that France is unlike any other country in the EU or indeed, as in Chirac’s statement, any other country on earth. Second is a set of interlocking strategic objectives for France in Europe that appear exceptionally inflexible and, in some respects anachronistic. These strategies revolve around the ambition for a European entity that is a powerful world actor, that is constructed by a political process, and which has a distinct identity in the global capitalist system.
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9780230220782
SP - 203
EP - 220
BT - The end of the French exception?: decline and revival of the 'French model'. French politics, society and culture
A2 - Chafer, Tony
A2 - Godin, Emmanuel
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Basingstoke
ER -
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