FranceThe Diplomatic Profile

Maya HumbatovaOlga Danyukova

General Profile

French Diplomacy played a big role in shaping modern international diplomacy

Conservative

Tough

Purposeful

Strategic Autonomy

Diplomacy of distinctiveness and legality

Diplomatic Past

o Cardinal de Richelieu

-negotiationso Charles De Gaulle-”de grandeur”o Mendes France-”politics of choice”o Jack Chirac-”movement

diplomacy”

Diplomatic Style and Methods

Multilateralism-Multilateral World Order Bilateralism-Franco-German

relations Summits-G8 Personal Diplomacy-Nicolas Sarkozy International

Organizations-EU, UN

France and EU

Member of the European Union in the 1950s.  

It’s permanent representation in the European Union plays a key role in expressing France’s positions within the European institutions

France and EU Strength of the global economic and

political influence of the EU Its role in common European defense. Development of a Common Security

and Defense Policy (CSDP) with other EU members

Led the way in implementing the Schengen agreement (open borders for people) and EMU

France and EU

France cooperating with Germany, and Britain persuade Iran to accept International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections of its nuclear energy sites

Want the EU to have a strong Commission and a strong President of the Commission but Council, must remain paramount in decision making

France and EU

Supported “qualified majority voting (QMV)”

Failed in the first stages of an EU immigration and asylum policy

Did not gain much in advancing a nascent security and defense policy (ESDP)

France and EU

Develop EU missions under the mandate of the UN. France failed to encourage

the more European response in Lebanon

Often use of force for military operations abroad within the EU, the UN or NATO.

Opposed Turkey’s candidacy for EU membership

Lebanon Prime Minister Saad Hariri

Religion issues Ban “conspicuous”

religious symbols in schools. Prohibiting the wear of head scarves, religious symbols, such as large crosses and the yarmulke.

Sarkozy’s domestic “arab policy”

“The burqa is not a religious sign. It is a sign of the subjugation, of the

submission, of women”

“We cannot accept in our country

women imprisoned behind bars, cut off

from social life, deprived of identity.”

Sarkozy and EU

Conservative French interpretation of the EU law on immigration policies

Sovereignty vs. EU law

Foreign Policy Principles

The construction of Europe

International security Action at the UN International

cooperation Humanitarian action The fight against

terrorism Protect the french in

the world

Conclusion

New energetic style rhetoric and vision

Nicolas Sarkozy did not bring any significant changes to the diplomacy

Diplomacy of France is a modern type of “grandeur” and marked by continuity

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