Return to the Future:France’s New Flirtation with Afro-Realism
Return to the Future:France’s New Flirtation with Afro-Realism

Summary/Abstract: France’s latest bout of interventionism in Africa in 2013 (Mali, Central African Republic) has ed to harsh internal public scrutiny of Françafrique and its strategic rationale. France’s ontinued economic and security role in Sub-Saharan areas is out of step with its limited bility o sustain a standalone approach. To answer this shortfall, France appears more than ever ommitted to a multilateralisation of its actions, not least through a Europeanisation and fricanisation of its historical responsibilities in Africa. Its approach is likely to strengthen frica’s status as a focus of European Security and Defence Policy and may push Poland to nitiate a strategic reflection of its own interests in that part of the world.

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