Issue 4 May 2011
French African Foreign Policy under Nicolas Sarkozy
The fourth issue of Dynamiques Internationales offers to take stock of the African foreign policy of France under Nicolas Sarkozy. Ruptures and continuities in strategy and practices of France in Africa are highlighted, with a specific focus on francophone Africa. This issue is the first to be entirely translated in English.
Amandine Gnanguenon, Africa Research Fellow at Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire (IRSEM), is co-editor for this issue.
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Introduction, Amandine Gnanguenon, Research Fellow, IRSEM
« Nicolas Sarkozy’s African Foreign Policy in the context of Franco-Chadian Relations », Jean-Marie Chasles, Associate Fellow, Centre Thucydide
« Djibouti and Abu Dhabi: Rupture or Continuity in the National Security Strategy? », Patrick Ferras, Université Paris-8, Institut français de géopolitique
« France’s Policy Towards Africa within the Security Council from 2007 to 2010: a Real Multilateral Turn? », Hélène Gandois, University of Oxford
« President Sarkozy and Franco-Cameroonian Relations », Larissa Kojoue-Kamga, CEAN-IEP Bordeaux
« A Look at Nicolas Sarkozy’s African Policy in the French « backyard »", Sonia Le Gouriellec, Université Paris-Descartes
« France-Afrique: From Ancients to Moderns, » interview with Yves Gounin, Conseiller d’Etat, former Legal Advisor to the President of the Republic of Senegal
Book Review: Jean Pierre Chrétien, L’Afrique de Sarkozy, un déni d’histoire (Sarkozy’s Africa : Denying History), Francis Fogue Kuate, Center for Laboratory Research in Social Sciences