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  • Just defending national interests? Understanding French policy towards Iraq since the end of the Gulf War
    Macleod, Alex
    If we limit ourselves to a rationalist interpretation of French policy towardsIraq after the Gulf War, then we will get an incomplete picture of the reasons driving that policy. In particular, we ... will not be able to explain such anomalies as the French decision to use the veto against a United States-inspired draft resolution in the United Nations Security Council, and which would appear contrary to realist expectations. In the place of rationalist approaches, this article proposes an identity-based interpretation, which can account for changes in national identity, and which includes the fight for recognition by other international actors of the various identities assumed by France during this period. It then offers an analysis of French policy towards Iraq, first during the period of United Nations sanctions against that country, and then in the run-up to the United States decision to go to war, which contradicts a very prevalent American viewthat France was simply following a policy based on a very selfish conception of national interest aimed at countering the United States at everyturn. It concludes with a brief reflection on the very mixed results of French policy in terms of promoting and defending certain identities and the struggle for recognition
    Vir: Journal of international relations and development. - ISSN 1408-6980 (Vol. 7, no. 4, December 2004, Str. [356]-387)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 2004
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 23690589

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    http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jird/journal/v7/n4/abs/1800032a.html

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