Gérard Araud – France needs Gaullism 2.0

DIn our democracies, foreign policy is seldom a decisive factor in an election campaign. There is no reason for it to be any different in April 2022 in France. We can therefore bet that, in the debates which will precede the two rounds of the presidential election, a folding seat will be reserved for him at the end of the evening, which will allow the candidates to get away with generalities and approximations, as was the case in 2017. .

However, citizens would have the right to ask for more details on the foreign policy that the winner will intend to lead at a time when the world is changing era. From 1945 to 1990, France could have been “the poacher of the cold war”, an ally of the United States but not aligned with all their policies in what some have called the “ga synthesis …