La coopération franco-britannique face aux opérations extérieures à travers l’ONU
The French-British cooperation and the issue of external operations under the UN mandate

Summary/Abstract: Between France and Great Britain there is a special relation, based on their common historic experiences and episodes of alliances and partnership: the two World Wars and the Cold War cemented their very strong partnership. In the last decade, Paris and London cooperated very closely within UN Security Council and also within NATO and EU, with the aim of establishing the regional security and order against actors which perturbed the status quo. In 1956 the French Prime minister came to London with the proposal of making a political union between France and UK, but the British politicians rejected the proposal as unrealistic. Now, Paris and London are both nuclear powers and permanent members with the UN Security Council They know that only together they could still influence the strategic calculus and behaviour of the USA towards Europe in the defence field. But their strong cooperation is sometimes seen as a danger for the trans-Atlantic link, especially by conservative people in the USA and UK.

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