FRANCE’S DEFENCE POLICY AFTER THE 2008 WHITE PAPER: FROM THE RETURN TO THE INTEGRATED COMMANDMENT OF NATO TO A STRONGER EUROPEAN DEFENCE POLICY
FRANCE’S DEFENCE POLICY AFTER THE 2008 WHITE PAPER: FROM THE RETURN TO THE INTEGRATED COMMANDMENT OF NATO TO A STRONGER EUROPEAN DEFENCE POLICY
Author(s): Caroline Timon
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: BCBP Beogradski centar za bezbednosnu politiku
Keywords: Defence Policy; White Paper (2008); National Security; NATO; EU
Summary/Abstract: In August 2007, thirteen year after the publication of the last White Paper on Defence, the French President Nicolas Sarkozy set up a Committee whose mission was to draft a new White Paper on Defence and National Security. The goal of such a document is to define the objectives of French defence and security policies for the next years and structure the spending decisions. After a year of consultations the new White Paper on Defence and National Security was finally published on June 17th 2008. In a more unstable and unpredictable world than in 1994, many questions and events have become interlinked and put people in a situation of greater vulnerability while making borders between internal and external challenges fade away. The drastic acceleration of good, services, persons and information exchanges has changed the economic, social and political environment.
- Page Count: 8
- Publication Year: 2012
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
