"Il y a la France; il y a l'Afrique. Le temps de la Françafrique est... réincarné"? Exploring the drivers and character of French Security Policy in

“Il y a la France；il y a lAfrique。Le temps de la Françafrique est...réincarné”？

基本信息

批准号：
1952906
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
University of Portsmouth
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1952906
关键词：
Il la France il Afrique.

项目摘要

Despite promising to reduce France's involvement in Africa after decades of 'Françafrique', thepresidency of François Hollande has seen one of the most activist periods of French engagement inAfrica in recent history - especially in response to violent jihadist Salafist groups both at home and inWest Africa (WA). In addition to renewed activism, the character of France's actions has shifted fromdirect engagement with regional organisations to novel bilateral security interventions. My proposedthesis will examine the contradiction between Hollande's initial objectives and this period of Frenchintervention with a view to understanding the drivers of and the shape taken by French security policyin WA. It will explore how, in a period of 'power diffusion' to non-state actors and globalinterconnectedness, local and global threats are increasingly blurred and intertwined, driving France -as a global player - back into West African security to support local allies. Focusing on the strategicallysignificant WA region this thesis will 1) examine the domestic and foreign policy considerations thatmotivated French involvement; 2) explore the new and innovative character of recent Frenchinterventions in the region; 3) assess how these interventions have been legitimised and 4) contributeto conceptual and theoretical debates on contemporary security and intervention.

尽管在“法兰西非洲”数十年之后承诺减少法国对非洲的参与，但弗朗索瓦·奥朗德总统任期内经历了近代历史上法国参与非洲最积极的时期之一——特别是在应对国内和西非的暴力圣战萨拉菲组织时(WA) 除了新的激进主义之外，法国行动的性质也从与区域组织的直接接触转变为新颖的双边安全干预。奥朗德的最初目标和法国干预这一时期的目的是了解法国在西澳的安全政策的驱动因素和所采取的形式，它将探讨在“权力扩散”到非国家行为体和全球相互联系的时期，地方和全球如何。威胁日益模糊和交织，促使法国作为全球参与者重新介入西非安全以支持当地盟友，本文将重点关注具有重要战略意义的西澳地区：1）研究激励法国的国内和外交政策考虑。参与；2）探索法国最近在该地区的干预措施的新特征和创新性；3）评估这些干预措施如何合法化；4）促进有关当代安全和干预措施的概念和理论辩论。