Loyalty or autonomy? Canadian and French divergent strategic behaviors in time of power transition
Faced with the decline of American power and the growing assertiveness of China and Russia, Washington’s main allies must make strategic choices in foreign policy and defense. Yet U.S. allies appear to be making quite divergent strategic choices in dealing with the transition of power. Representativ...
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| הוצא לאור ב: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/eccs, |
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| פורמט: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| שפה: | Anglais |
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Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies
2022
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| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | Faced with the decline of American power and the growing assertiveness of China and Russia, Washington’s main allies must make strategic choices in foreign policy and defense. Yet U.S. allies appear to be making quite divergent strategic choices in dealing with the transition of power. Representative of these strategic differences, France and Canada do not implement the same strategic behavior to adapt to these systemic changes. That NATO member countries with relatively similar interests adapt their foreign and defense policies in such diverse ways reveals, in our view, deeper differences on how these countries perceive threats to the international order; how they conceive the ongoing power transition; and each state’s relative capability to change its foreign policy. In this mainly descriptive paper, we therefore intend to characterize both allies’ behaviors in time of power transition, relatively to these three axes of divergence. |
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