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A Post-Gaullist, Pro-American France?

Posted by Matt in December 11th, 2006

Since the suburban riots last August, the perception that France is in decline has become de rigueur in French, European, and American circles. Economically, culturally, educationally, militarily, diplomatically, and even gastronomically, France seems to have significantly diminished. But French foreign policy–which has become noticeably less anti-American since the Iraq war and tougher toward Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons–suggests that France may already be recovering from its déclinisme. A more pro-American France–a surreal idea for many foreign-affairs practitioners in Washington–may not be that far off.

Although the French have always loved to complain about their problems–the verb rouspéter, to whine, is synonymous with être, to be–what is happening now is more than the just the usual sourness that comes from being subservient to an overly centralized, administrative-law state. From the McDonald’s-hating, antiglobalist, anticapitalist extreme French Left to the McDonald’s-hating, antiglobalist, anticapitalist extreme French Right, no one really dissents from the view that France’s always-fragile glory has fractured. The Economist recently dedicated a fourteen-page special report to the country’s systemic maladies and their possible solutions (essentially, bring on Margaret Thatcher).

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