France: ''Europeanization'
France: ”Europeanization” or Interaction? Georges Couffignal To cite this version: Georges Couffignal. France: ”Europeanization” or Interaction?. Lorena Ruano. Europeanization and National Foreign Policies Towards Latin America, Routledge, pp.89-111, 2012. halshs-00648420 HAL Id: halshs-00648420 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00648420 Submitted on 1 Feb 2013 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Author manuscript, published in "Europeanization and National Foreign Policies Towards Latin America, London and New York (2012) ..." 1 France: “Europeanization” or Interaction? Georges Couffignal Political Science Professor Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle Sera publié in Lorena Ruano, ed., Europeanization and National Foreign Policies Towards Latin America , London and New York, Routledge, 2012. Introduction Despite the ambiguity surrounding most of the terms used in this study, which are discussed in the first section, this chapter attempt to identify the interactions, the interferences and interdependencies that exist between the external policies of France, and the external policies of Europe towards Latin America. When examined over the course of an extensive period, four distinctive phases can be observed: The first one fits into an upload perspective, as France tried to pressure the EEC into acting on behalf of French strategic interests on the international stage in Latin America.
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