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While NATO remains the foundation of collective defense in the North Atlantic, the European Union is developing its common defense policy. Internationally, strategic partnerships are multiplying with great fluidity.

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Complementarity or Competition? Franco-British Cooperation and the European Horizon of French Defense Policy

Date de publication
23 April 2021
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What does future hold for the Franco-British defense partnership after Brexit?

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Circumstantial Pacifism: Political Parties and the Participation of the Bundeswehr in Foreign Operations

Date de publication
14 April 2021
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In Germany's parliamentary democracy, political parties play an important role in mandating Bundeswehr missions abroad and in overseeing their deployment. The political debate on these deployments is polarized between opponents, who are called “pacifists”, and supporters, who are called “militarists”.

Europe in the World: for a Modest and Effective Reform

Date de publication
16 December 2020
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This sad year ends with a pandemic that continues in full swing over a large part of the planet, especially in the United States and Europe, with no other reassuring prospect than that of one or more vaccines, which is already a lot. But that’s not the subject I want to focus on in this eighth letter, the last one for 2020. Internationally, two other facts have dominated the scene in recent months.

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The Franco-German Armaments Cooperation. An Impossible Agreement?

Date de publication
12 November 2020
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In the Aachen Treaty in 2019, Germany and France agree to deepen their "common program in defense matters" and to pursue a common vision in terms of arms export. These are the preconditions that will help consolidate a culture of common armed forces, common interventions, and European defense industry.

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Rivals in Arms: The Rise of UK-France Defence Relations in the Twenty-First Century

Date de publication
30 October 2020
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The untold story of the thriving yet complicated defense relationship of two countries caught between strategic decline and global ambitions. As the UK leaves the European Union and as the multilateral international order is increasingly under stress, bilateral security links are more important than ever. Among such relationships, the UK-France partnership has become particularly critical in the past decades.

Bavaria and France. Preparing the Future together

Date de publication
31 August 2020
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France and Bavaria have a longstanding close and solid partnership. However, the relationship between France and Bavaria is not only marked by a common history and by the structures created over the decades.

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Breakthrough for Decentralized Franco-German cooperation? Perspectives after the Aachen Treaty

Date de publication
05 June 2020
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The development of Franco-German cooperation can be described as an intergovernmental process. Depending on the perspective, the capacity for innovation of the relationship lies either with central decision-makers at the state level or with decentralized actors at the local level.

Andreas MARCHETTI
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What Does It Mean to Be a European Defense Company Today?

Date de publication
25 November 2019
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In many ways, defense firms in Europe should be pleased with the recent uptick in defense spending. 

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Envisioning Opportunities for U.S.-Russia Cooperation in and with Central Asia

Date de publication
26 April 2019
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Central Asia is conventionally seen as a conflicting space for great powers.

Marlène LARUELLE Andrey KORTUNOV

The Treaty of Aachen. New Impetus for Franco-German Defense Cooperation?

Date de publication
22 January 2019
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On 22 January 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel sign the Treaty of Aachen on “Franco-German Cooperation and Integration.” The document is set to complement the original Elysée Treaty from 1963, signed by President Charles de Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. 

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