FRANCE: Afghanistan, G20 presidency top Sarkozy’s foreign policy agenda

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has unveiled an ambitious agenda for France’s forthcoming G20 presidency and ruled out an early exit from Afghanistan in a speech detailing his foreign policy priorities for the coming year. Read More

Tradition and Adaptation: The Social Universe of the French Foreign Ministry in the Era of the First World War

Attempts to ‘republicanize’ and ‘democratize’ the Quai d’Orsay before 1900 had limited impact on the practices and predispositions of the foreign ministry personnel. More important was the ministry’s response to changes in the international sphere in the late nineteenth century and again after the First World War. The explosion of international trade and introduction of [...]

Formation and Foreign Policy: Biography and Ego-Histoire

‘International’ history has grown from a time when ‘diplomatic’ history focused mainly on diplomats into a sub-discipline that makes connections between foreign policy and every thread of a nation’s human and material fabric. Welcome as this development has been, the human face is sometimes lost in this struggle for greater breadth and depth. This article [...]