Contemporary French security policy in Africa : on ideas and wars / Benedikt Erforth.

"Erforth makes a notable contribution to our understanding of foreign policy decision-making. He convincingly demonstrates that French interventions in Mali and the Central African Republic were the result of competition among actors with different mental maps and belief systems." --Richar...

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Main Author: Erforth, Benedikt (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Series:CERI series in international relations and political economy.
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction: France's New Interventionism in Africa -- 2. Ever Just the Same? French Foreign and Security Policy in Africa -- 3. Agents, Structures, and Ideas -- 4. Securitizing Mali: No Free Ride for Terrorists in Francophone Africa -- 5. Avoiding a Second Rwanda: Peacekeeping in the Central African Republic -- 6. After the Storm. 
520 |a "Erforth makes a notable contribution to our understanding of foreign policy decision-making. He convincingly demonstrates that French interventions in Mali and the Central African Republic were the result of competition among actors with different mental maps and belief systems." --Richard N. Lebow, FBA, Professor of International Political Theory, King's College London, UK "Erforth spins a fascinating tale of François Hollande's interventions in Mali and CAR. He shows how simultaneous attention to both process and ideation can aid theoretical development in Foreign Policy Analysis." --Valerie M. Hudson, Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University, USA "The book makes an important and innovative contribution not only to the policy-making processes that led to these two operations, but more broadly to our understanding of recent developments in French African policy." --Tony Chafer, Professor of French and African Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK Despite efforts to normalize its post-colonial relationship and the downsizing of its permanent military presence, France remains a sought-after security provider in Africa. This book uncovers individual and collective motivations that drive French foreign and security policy in Africa. It explains French interventionism by drawing on actors' subjective perceptions of reality and seeks to answer why French decision-makers are ready to accept the considerable risks and costs involved in guaranteeing the security of African countries. Adopting an actor-centric constructivist ontology, the author traces the emergence and subsequent development of ideas throughout the decision-making processes that led to Operation Serval in Mali and Operation Sangaris in the Central African Republic. Benedikt Erforth holds a PhD in International Studies from the University of Trento and has taught international relations and EU politics at Sciences Po Paris, France. 
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