8 mai<\/a> sur son site personnel. Elle est conforme, \u00e0 notre sens, \u00e0 la lucidit\u00e9 et \u00e0 la mesure de l’historien, grand connaisseur des n\u00e9cessit\u00e9s de toute politique ext\u00e9rieure, et particuli\u00e8rement celle de la France. Elle expose un scepticisme fond\u00e9 pour l’hypoth\u00e8se de changements importants dans cette politique, parce que les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la France restent ce qu’ils sont. (Bien entendu, et fort justement, Pfaff centre son analyse sur les relations de la France avec les USA et tout ce qui en d\u00e9coule.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00ab The main interest for Americans and the American government is whether French foreign policy will change. The answer is yes, but not as much as people may think.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe subject was almost entirely absent from the campaign debates. That is an indication that the policy of outgoing president Jacques Chirac enjoyed a large consensus of support.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSarkozy prominently presented himself as a friend of the United States during an American visit last year, and criticized the manner by which the Chirac government had opposed UN Security Council support for the invasion of Iraq in 2003, but he has also said that he agrees with France’s decision to oppose the war.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOn the night of his election victory he said, I want to tell [Americans] that France will always be by their side when they need her, but I also want to tell them that friendship is accepting that one’s friends can act differently. He added criticism of the Bush administration for its stubborn refusal to do more on climate change.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWhen national leaders change there is an inclination to overrate the importance of human relations. People think that international affairs are heavily influenced, if not ruled, by the personal opinions and mutual relationships of leaders who like to refer to one another as their great friends, and put on silly clothes for group photographs. Americans have not forgotten George W. Bush’s peering into the soul of Vladimir Putin the first time they met, and finding him good.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSarkozy might like Americans more than Jacques Chirac did, but Chirac really did like the U.S., worked there for a time as a young man, and speaks serviceable English none of which is true of Sarkozy, whose English is primitive, and who should know better than to try to speak it in public.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHowever, as his election-night speech indicated, France’s national interests and public opinion will determine French policy, once the protocol niceties are set aside.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 11 mai 2007 \u00e0 16H27<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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