Video Several candidates surf on the perspective of a “decline” of French power. But where is the power of influence of France in 2022?
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Brutal withdrawal of the military in Mali, rupture of the “contract of the century” by Australia, absence of French vaccine against Covid … French failures on the international scene accumulate until inviting in the presidential campaign. But what about the state of French power? What remains of the “grandeur” of France defended by General de Gaulle, then embodied by the nuclear weapon and its permanent headquarters to the UN Security Council? To know it, you have to go back in time and come back to an event that has changed everything.
In this seventh episode of the series “Mappemonde”, the video team of the “world” wonders and questions the former President of the Republic, François Hollande: What does “be a great power” means? France is it one?
The other episodes of the series “Mappemonde”:
- Episode 1 – New Caledonia: the last French colony
- Episode 2 – Why China invests Africa
- Episode 3 – What does Putin Russia want?
- Episode 4 – Why Turkey attacks Kurds?
- Are Episode 5 – Are the United States still the gendarme of the world?
- Episode 6 – South Africa: The Mapidation of Apartheid
Sources:
- France in the world, under the direction of Frederic Chaillon, CNRS Editions, 2021
- France in the upheaval of the world, Michel Duclos, Editions of the Observatory, 2021
- France, an upset power, under the direction of Bertrand Badie and Dominique Vidal, the discovery, 2022
- Cheetah weather, Michel Goya, Tallandier, 2022
- Report of the IRSEM dedicated to OpenEx , CRP Marie-Capucine Vauzanges, 2021
- GDP from France in 1939 , Angus Maddison
- American bases in France in 1966
- French embassies and consulates abroad
- French maritime spaces
- EY study on the economic attractiveness of France
- “The day Obama dropped Holland”, Le Monde