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France's Africa policy under president Macron: good intentions, partial reform and the fiasco in the Sahel
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Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit
Abstract Since his election in 2017, President Emmanuel Macron has tried to distance himself from established and widely criticised patterns of France's Africa policy. He diversified relations with Africa in regional and substantive terms, integrated non-state actors and cultivated a comparatively open appro... mehr
Since his election in 2017, President Emmanuel Macron has tried to distance himself from established and widely criticised patterns of France's Africa policy. He diversified relations with Africa in regional and substantive terms, integrated non-state actors and cultivated a comparatively open approach to France’s problematic past on the continent. However, Macron's efforts to craft a narrative of change was overshadowed by path dependencies, above all the continuation of the military engagement in the Sahel and incoherent relations with autocratic governments. The involuntary military withdrawal first from Mali (2022), from Burkina Faso (2023) and finally from Niger (announced for late 2023) marks a historic turning point in Franco-African relations. The question is no longer whether relations between France and its former colonies will change; the real question is whether Paris will be able to shape this change or if it will be a mere bystander to a transformation that is largely driven by African actors. (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Frankreich; Außenpolitik; internationale Beziehungen; Afrika südlich der Sahara; Sahel-Zone; Mali; Westafrika; Reformpolitik; politischer Wandel; Wirtschaftsbeziehungen; Entwicklungspolitik; Erinnerungskultur; Vergangenheitsbewältigung; Kolonialismus
Klassifikation
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
Afrikapolitik; Macron, Emmanuel; Außenpolitisches Programm; Außenpolitische Neuorientierung; Einschätzung/Abschätzung; West African Economic and Monetary Union; CFA-Franc; Entwicklungspolitische Strategie; Erinnerungspolitik
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Erscheinungsort
Berlin
Seitenangabe
6 S.
Schriftenreihe
SWP Comment, 51/2023
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18449/2023C51
ISSN
2747-5107
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung