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Criticisms of Security Council : Ignored by Members : French Unilateralism
- French Act Unilaterally When Their Interests are at Stake
-- France is a world-beater at using international institutions to constrain others (notably the United States) while ignoring them when its own national interests are in play. Rather than laughing French opposition off, its hypocrisy actually obscures its skillful ability to make others think it plays by international standards when in reality it uses or ignores multilateral institutions to suit its own purposes.
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- French Interventionism in Africa
-- For a country that has displayed unrelenting opposition to the US intervention in Iraq, France appears to be basking in the global populist imagination as the country that not only invented the concept of "non-intervention" in other countries' internal affairs, but is guided by this principle in its own policy. However, contrary to prevailing international perception, France has the worst record of Northern World power state military intervention in the Southern World.
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- French Unilateralism
-- For the Foreign Minister of a nation that regularly decries American "unilateralism", the threat to veto a UN Security Council resolution seems a little…well…unilateral. After all, if the UN Security Council authorizes such a resolution, how could a French veto be seen as anything but a unilateral attempt to thwart the will of the international community? Evidently, the French don't particularly object to unilateralist policies per se, they just object to them when they're U.S. policies.
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- The French Have Their Own Program
-- France wants to be the leading power in the new united Europe-a Europe united not by anti-fascism or anti-communism, but by anti-Americanism, a force now rampant in Western Europe...
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- The French Interventionist Itch
-- The French are getting that interventionist itch again. It strikes them every so often, with no apparent pattern. There seems to be neither a temporal rhythm nor a moral or geopolitical issue that kicks it off, unless it is the very idea that some Frenchman, somewhere in the world, may be in some danger.
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