France’s Military Politics
Ship 'em out This May, the rising socialist star Ségolène Royal branded Jacques Chirac’s decision to end compulsory military service in 2001 “a mistake.” Troublesome teenagers should be sent to…
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Ship 'em out This May, the rising socialist star Ségolène Royal branded Jacques Chirac’s decision to end compulsory military service in 2001 “a mistake.” Troublesome teenagers should be sent to…
On the face of it, the changeover – now virtually certain by June at the latest – will be a marked set-back for the EU. Gone will be a man…
Instead, the EU representatives at Helsinki, led by Finnish premier Matti Vanhanen and Commission president Jose-Manuel Barroso seem set to propose a new and much more ambitious Partnership and Co-operation…
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Download PDFAlex de Waal is programme director for the Commossion for HIV/Aids and governance in Africa, and a director of Justice Africa. A longer version of this essay appears in "Unbinding…
Download PDFA public roundtable on Empire chaired by Michael Portillo with Mark Leonard, Phillip Bobbitt, Robert Cooper, Lindsay Hilsum, Michael Gove and Naomon Muna
Download PDFJack Straw delived a speech on Europe to the Foreign Policy Centre on 28 August 2003
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