Anatol Lieven in ISN Security Watch | 'France's Ambitious, Uncertain Security Policy'
The Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program, Regional Policy
...The question of whether Sarkozy has secured a good deal for France is causing the French great concern as the new strategy unfolds.
Professor Anatol Lieven of Kings College London, author and expert on Euro-American relations, sees the deal as highly beneficial to France.
"The new NATO structures do come with one enormous condition, which is that Russia does not once again become an enemy. If NATO has to plan for the possibility of a war in Ukraine or Georgia, then France's new forces make no sense at all," Lieven told ISN Security Watch.
"From that point of view, the French approach of selective cooperation with the US, supporting the mission in Afghanistan but opposing US calls for NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia, does seem logical..." LINK
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