France and the Challenge of a New European Security Architecture

27 July 2025
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Alireza Ghazili
France has long been a driving force in the discourse on European security. In the late 2010s and early 2020s roughly coinciding with the first Trump presidency Paris began to more assertively and openly articulate and pursue its ideas about playing a significant role in guaranteeing the continents security and achieving European strategic autonomy. To realize its ideas France took two main actions:
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