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EURATOM: Bridging Rapprochement and Radiance of France in the Post-war
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- Issue Date
- 2013-12
- Citation
- Journal of International and Area Studies, Vol.20 No.2, pp. 51-65
- Keywords
- EURATOM ; France ; Foreign Policy Identification ; the Cold War ; European Integration ; Nuclear Development
- Abstract
- This article interrogates the question of how France was able to achieve their policy goals, radiance of France (nuclear development), in respect to the relations with those in the post-war
alliance, rapprochement of France (European integration). It argues that Frances membership in
EURATOM provided a venue for pursuance of its political autonomy via rhetorical actions which I
labelled, agree-and-deepen policy, was precisely one such mechanism through which this was done.
In so doing, I open the discussion with critiques to the Rationalist Materialist account on the French
motivation to become a member of EURATOM; namely that France joined EURATOM to accomplish
its nuclear ambition through exploiting all the available sources of EURATOM and the false
controversies contained within the EURATOM defence clause. Next, an alternative explanation is
provided in regards to the influence of EURATOM over France by tracing the path in which the French
foreign policy identity was reconstructed in the post-war period via EURATOM under the framework
of agree-and-deepen policy. Finally, it concludes that EURATOM provided France leeway for
legitimate nuclear development, which satisfied two policy goals demanded by Others and desired by
the French Self, without negatively impacting on the French relations with Others.
- ISSN
- 1226-8550
- Language
- English
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