Titlebook: Contemporary French Security Policy in Africa; On Ideas and Wars Benedikt Erforth Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)

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The Spectrum of a Closed Operatormes that influence perceptions, create interests, and eventually produce observable outcomes, the author reveals some of the mysteries of French decision-making. Although this study focuses on French security policy under the Hollande administration (2012–2017), its implications go beyond this specific period and the chosen cases.

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Book 2020ity provider in Africa. This book uncovers individual and collective motivations that drive French foreign and security policy in Africa. It explains French interventionism by drawing on actors’ subjective perceptions of reality and seeks to answer why French decision-makers are ready to accept the

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,Introduction: France’s New Interventionism in Africa,plain both the purpose and objectives of the study. By referring to the largely outcome-biased literature on French military activism, the author lays out the reasons for conducting a process-oriented and ideational analysis. Short outlines of the subsequent chapters conclude the introduction.

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Ever Just the Same? French Foreign and Security Policy in Africa,multilateralization of French military interventionism and by so doing establishes the context within which Operation Serval in Mali and Operation Sangaris in the Central African Republic are embedded.

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After the Storm,mes that influence perceptions, create interests, and eventually produce observable outcomes, the author reveals some of the mysteries of French decision-making. Although this study focuses on French security policy under the Hollande administration (2012–2017), its implications go beyond this specific period and the chosen cases.

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Book 2020considerable risks and costs involved in guaranteeing the security of African countries. Adopting an actor-centric constructivist ontology, the author traces the emergence and subsequent development of ideas throughout the decision-making processes that led to Operation Serval in Mali and Operation Sangaris in the Central African Republic.

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Ever Just the Same? French Foreign and Security Policy in Africa,king in Africa since the end of the Empire. Continuous French interventions and the re-emergence of seemingly old patterns of behavior suggest that a linear reading of history may not be the most suited approach to understand present French policies in Africa. The chapter’s last part focuses on the

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Agents, Structures, and Ideas,public offices and the holders’ personal interpretation of their roles are examined. The chapter proceeds in two steps. First, it identifies the dynamics of foreign policy decision-making from a theoretical perspective. Second, it identifies the central decision units that were responsible for the m