Saving the Hegemony: French Perspective on the Changing World Order

... several recent initiatives, such reasoning can be interpreted as a signal of Paris’s leadership ambitions in building a dialogue between the global North and South on behalf of the former. Yet, amid another debacle suffered by French diplomacy on the African continent, these sentiments seemed more like an attempt to save the blushes by presenting the erstwhile neocolonialism clothed in a more alluring mantle. Useful recalcitrance Alexei Chikhchev: France and Africa: Another Fresh Start? Setting the French leader’s speech in a broader context, it is appropriate to recall that reflecting on the desired structure of the international system is not something new either to the foreign policy of the ...