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Contemporary French Security Policy in AfricaAgents, Structures, and Ideas

Contemporary French Security Policy in Africa: Agents, Structures, and Ideas [This chapter introduces the reader to the maze of foreign policy decision-making. In order to understand decision-making, both the formal function of 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 military interventions in Mali and the Central African Republic. The author offers a microfoundational analysis of decision-making that takes into account both individual agency and collectively shared norms and ponders on the mutual interactions between these two dimensions of the same process. The chapter concludes by outlining the decision-making processes at work in times of crises.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Contemporary French Security Policy in AfricaAgents, Structures, and Ideas

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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-17580-1
Pages
25 –50
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-17581-8_3
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[This chapter introduces the reader to the maze of foreign policy decision-making. In order to understand decision-making, both the formal function of 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 military interventions in Mali and the Central African Republic. The author offers a microfoundational analysis of decision-making that takes into account both individual agency and collectively shared norms and ponders on the mutual interactions between these two dimensions of the same process. The chapter concludes by outlining the decision-making processes at work in times of crises.]

Published: Jul 26, 2019

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