Franco-British Defence Co-operation in the Context of Brexit

Faure, Samuel B. H.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97169-8_5

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“…Their cooperation was based on a community of fate premised on the need to look for new ways to project their power abroad. The emphasis on capabilities has been driving their relationship ever since, and we do not expect it to abet after Brexit (Faure, ).…”

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In Search of Lost Time: Memory‐framing, Bilateral Identity‐making, and European Security

Hofmann

Mérand

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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Bilateral relations between France and either Germany or the UK are the backbone of European security and defence cooperation. From a strategic and cultural point of view, these relations are not self‐evident. In this article, we track the memory‐framing processes accompanying the creation of major bilateral initiatives. Leaders such as Adenauer and De Gaulle, Mitterrand and Kohl, Blair and Chirac, and Sarkozy and Cameron imagined bilateral communities of fate informed by mutually understandable historical memories: the World Wars for the Franco‐German relationship and the Empire for the Franco‐British relationship. Based on these memory frames, Franco‐German identity undergirds a policy‐based integration of core state powers while Franco‐British identity informs capacity‐building and force projection (a resource‐based integration). These bilateral identities led to earmarking national military forces for common purposes and intertwined defence industries. In some cases, they also provided an impetus for EU cooperation in the context of the Common Foreign and Security Policy or the Common Security and Defence Policy.

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In Search of Lost Time: Memory‐framing, Bilateral Identity‐making, and European Security

Hofmann

Mérand

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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“…Moreover, an armaments programme spanning several decades, so that the Rafale programme is the direct predecessor of the bargaining under way in Europe since the end of the 2010s. Indeed, the SCAF programme defended by France, Germany, and Spain is opposed to the Tempest programme supported by the United Kingdom, Italy, and Sweden (Faure, 2019). There is, therefore, a direct interest in understanding the policy process in the 1980s for anyone interested in the future combat air system, and more broadly advanced military technology.…”

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Defeating the Austerians of the warfare state: French arms policy through the lens of the Programmatic Action Framework

Faure

2020

European Policy Analysis

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This article contributes to the development of the Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) based on the case study of the procurement of the French Rafale fighter jet rather than the American F‐18 by the French government in the 1980s. This decision making dilemma is explained by revealing the competition between two “programmatic cliques.” The “sovereignist” programmatic clique that defends the French option embodies the Custodians of the nation state. The “liberal” programmatic clique that supports the American alternative represents the Austerians of the nation state. The defeat of the Austerians of the French nation warfare state is explained by the ties weakness available to the liberal programmatic clique at the political level of decision making. To this end, 89 semi‐structured interviews were conducted with the political‐military and industrial arms actors.

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“…Some argue that Brexit would effectively damage the EU's common security and defence policy (CSDP) (Dijkstra, ; Duke, ; Menon, ); others believe that it opens a window of opportunity for closer integration, as the EU's “awkward” member will no longer interfere in this process (Biscop, ). While the UK's strategic culture means the country is a key security actor across the world (Faure, ) its security strategy has historically focused on the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) and bilateral relations with France, and the UK blocked a series of EU initiatives, such as the establishment of a separate budget for the European defence agency or the establishment of an EU military headquarters (Smith, ). Yet the UK has also been a contributor to the CSDP, especially in the Balkans, as well as the lead nation of the EU Naval Force in Somalia.…”

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Differentiated (Dis)integration in Practice: The Diplomacy of Brexit and the Low Politics of High Politics

Svendsen¹,

Adler‐Nissen

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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This article advances a practice approach to differentiated (dis)integration in European security and defence in light of Brexit. We propose that understanding how differentiation in the area of security and defence is given meaning on the ground requires examining the everyday social practices of officials and military professionals. Therefore, we focus on the ‘low politics’ of security and defence cooperation in Europe. We do so by entering the diplomatic engine room in the EU's Political and Security Committee (PSC). We show how arguments that Brexit will either be the ultimate death blow to the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) or that it will be the catalyst for deeper military cooperation fail to take account of the social dynamics and the historical path of security and military cooperation in Europe. Future research on differentiation should pay particular attention to how such dynamics play out in the everyday social negotiation of meaning among practitioners.

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Franco-British Defence Co-operation in the Context of Brexit

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

In Search of Lost Time: Memory‐framing, Bilateral Identity‐making, and European Security

In Search of Lost Time: Memory‐framing, Bilateral Identity‐making, and European Security

Defeating the Austerians of the warfare state: French arms policy through the lens of the Programmatic Action Framework

Differentiated (Dis)integration in Practice: The Diplomacy of Brexit and the Low Politics of High Politics

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