title: France and Security in the New Europe: Between the Gaullist Legacy and the Search for a New Model
abstract: This chapter reviews France's security policy after the Revolutions of 1989, single out the challenges France has to face in the long term, and discusses some possible options for the years to come. Since 1989, two recurrent themes have pervaded most discussions of French security policy after the collapse of the &quot;Yalta System.&quot; First, policy has generally been assessed against the yardstick of the Gaullist experience. Second, building on that assessment, it has become commonplace to a