title: Discord and collaboration in Franco-American relations : what can role theory tell us?
abstract: France and the United States have enjoyed a set of complex relationships since 
  the founding of the American and French republics. Sometimes the FrancoAmerican relationship has taken on the character of rival siblings: each has 
  claimed that its revolutionary heritage best embodies the verities of the Enlightenment. At other times, the Franco-American relationship has been characterized 
  by mutual admiration sustained by an American infatuation with French culture 
  into the early twentieth centu
journal: Cadmus - EUI Research Repository (European University Institute)