SARKOZY, FRANCE, AND NATO - Cicero foundation

1 SARKOZY, FRANCE, AND NATO WILL SARKOZY's RAPPROCHEMENT TO NATO BE SUSTAINABLE? MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN A shorter version of this article was published in THE NATIONAL INTEREST, No. 95, May/June 2008, with the title “I Say NATO, You Say No NATO”, pp. 92 – 96. Available online at I. Introduction Sarko ‘the American'? When the former French President, Chirac, left office in May 2007, some people in the White House and on Capitol Hill might have breathed private sighs of relief.

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