La politique extérieure du parti socialiste

In: Politique étrangère: revue trimestrielle publiée par l'Institut Français des Relations Internationales, Volume 47, Issue 1, p. 33-44

Abstract

The foreign policy of the Socialist Party, by Jacques Huntzinger
A socialist foreign policy can only be understood on the basis of an analysis of the crisis which shakes up the contemporary world. This crisis of the international system includes three different crises which are imbricated: the crisis of the Western system, of the communist world and of the Third World. In this world crisis context, socialist France cannot stay inactive and has to conduct a dynamic foreign policy so as to keep: an independent France, because it is, with the economic power, the essential condition to influence the world events; a Western France, i.e involved in a Western world whose cement is the Atlantic Alliance as well as different economic bounds; a European France, an essential condition to allow France to play a role on the international arena; a France bound up with the Third World, backing the liberation movements in Central America and providing the developing countries with an increasing economical and technical aid.