Verso una nuova frattura transatlantica?
9/9/2006Analisi scritta per il P.I.N.R. dopo le dichiarazioni di Bush sull’Iran (comparato ad al-Qaida) e la risposta francese con Douste-Blazy e Villepin.
Although France — together with Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg — already showed its disagreement with Washington’s war on terrorism and its Middle East policy back in 2003, Paris ended up more isolated than expected in the following years and tried to recover the transatlantic relationship.
However, it also signaled that a change in Washington’s Middle East strategy was needed in order to build up a new, more effective and balanced Euro-Atlantic cooperation.
If the United States abandons the diplomatic option in the Iran crisis and opts for the use of force, it is unlikely that Paris will side with Washington unless it is totally isolated by the other E.U. members and by Russia and China.
Should a new transatlantic rift occur only three years after the Iraq war, the viability of a structured, consistent Euro-American security strategy would be seriously challenged.
