France Has Big Plans for the Indo-Pacific

France Has Big Plans for the Indo-Pacific

The future of French Indo-Pacific strategy may lie in Paris’ ability to “Europeanize” its approach.

 

Jean-Loup Samaan is a senior research fellow at the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore and a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council. A former policy advisor with the French Ministry of Defense and NATO, he is the author, with Frederic Grare, of The Indian Ocean as a New Political and Security Region (Palgrave, 2022).

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