Recommended: France's Strategy

STRATFOR has issued another of it's insightful analyses, this one entitled France's Strategy. It reviews Frances recent history (since 1815) and discusses how that has shaped France's foreign policy strategy, especially under President de Gaulle. The author argues that even though France's new president Francois Hollande is a socialist, and hence nominally against the de Gaulle view of affairs, he will nevertheless be forced, eventually and perhaps reluctantly, to follow the same policies his predecessors have been following.