A new Enténte Cordiale?
Julian Lindley French wrote a very interesting article on the International Herald Tribune of September 16, 2006, titled “ Britain and France need to lead, together ”. His thesis is that “ fifty years after Suez, Britain and French should forge a new partnership… founded on four principles of strategic leadership: the global West; a strategic Atlantic alliance; a robust EU; effective European homeland security… There are only two countries that can save Europe from the self-deluding isolationism into which it is tipping: Britain and France ”. The article matches many of my core paper’s ("Is there a West?") conclusions about the origin of the modern West being in the alliance between France and UK, the Enténte Cordiale . I totally agree with the sentence “ The West is no longer a place but an idea built around democratic security governance ”. Still - while I do not understand what Lindley French means by a “ Global West ” (a sort of spontaneous club of democracies, or the ex...