Les changements de la politique française d'exportations nucléaires (1974-1976) : un triple double jeu

Abstract

The Transformations of French Nuclear Export Policy (1974-1976) : A Triple Double Game A number of problems present themselves for any scholar seeking to take into account all determinations relating to “national” and “international” action in the analysis of foreign policy. In the domain of the French diplomatic practices of the mid-1970s – structured around the apparent issue of nuclear exports – archival consultation and interviews reveal that the various actors involved in this policy were not necessarily playing the same national and international “double game”. While relations between states shape what they are and do, the various effects of refraction at work at the internal level prevents one from speaking of a state taken uniformly across a space of competition. ■