Les républicains et la politique étrangère américaine: quelles perspectives pour 2016 ?
The future candidates for the 2016 Republican presidential primary will be expected to develop a clear foreign policy agenda and prove the GOP’s credibility on foreign affairs issue.
While unilateralists and internationalists currently argue about the most pertinent ideological posture for the Republican Party, there are several schools of thought on foreign policy that have been prevalent, turn after turn, on the right. Only the candidates who will have developed a clear and serious platform will appear as viable candidates.
This paper is published in French only – Les républicains et la politique étrangère américaine : quelles perspectives pour 2016 ?
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Laurence NARDON
Research Fellow, Head of the Americas Program, Ifri
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