Falk Ostermann is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Giessen, Germany. He specializes in French security and defense policy and studies NATO, European defense, identity, and discourse analysis. He has published, inter alia, in European Security, International Relations, and West European Politics.

"Thanks to this book, the reader undeniably has the keys to analyse the recent declarations of the President of the Republic on this matter. Ostermann’s theoretical approach thus distinguishes itself from other analyses of French foreign policy by carefully detailing the significance of key concepts."Christelle Calmels, The Paris Institute of Political Studies

• 1. Introduction: Rediscovering Discourse and Identity in French Security and Defense Policy Excursus: General Characteristics of French Foreign Policy Discourse – Agents and Parties 2. Chirac's Failed NATO Reintegration – European Identity Confirmed 3. Sarkozy’s Successful NATO Reintegration and the End of Ambivalence – Identity Change Starting 4. The Normalization of French CSDP Policies during the Libyan War – Identity Reconstructed 5. Conclusions 6. Epilogue: Continuity or Change with Hollande and Macron?

Falk Ostermann is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Giessen, Germany. He specializes in French security and defense policy and studies NATO, European defense, identity, and discourse analysis. He has published, inter alia, in European Security, International Relations, and West European Politics.

"Thanks to this book, the reader undeniably has the keys to analyse the recent declarations of the President of the Republic on this matter. Ostermann’s theoretical approach thus distinguishes itself from other analyses of French foreign policy by carefully detailing the significance of key concepts."Christelle Calmels, The Paris Institute of Political Studies

• 1. Introduction: Rediscovering Discourse and Identity in French Security and Defense Policy Excursus: General Characteristics of French Foreign Policy Discourse – Agents and Parties 2. Chirac's Failed NATO Reintegration – European Identity Confirmed 3. Sarkozy’s Successful NATO Reintegration and the End of Ambivalence – Identity Change Starting 4. The Normalization of French CSDP Policies during the Libyan War – Identity Reconstructed 5. Conclusions 6. Epilogue: Continuity or Change with Hollande and Macron?

Falk Ostermann is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Giessen, Germany. He specializes in French security and defense policy and studies NATO, European defense, identity, and discourse analysis. He has published, inter alia, in European Security, International Relations, and West European Politics.

"Thanks to this book, the reader undeniably has the keys to analyse the recent declarations of the President of the Republic on this matter. Ostermann’s theoretical approach thus distinguishes itself from other analyses of French foreign policy by carefully detailing the significance of key concepts."Christelle Calmels, The Paris Institute of Political Studies

• 1. Introduction: Rediscovering Discourse and Identity in French Security and Defense Policy Excursus: General Characteristics of French Foreign Policy Discourse – Agents and Parties 2. Chirac's Failed NATO Reintegration – European Identity Confirmed 3. Sarkozy’s Successful NATO Reintegration and the End of Ambivalence – Identity Change Starting 4. The Normalization of French CSDP Policies during the Libyan War – Identity Reconstructed 5. Conclusions 6. Epilogue: Continuity or Change with Hollande and Macron?