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AbstractAs a theoretician, Aron was, like Clausewitz, keen to understand the nature of war. He was also an attentive witness to the ways in which war changed. While his thought is not as systematic as the Prussian thinker's, it nevertheless sheds light on the contemporary strategic context in three ways. First, his approach to international relations leads to the definition of the current system as multipolar and heterogeneous. Second, his typology of war reveals that interstate war has, since 1945, all but been replaced by nuclear deterrence and guerilla warfare. Finally, his analysis of the relationship between democracy and war brings to light a tension between the principles of liberty that define western democracy domestically and the hegemonic character of their military interventions on the international scene.
Keywords: Aron, guerre, stratégie, guérilla, système international, Aron, war, strategy, guerrilla, international system, Aron, guerra, estrategia, guerrilla, sistema internacional
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French strategic priorities have been marked since the Second World War by the need to maintain continuity in national identity while adapting to changing world conditions. This process has been successful because the French Government was able to achieve a « minimal » political consensus and prevent fondamental contradiction in goals from developing. It is now extending its priorities so as to achieve a new harmonization between national defence and the development of a European defence, while maintaining a role in the structuration of world security. However, the cost of defence is gradually demonstrating that a further adaptation is required, through the consolidation of European defence. Yet, while accepting some supranational transfers of competence, this adaptation is now raising the question of the capacity for the « minimal » consensus to be maintained while balancing national sovereignty against efficiency.
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