To rescue hegemony: the French view of a changing world order

At the end of the past August the president Emmanuel Macron made the annual address to the French ambassadors, thereby by tradition having opened a new political season for diplomacy of the Fifth republic. In the substantial plan it as a whole confirmed commitment to the same course which the owner of the Élysée Palace conducted in recent years, including prime emphasis on strengthening of a strategic autonomy of EU, the increased initiative on some other the regional directions. However this time performance contained also other remarkable keynote — recognition of demolition of a former world order and is clear...