France, NATO and European Security: Status Quo Unsustainable, New Balance Unattainable? , by Jolyon HOWORTH Between 1947 and 1997, that is fifty years, France's search for a new balance between Europe and the United States has been more or less in vain. It was necessary to wait for a warming of relations between Paris and London, at the same time as the war in Bosnia, and the Saint-Malo declaration, which seemed to announce a revolution in transatlantic relations, for this French ambition to come about. But if Paris and London were agreed on the prin-ciple of balance, there were not at all in accord over its content or putting in place. And the advent of the Bush administration and September 11 have overturned the structures and concepts of...