LE FRANÇAIS DANS LA GESTION DES CRISES DANS LE MONDE

Abstract

Abstract
French gained the status as the language of diplomacy in 18th century Europe. France, the parent country of French language, used its géopolitique alternative privilégiée, which owes its origin to Vidal de la Blache‘s initial response to Friedrich Ratzel‘s pioneering definition of geopolitics. This became an important underlying theme of the new geopolitics that emerged in the 1970s. The concept has eminently guided Paris‘s use of courteous standards of competence by its French language agents vested with common stakes of patrimonial sovereignty, and utilising symbolic capacities to secure French language‘s global recognition as both a working language and an official language of the United Nations, the European Union, UNESCO, NATO, the International Olympic Committee, the International Red Cross, and the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The OIF, specifically established to promote the use of French language in international relations, indicates that French today, is spoken by 321 million people – representing 6 to 7% of the world population – accounting for approximately 7% of global GDP and 12% of world exports. This paper used the liberalist theory of international cooperation; theory of convergence by Carl Kerr, and the Hegemonic Stability Theory to elucidate the extent French, utilising its privileged position as the second globally spoken language in all the continents after English, has contributed to the maintenance of international peace and security. The paper concluded on the strength that the social dispositions of French in world geopolitics and global crisis management are durable and robust.