One reason is its failure to develop a coherent foreign-policy framework.
Now both the Socialists and Mr Sarkozy want a new slimline treaty that would introduce institutional changes to make the enlarged union work better.The trouble is that France has not yet devised a foreign-policy framework that would enable it to achieve these ends.
The Bush administration now confronts an unsettling prospect: that its endeavor to promote democracy actually establishes opposition to American interests more expediently than most, if not all, other foreign-policy frameworks.
National Interests and Foreign Policy: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis and Decision-Making.
In Canberra, the shadow foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, stood her ground in arguing Australia needed to pursue an independent foreign policy within the alliance framework.
The shadow foreign minister said Trump was likely to be unorthodox as president, which means "defining an independent foreign policy within an alliance framework is now a more complex task".
In a column written for Fairfax Media, the opposition spokeswoman on foreign affairs, Penny Wong, has argued Australia needs to define a more independent foreign policy within the established alliance framework, and needs "a better road map in Asia".
"C.I.A. activities were conducted within the framework of U.S. foreign policy at the time," he said, "and covert actions were undertaken at the direction of the White House and interagency policy coordinating committees".
But it is also almost certainly because, for Sanders, a class-based worldview trumps all, and a foreign policy outside of an economic justice framework is just something to which he hasn't given much thought.
