Fathi, Romain2024-11-182024-11-182201-5639https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733724791Australia’s unilateral cancellation of its contract to purchase French submarines and sign up for the AUKUS security pact constitutes a slap in the face for French diplomacy – variously described as a “stab in the back” and a “betrayal” by French diplomats. Though Paris may be shocked by this turn of events, it was somewhat foreseeable, for several historical, cultural and diplomatic reasons.application/pdfen-AU© 2021 The Author(s)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/2021-09-242024-02-18Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)