Contenu du sommaire : L'urbanisation du monde

The crisis in the Central African Republic is far from over. The state is still unable to control and decrease the violent actions of armed groups that operate on its territory, which could fracture the country and bring about destabilisation in the entire sub-region. The failure of the international community to play effectively its stabilisation role has created an interventional vacuum, rapidly filled by Russia and the major bilateral initiative it has recently launched. However, this article argues that France has an important role to play in the reconstruction of the country, and that it should encourage its European partners to join its reconstruction strategy. The latter should be based on three core principles : the security apparatus reconstruction, targeted investments and a regional diplomatic approach.

What role should Francophonie play in the current crisis of multilateralism ? How should it redefine itself in this context ? After identifying the challenges it faces, this article argues that Francophonie's characteristics may offer it an opportunity to redefine multilateralism in the context of complex international governance. Yet, in order to achieve such a redefinition, several conditions need to be fulfilled, including rejecting a “negative Francophonie” approach that would only see it as an orchestrator, encouraging and promoting both bottom-up and horizontal governance, enhancing its capacity to generate and disseminate new ideas, experimenting new forms of multilateral governance, and building an institutional niche.