Political Structure and Fore？gn Policy of the French Fourth Republic: French Policy Towards Israel on the Road to Suez Crisis

This article aims to analyse the effect of the political structure of the FrenchFourth Republic on foreign policy. It makes this analysis over the case of French foreign policy towards Israel on the road to Suez Crisis. The article argues that France played a critical role in this crisis, and in order to explain the policy of Paris, it focuses on the internal struggle that took place between the foreign and defence bureaucracies, which came to the fore thanks to the weak and unstable political structure of the Fourth Republic, under the framework of bureaucratic politics model. As a result of some regional developments, Defence Ministry prevailed, and in the end, France played a critical role in the planning of the joint military intervention against Egypt