In the 1960s, the growing strategic importance of ocean exploration led the French government to develop greater capacity in marine scientific research, aiming to promote cooperative and diplomatic relations with the leading states in ocean exploration. Devised during Charles de Gaulle's government (1958–1969), the restructuring of French oceanography culminated, in 1967, in the establishment of the state‐led Centre National pour l'Exploitation des Océans (CNEXO). Beyond being intended to control the orientation of marine research at a national level, the CNEXO's mission was to use scientific diplomacy to balance a desire for enhancing international cooperative relations in oceanography with French ambitions to equal the USA's leading capacity to explore the oceans. Its director, the naval officer Yves la Prairie, played a crucial role in articulating scientific, national, and diplomatic interests for France in the oceans.

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为了所有人的利益：冷战中的海洋学和法美科学外交，1958-1970**

在 1960 年代，海洋探索的战略重要性日益提高，促使法国政府发展更大的海洋科学研究能力，旨在促进与海洋探索领先国家的合作和外交关系。在戴高乐政府 (1958-1969) 期间，法国海洋学的重组在 1967 年以国家主导的国家海洋开发中心 (CNEXO) 的建立达到顶峰。除了旨在在国家层面控制海洋研究的方向之外，CNEXO 的使命是利用科学外交来平衡加强海洋学国际合作关系的愿望与法国的雄心壮志，以与美国在探索海洋方面的领先能力相提并论。它的主管，海军军官伊夫·拉普雷里，