Important French foreign policy dyads, such as relations between France and the United Kingdom and France and the United States, have consistently been subject to empirical, historical and policy analysis. However, France's relationship with the broader Anglosphere is rarely considered or conceptualized. This article theorizes France's relationship with the Anglosphere at a pivotal historical juncture. The 2021 announcement of AUKUS, a security partnership between Australia, the UK and the US, spectacularly excluded France despite a shared proclivity to use military force in defence of liberal international order. To analyse this vital contemporary case, we undertake a comparative, computer-aided discourse analysis of 540 political and media texts, triangulated with thematic analysis of 37 elite interviews. First, contributing to constructivist and ontological security theory, we develop a novel theorization of alliance politics, generally, through the concept of ‘brOthers in arms’, whereby a double identity inscription binds allies antagonistically together. Second, contributing to critical studies of foreign policy and research on national identity, we locate France–Anglosphere relations, specifically, towards the thick end of an alliance identity spectrum, held together in mutual alterity by complementary, competing and co-constitutive exceptionalisms. Third, contributing to studies of foreign policy and alliance politics, our analysis situates AUKUS within the fractious longue durée of France–Anglosphere relations.

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“战火中的兄弟”：法国、英语圈和 AUKUS

法国重要的外交政策双人关系，例如法国与英国、法国与美国之间的关系，一直受到实证、历史和政策分析的影响。然而，法国与更广泛的英语圈的关系却很少被考虑或概念化。本文对法国在关键历史时刻与英语圈的关系进行了理论分析。澳大利亚、英国和美国之间的安全伙伴关系 AUKUS 于 2021 年宣布，尽管法国都倾向于使用军事力量捍卫自由国际秩序，但引人注目的是，法国被排除在外。为了分析这个重要的当代案例，我们对 540 篇政治和媒体文本进行了计算机辅助的比较性话语分析，并对 37 次精英访谈进行了主题分析。首先，为建构主义和本体论安全理论做出贡献，我们一般通过“战友”的概念，发展出一种新颖的联盟政治理论，即双重身份铭文将盟友敌对地结合在一起。其次，为了对外交政策和国家认同的批判性研究做出贡献，我们将法国与英国圈的关系定位在联盟认同谱的最厚端，通过互补、竞争和共同构成的例外论以相互差异的方式结合在一起。第三，为了对外交政策和联盟政治的研究做出贡献，我们的分析将 AUKUS 置于法国与英国圈关系的长期不稳定时期。