The current conflict between French President Jacques Chirac and the Bush administration over war plans for Iraq has enabled the French government to posture temporarily on the world stage as a force ...
On May 15th, the French government declared a state of emergency in the country’s semi-autonomous overseas territory of New Caledonia, which lies 1400 kilometers east of Australia (17,000 kilometers ...
The series of coups in Africa in nations of the former French colonial empire is unfolding amid a growing radicalization among workers and youth on the continent. After a decade of relentless NATO-led ...
The French have a history of imperial grandeur that, although it was occasionally punctured by the English and the Germans, made them feel great, particularly when ruling non-Europeans in IndoChina, ...
Philippe Faucon Directors’ Fortnight entry Les Harkis is another movie about French imperialism. This time it’s set in Algeria during the Algerian War of Independence from 1954 to 1962 between France ...
Whether it is in the context of the conflicts in east Ukraine or in the Central African Republic (CAR), observers are quick to denounce imperialistic behaviors on both sides. For instance, European ...
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European imperial powers preferred to control certain colonial territories by indirect means: they sought to co-opt local economic and cultural elites ...
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