Search

The article discusses the implications of the ideological shift prompted by the Fifth French Republic on the country's national identity. It cites studies that examined the genesis of the Fifth Republic that highlighted the need to clearly define nationality and citizenship. Moreover, it discusses the country's issues on national identity by citing its post-independence relations with sub-Saharan African states and the prevailing attitudes of the French North African minority population.

The article discusses the political and social development in the Fifth French Republic during the regime of Charles de Gaulle. It explores de Gaulle's views that led him to oppose the European Defense Community (EDC), particularly his views regarding France's independence from external control. Moreover, it examines the legacy left by de Gaulle in European policy, which according to the author is simply a set of behaviors and belief designed to create the illusion of control.

The article focuses on the relationship of France and Rome. It notes that Rome has improved its relationship with France in order to regain the Latin origin for redefinition of their culture. It cites that Latinity is one of the reason why Romanians had shifted to French culture. It discusses how the relationship directly affected the cultural and national identity of Romanians. It cites that Romanians have increased their effort to learn more about France through traveling and publications.

The article discusses French-American relations in context of the war of the U.S. against Iraq. Americans living in Paris claimed that last spring's demonstrations were directed at the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush, not at the American people. French supporters of U.S. foreign policy argued that France, from its government to its people, was suffering once again from an acute case of irrational, hypocritical and highly predictable anti-Americanism. What has been returning in France, for the past ten or fifteen years by most accounts, is religion.

The article discusses the portrayal of Franco-American relations in Diane Johnson's novel "L'Affaire." The novel, set in France concludes with the imminent departure of its heroine, Amy Hawkins. Human and geological shifts combine in the novel to produce a series of cataclysms, at once natural and cultural, comic and tragic, and literal as well as figurative. America's apparent eagerness to make Francophobia the same essential trait of American national identity that it has always been for the British paradoxically marks the U.S. as every bit as European as France.

Focuses on the rift in U.S.-French relations following the 2003 U.S.-led war on Iraq. Fox News television network's efforts to incite Anglo-American Francophobia by pointing out French ingratitude of American sacrifices during World War II; Comparison between French third-worldism and its Anglo-American version; French media intellectuals' adoption of slogans identical to those of the capitalist United States.

Introduces a series of articles on contemporary French and Francophone studies. Historical frames which can help in understanding the current rift in U.S.-French relations; French critique of American imperialism; Fiction writers' role in creating an understanding of cultural and political relations.