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Focuses on the dispute between the U.S. and France over arms trade in 2003. Absence of the U.S. from the 2003 Paris Air Show; Stand of the French government on the U.S-led war in Iraq; Impact of the French-American competition on transatlantic mergers and acquisitions.

By integrating French archives and untapped US intelligence records, this article uncovers a debate within US government circles about the accuracy of the entrenched image of France at the onset of the Cold War as decadent and teetering toward revolution. In exchanges with the White House, State Department and military, right-leaning French sources bolstered this view. French contacts in the Resistance meanwhile shaped Office of Strategic Services analysis that France was a strong, worthy ally. France became a contested idea with warring factions in both capitals seeking to influence US policy - with repercussions for Franco-American relations for decades to come. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the history surrounding the 1858 petition from the governors and chiefs of Raiatea, French Polynesia and Tahaa, French Polynesia requesting to be an American protectorate. An overview of the French and British involvement in the Society Islands, including Tahiti becoming a French protectorate in 1842 and Great Britain and France's recognition of the autonomy of the Leeward Islands, West Indies, is provided. The relationship between the political disputes among native rulers in the Society Islands and the foreign intervention of the U.S., Great Britain and France is discussed.

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.

Understanding the true nature of the relations between France and the United States is central to an understanding of the diplomatic crisis that broke out between them in 2003 over the War in Iraq. An analysis of the political cultures of France and the US offers considerable explanatory power to this dramatic diplomatic dispute. The inordinately emotional aspects of the Franco-US arguments of 2003 mask the fact that the two countries understand each other little. In the French case, its self-view and related diplomatic comportment in the twentieth century was informed by its relationship to Germany; and from it a range of cultural characteristics emerged, among them: vulnerability, self-regard, a romanticized view of itself, and the personalization of national identity. At the moment France’s response to its cultural heritage was beginning to shift to a different (post-Gaullist) paradigm, the dispute with the US erupted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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.

Discusses the tension between the U.S. and France during the Fourth Republic from 1946 to 1958. Notion of the Right as a valid political concept; Factors that prevented several political groups from uniting into a broad-based political movement; Reluctance of France to forfeit national sovereignty to collective security.

Focuses on the tension between France and the United States. History of Franco-American relations; Argument over the Bill Clinton administration's campaign to replace Boutros Boutros-Ghali as United Nations Secretary General; Madeleine Albright's visit of Paris in February 1997; Disagreement over the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.