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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.

This article looks at an episode which though it happened in Tunisia had a direct link to the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62), and thus propelled the war to an international conflict that pitted the Western powers, namely; France, Britain and America against each other. By the time the incident occurred the Algerian War had been going on for just over three years with the French seemingly gaining the upper hand. This article endeavours to show how this incident complicated the Algerian conflict and how the episode was viewed internationally, especially from the British Government and media perspectives both had keen interest on the Algerian conflict as a result of their own empire in other parts of Africa. The article is based largely on archival research at the Public Record Office at Kew, (England) and Newspaper archives at Colindale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jean-Paul Sartre has been called 'the most prominent anti-American' in France, and his critiques of US society and foreign policy have been attributed to his ingrained anti-Americanism. This article questions the utility of this concept in understanding Sartre's political engagements, for he does not fit into standard definitions of anti-Americanism that emphasize special hostility and general resentment toward the United States. Instead, Sartre's writings about the United States reveal an enthusiastic embrace of contemporary American culture, while his sharpest critiques focused on two issues that were lifelong concerns of his, regardless of national context: racial discrimination and the arbitrary exercise of power. Despite his period of fellow traveling that made him sympathetic to the Soviet Union in the early 1950s, Sartre's political biography shows that he was much more interested in the deficiencies of French society and foreign policy than he was in America's failings. The article concludes that Sartre can be better understood as a member of a multiracial, transatlantic community of engaged intellectuals who struggled, and sometimes failed, to find an activist Marxism that was compatible with individual integrity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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.

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.

The article offers information on Franco-German defense cooperation. It is posed that the recent developments in the arms-control talks between the United States and the Soviet Union have focused on the importance of enhancing West European security cooperation and decreasing dependence on the United States. Moreover, in 1982, these governments established a Franco-German Commission on Security and Defense. Relative to this, France has improved its participation in the forward defense of West Germany. Lastly, the late 1950s to the late 1960s saw more fruitful Franco-German cooperation in armament production.

The article reports on issues and topics related astronautics research and development in the U.S. Samos II, a reconnaissance satellite, was successfully fired into orbit by the Air Force on January 31, 1961. The Radio Corp. of America urged the Federal Communications Commission not to give any one company a preferred position in the field of communications satellites. Discussions between officials from the United States and France regarding a plan to launch French satellites with American rockets have started during later part of March 1961.

The article offers information on French security policy. It is posed that by acknowledging France's Gaullist foundation, French security policy has been dynamic in the past years, as the French have adjusted to changes in East-West, European, and transatlantic relations. Moreover, the increasing strikingness of the conventional defense in Europe emphasizes the broader consideration of French security policy. Lastly, questions were posed regarding the future of U. S.-French security cooperation, and the potential of Franco-German cooperation.