France and Iraq - Oil, Arms and French Policy Making in the Middle East

Informationen zum Autor David Styan completed his Masters at the University of Bordeaux and his PhD at the London School of Economics. He currently teaches in the School of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London Klappentext France's opposition to the Iraq war in 2003 was greeted with surprise and outrage by Anglo-American politicans. But as David Styan argues in his penetrating new book! Chirac's stance was consistent with a decades-long reorientation of French foreign policy. Styan dissects the processes by which a country! notorious for its suppression of Algerian independence! came to cast itself as the anti-imperialist champion of the Arab world. Vorwort Argues that France's opposition to the Iraq war in 2003 was consistent with a decades-long reorientation of French foreign policy. This book dissects the processes by which a country notorious for its suppression of Algerian independence came to cast itself as the anti-imperialist champion of the Arab world. Zusammenfassung Argues that France's opposition to the Iraq war in 2003 was consistent with a decades-long reorientation of French foreign policy. This book dissects the processes by which a country notorious for its suppression of Algerian independence came to cast itself as the anti-imperialist champion of the Arab world.

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• Authors: David Styan
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2006
• EAN: 9781845110451
• ISBN: 978-1-84511-045-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Library of International Relations; Library of International Relat; Library of International Relat; Library of International Relations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education