France and the New Imperialism

Security Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bibliographic Data

ID19912922
AuthorsB Charbonneau (0000-0003-0373-7174, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-04-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueFrance and the New Imperialism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315582948
OpenAlexW4255951631
Open LibraryOL36733316M
ISBN9781315582948
LanguageEN
Citations received11

The role of French security policy and cooperation in Africa has long been recognized as a critically important factor in African politics and international relations. The newest form of security cooperation, a trend which merges security and development and which is actively promoted by other major Western powers, adds to our understanding of this broader trend in African relations with the industrialized North. This book investigates whether French involvement in Africa is really in the interest of Africans, or whether French intervention continues to deny African political freedom and to sustain their current social, economic and political conditions. It illustrates how policies portrayed as promoting stability and development can in fact be factors of instability and reproductive mechanisms of systems of dependency, domination and subordination. Providing complex ideas in a clear and pointed manner, France and the New Imperialism is a sophisticated understanding of critical security studies

Political science · Australian History and Society · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · History · Political Economy and Marxism · Africa · Colonies · Diplomatic relations · foreign relations · France · Military · Military Science · National security · Other · Sub-Saharan Africa · Technology & Engineering

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