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Title: | Algeria and socialist France |
Author: | Grimaud, Nicole |
Year: | 1986 |
Periodical: | Middle East Journal |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 252-266 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Algeria France |
Subject: | foreign policy |
External link: | http://search.proquest.com/pao/docview/1290776965 |
Abstract: | The election of Francois Mitterrand to the French presidency in 1981 seemed to point to the caning of a golden age in Franco-Algerian relations. Four years later, however, everything had fallen apart. In the years 1984 and 1985 relations worsened progressively, with Algiers manifesting its dissatifaction more and more openly. Two moments of particular tension can be identified: the first one, in the second half of 1984, turned around Mitterrand's visit to Ifrane in Morocco, and the second, from May to August 1985, had as its zenith the charge of War of Liberation excesses against the former colonizer. There seem to be two factors in this change of climate: the end of illusions about socialist partners having coincided with a worsening of internal difficulties in Algerian politics. Notes. |