De Gaulle, the 'Anglo-Saxons,' and the Algerian War

In: The journal of strategic studies, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 118-137

Abstract

This essay rejects the orthodoxy of French diplomatic historiography, which states de Gaulle was the founder of a new French independence & effected a revolution in French diplomacy, after freeing himself from the Algerian yoke in 1962. Instead it argues that de Gaulle sought from 1958 to make Algeria a central plank of his diplomatic strategy. That strategy sought to transform the relationship with Algeria in order for it to become key to a neo-colonial French community, the basis for French leadership in Europe & the foundation of a new relationship of equality with GB & the US. However, largely as a result of de Gaulle's own making, this policy failed to materialize. Adapted from the source document.