La responsabilite du FMI et de la Banque mondiale dans le conflit en Cote d'Ivoire

In: Études internationales: revue trimestrielle, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 219-228

Abstract

A long time presented as a haven of peace in a continent characterized by chronic instability, Cote d'Ivoire goes through an unrest period punctuated with the coup d'Etat of December 1999, then with new attempt in September 2002 which, de facto, led to country partition & to a lasting "neither war nor peace" situation. Our assumption is that rise of instability is, to some extent, due to international financial institutions intervention, which, through successive adjustment programs, tried to impose the neoliberal model, upsetting former balances, without producing new compromises likely to ensure social & political stability. In this sense, the Ivorian conflict appears, at least partially, as the result of failures in the Washington (post) consensus implementation. Adapted from the source document.