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Compares the British and French nuclear power programs, public responses to the programs, and the nature of their peace movements.

This book critically examines peacebuilding, humanitarian intervention and peace operation practices and experiences in francophone spaces.Francophone Africa as a specific space is relatively little studied in the peace and security literature, despite the fact that almost half of all peacekeepers are deployed or were deployed in this part of Africa during the last decade. It is an arena for intervention that deserves more serious attention, if only because it provides fertile ground for exploring the key questions raised in the peacekeeping and peacebuilding literature. For instance, in 2002

"This book critically examines peacebuilding, humanitarian intervention and peace operation practices and experiences in francophone spaces. Francophone Africa as a specific space is relatively little studied in the peace and security literature, despite the fact that almost half of all peacekeepers are deployed or were deployed in this part of Africa during the last decade. It is an arena for intervention that deserves more serious attention, if only because it provides fertile ground for exploring the key questions raised in the peacekeeping and peacebuilding literature. For instance, in 2002 a French operation (Licorne) was launched and in 2003 a UN force was deployed in Côte d'Ivoire alongside the French force there. Filling a gap in the current literature, Peace Operations in the Francophone World critically examines peacekeeping and peacebuilding practices in the francophone world, including but not limited to conflict prevention and resolution, security sector reform (SSR), francophone politics, and North--South relations. The book explores whether peace and security operations in francophone spaces have exceptional characteristics when compared with those carried out in other parts of the world and assesses whether an analysis of these operations in the francophone world can make a specific and original contribution to wider international debates about peacekeeping and peacebuilding. This book will be of much interest to students of peacekeeping, peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, African politics, security studies, and IR in general"--

From Rivalry to Partnership is the first to study a potentially valuable way forward in tackling the challenges of Africa, namely bilateral partnerships. Written in a clear and accessible style, 'From Rivalry to Partnership' offers a much needed fresh insight on whether and how bilateral partnerships make a real difference to people's lives on the African continent.

The politics of failure: historicising Popular Front colonial policy in French West Africa / Gary Wilder -- Reforming reformatory technologies: the example of New Caledonia / Don LaCoss -- The Africanist International and the Popular Front / John Hargreaves -- The Popular Front and internationalism: the Tunisian case in comparative perspective / Alejandro Col(c)Łs -- Protectorate, association, reformism: the roots of the Popular Front's republican policy in Indochina / Gilles de Gant(c)·s -- Reformism and the French "official mind": the 1944 Brazzaville Conference and the legacy of the Popular Front / Martin Shipway -- The Popular Front and the colonial question. French West Africa: an example of reformist colonialism / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch -- Women, children and the Popular Front's mission of inquiry in French West Africa / Ghislaine Lydon -- Did the Popular Front have any significant impact in Guin(c)♭e? / Michel Brot -- Socialism in the colonies: Cameroun under the Popular Front / Jean Koufan -- The Popular Front and the Blum-Viollette Plan, 1936-37 / France Tostain -- The Popular Front's colonial policies in Indochina: reassessing the Popular Front's "colonisation altruiste" / Panivong Norindr

Against the broad historical background of economic globalisation and dwindling nation-state resources, this book examines the impact of the end of the Cold War and of the geo-political transformation of Europe on a wide range of issues, from changing perceptions of France's future world role to the internal ramifications of a new ideological and strategic environment. Multi disciplinary in focus, it draws on the expertise of historians, political scientists, sociologists and economists working in the field of French studies

The introduction to this special issue on Progress: its visionaries and its malcontents sketches the background to contemporary debates about the concept of progress. It focuses particularly on the notion of political progress, or, in other words, a belief in the possibility of deliberate, concerted, collective action to change the world for the better. It traces how the notion of progress received a significant boost at the time of the European Enlightenment and then goes on to discuss some of the key fault-lines in this thinking, most notably as it relates to imperialism and colonialism. In the face of a number of other recent critiques of progress, the importance of certain key historical periods, when progress was viewed in a more positive light and deemed to be a real, achievable goal, provides the rationale for the selection of texts chosen for this issue.

This book critically examines peacebuilding, humanitarian intervention and peace operation practices and experiences in francophone spaces. Francophone Africa as a specific space is relatively little studied in the peace and security literature, despite the fact that almost half of all peacekeepers are deployed or were deployed in this part of Africa during the last decade. It is an arena for intervention that deserves more serious attention, if only because it provides fertile ground for exploring the key questions raised in the peacekeeping and peacebuilding literature. For instance, in 2002 a French operation (Licorne) was launched and in 2003 a UN force was deployed in Cote d'Ivoire alongside the French force there. Filling a gap in the current literature, Peace Operations in the Francophone World critically examines peacekeeping and peacebuilding practices in the francophone world, including but not limited to conflict prevention and resolution, security sector reform (SSR), francophone politics, and North-South relations. The book explores whether peace and security operations in francophone spaces have exceptional characteristics when compared with those carried out in other parts of the world and assesses whether an analysis of these operations in the francophone world can make a specific and original contribution to wider international debates about peacekeeping and peacebuilding. This book will be of much interest to students of peacekeeping, peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, African politics, security studies, and IR in general.