...T. G. Otte T. G. Otte is a lecturer in diplomatic history at the University of East Anglia. Isom-Verhaaren Christine : Allies with the Infidel: The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century . London : I. B. Tauris and Co. , 2011 . 274 pages. ISBN 978-1-848...

...Stelios Stavridis The theory and practice of diplomacy has evolved greatly over the past few decades. Parliamentary diplomacy has become common practice, although there is an academic gap in its study, especially in the case of France. This essay aims to filling that gap: it shows how French...

...Dominique Maillard Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2005 Dominique Maillard is vice dean in charge of international relations and currently teaches at the University of Paris XII-Val de Marne. The Muslims in France and the French Model of Integration...

...Norman Bowen Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2005 Norman Bowen is associate professor of political science at the California State University-Hayward and director of the university's International Studies Program. Multilateralism, Multipolarity, and Regionalism: The French...

...Norman Bowen Nicholas Sarkozy.s campaign documents and speeches reveal more continuity than rupture with past French foreign policy. The US will welcome his support for missile defense and possible unilateral action outside of the UN. However, like previous French presidents, Sarkozy extolled...

... begins with the negotiations in 1915 between Sir Mark Sykes, a British MP and putative Middle East expert, and François Georges-­Picot, a French diplomat, ardent imperial- ist, and Anglophobe. Between them, the two men carved up the Middle East, mostly without much input from their political masters...

... Reviews  121 begins with the negotiations in 1915 between Sir Mark Sykes, a British MP and putative Middle East expert, and François Georges-­Picot, a French diplomat, ardent imperial- ist, and Anglophobe. Between them, the two men carved up the Middle East, mostly without much input from...

... begins with the negotiations in 1915 between Sir Mark Sykes, a British MP and putative Middle East expert, and François Georges-­Picot, a French diplomat, ardent imperial- ist, and Anglophobe. Between them, the two men carved up the Middle East, mostly without much input from their political masters...

... in Africa. Among many examples of such treaties are the convention between France and Portugal in 1886, the Anglo-French Agree- ment of 1889, the Anglo-German Agreement of 1890, the Anglo-Portuguese Agreement of 1890, and the Franco-Spanish Convention of 1900. In some places, verbal agreements alone...

..., 1989), 50 – 2. 11. Constantine A. Pagedas, Anglo-­American Strategic Relations and the French Problem, 1960 – 1963 (Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2013), 183 – 97. 12. Costigliola, 49 – 50; Alan Dobson, Anglo-­American Relations in the Twentieth Century (Oxford, UK: Routledge, 1995), 126 – 7; Pagedas...

... is a mirror of Europe’s own conflicted posture—a desire for greater authority without a simultaneous willingness to take on greater responsibilities. The French challenge for the political, military, and economic indepen- dence of Europe has more or less...

... the Mediterranean Sea controlled perhaps one of the most commercially important and militarily strate- gic waterways on earth. The Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Ottoman Turks, French, British, Russians, Germans, and even Americans, as well as the Italian mari- time states, among others, all recognized...

... the Mediterranean Sea controlled perhaps one of the most commercially important and militarily strate- gic waterways on earth. The Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Ottoman Turks, French, British, Russians, Germans, and even Americans, as well as the Italian mari- time states, among others, all recognized...

... the Mediterranean Sea controlled perhaps one of the most commercially important and militarily strate- gic waterways on earth. The Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Ottoman Turks, French, British, Russians, Germans, and even Americans, as well as the Italian mari- time states, among others, all recognized...

..., a seemingly multicultural country in which exclusions may not be very obvious but are nevertheless deeply entrenched and long standing. In the third part light is cast on the living conditions of the most disadvantaged young Muslims in France against the backdrop of French assimilation policies...

... , 2009 . 574 pages . ISBN 1-932-45519-1 . $44.95 . Copyright 2012 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2012 Reviews Christine Isom-­Verhaaren: Allies with the Infidel: The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century. London: I. B. Tauris and Co., 2011...

... by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2012 Reviews Christine Isom-­Verhaaren: Allies with the Infidel: The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century. London: I. B. Tauris and Co., 2011. 274 pages. ISBN 978-­1-­848-85728-­5. $75.96. Reviewed by T. G. Otte. Faced...

... Quarterly: Fall 2007 The third factor was the French government’s decision in 1923 to estab- lish a cultural section in its foreign office, to further cultural relations with other countries. French cultural personalities were sent abroad, where they operated mostly through the local Alliance...

... into French society and who instead live in urban slums, suffering from inequality, poverty, and unemploy- ment. They straddle two worlds but belong to neither. Mireille Rosello is not a stranger to this topic; she has several publications on immi- grants and ethnicity in French culture. France...

.... $95.71. Reviewed by Mohamed A. El-Khawas. This publication is timely in view of recent violence among North African minorities in Paris and its spread to other cities across France. The civil strife is caused by alien- ation and frustration among Muslims who have not been integrated into French...