France and the Mediterranean

Emmanuel Godin is Principal Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Portsmouth. Natalya Vince is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Portsmouth.

Contents: Emmanuel Godin/Natalya Vince: Introduction: France and the Mediterranean in 2011 - Jean-Yves Moisseron/Manar Ezzat Bayoumi: The Mediterranean: A Contested Concept - Jean-Robert Henry: France's Mediterranean Policy: Between National Ambitions and European Uncertainties - Ivano Bruno: French Foreign Policy in the Mediterranean: Europeanization between Collective and National Approaches - David Styan: The Revival of Franco-Libyan Relations - Gérald Arboit: France and Cultural Diplomacy in the Mediterranean - Patricia Caillé: On the Confusion between Films about Women and Films by Women in the Construction of a Regional Cinema: The Maghreb vs. the Mediterranean - Mary Ben Bonham: Hybrid Cultural Significance for the Bibliothèque Municipale à Vocation Régionale de Marseille - Bruno Levasseur: French Artistes Engagés Transcending the Politics of 'Race' and 'Ethnicity' in the Republic (1980s-2000s) - Ed Naylor: 'A system that resembles both colonialism and the invasion of France': Gaston Defferre and the Politics of Immigration in 1973 - Andrea Brazzoduro: Postcolonial Memories of the Algerian War of Independence, 1955-2010: French Veterans and Contemporary France - Natalya Vince: Questioning the Colonial Fracture: The Algerian War as a 'Useful Past' in Contemporary France and Algeria.