FRANCE AND ALGERIA TO POST-COLONIAL TIME: BETWEEN DECOLONIZATION

Introduction

With a background of Cold War on the one hand, and looking the other hand, a new
European horizon including the European Community and Defense2
Economic European Community3 first sketch features,
France, facing the Algerian insurrection, succumbs to the temptations of
nationalism and a form of imperialism inspired by the romanticism of the nineteenth century. So should you probably hear the inclusion of the fifth
Republic in a decolonization process backed by a broad recognition
the international legal principle of colonized peoples to self-determination
- Also supported by the United States and the former Soviet Union
Soviet - as a slope of the strategic refocusing around France
new targets for power which can hold the pact francoallemand
1963 and the policy of nuclear deterrence as the bases
the most significant.