This multidisciplinary edited volume examines wide-ranging exchanges between France and its Mediterranean neighbours and their impact. It questions the changing notion of a Mediterranean space and its representation, centrality and relevance in terms of France s international relations under Sarkozy s presidency, from the launch of the Union for the Mediterranean and its complex articulations with the European Union s own agenda in the region, to the tortuous relations with Libya, made even more complicated by the 2011 Arab Spring . Beyond the realm of state relations and formal policy...

Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century. Our fighting sisters is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence. Based on new oral history interviews with women who participated in the war in a wide range of roles, from members of the Algiers urban bomb network to women who supported rural guerrillas, this book explores how female veterans viewed the post-independence state and its multiple discourses on 'the Algerian woman' in the...