Abstract

The reasons that lead the former belligerents to cooperate and achieve reconciliation remain a subject of a controversial debate. Both practitioners and theorists are interested in the question.
The small number of studies conducted on the French-Algerian relations, although they highlighted the past as one of the important factors in the evolution of these relations since independence, they do not however identify its role in comparison with other factors, because they wanted to reach another objectives. The present book is therefore a constructivist study of the role of the past in the process of cooperation and reconciliation in comparison with other factors to demonstrate its right value. Past is generally presented as the memory of victimhood (wrongs) or memory of the winner (glories) or both. In constructivist language, it represents a denial or recognition.
The constructivism is a global approach that does not exclude the influence of objective and personal factors in the process of cooperation and reconciliation, but it tends to associate those factors to self-representation and identification of others. These last two elements are important in defining the relationship to others and in the expression of hostile or cooperatives relationships. Recognition is a means by which conflicting relations may turn into ones more cooperatives.
Our study of French-Algerian foreign relations shows how Algeria's previous interaction with France has generated a quest for recognition of past wrongs. The origins of the cooperative or conflictual relations between France and Algeria are often the result of this game of recognition, and denial of recognition of what this memory has been and the temptation of Algeria to search in vain "Peer-to-peer" relationships with France
This study addresses a various aspects of French-Algerian relationships and for which a large number of sources have been used.

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Item Type:	Thesis
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ePrint ID:	685
Date Deposited:	2017-03-06
Further Information:	Google Scholar
URI:	https://www.univ-soukahras.dz/en/publication/article/685

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