TY  - BOOK
AU  - Papastamkou,Sofia
TI  - From the Lebanese Crisis to De Gaulle's Memorandum of September 17, 1958: French Foreign Policy between Two Republics and a War
PY  - 2010///.
							
N1  - 31
N2  - After 1956, the Suez crisis and the Algerian war imposed to France an attitude of complete discretion in the Middle East. The Lebanese crisis of 1958 was the first occasion that allowed France to take part in the diplomatic activity regarding this event thanks to the country’s important cultural interests in Lebanon and its ties with the Maronite community. The attitude of France was defined by the newly-formed government of Charles de Gaulle, who returned to power in the aftermath of the May 1958 Crisis – and whose main concern was to avoid civil war and prepare constitutional change that would lead to the institution of the Fifth French Republic. The French considerations regarding the Lebanese crisis reveal the main issues that were at stake in France’s policy regarding the Arab world and the country’s relations with Americans and the British at a moment that France was undergoing a major internal crisis. During this short period of transition, the French diplomacy maintained the main orientations of the Fourth Republic ; at the same time, those of the Fifth Republic were also clearly announced. Under de Gaulle, the French diplomacy regained the conduct of the country’s foreign affairs of which it had been deprived by the ultras of French Algeria. In the summer of 1958, it seemed entirely mobilized in the search of a solution that would preserve the French general interests in North Africa as well as the country itself from civil war
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-materiaux-pour-l-histoire-de-notre-temps-2010-3-page-76?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -