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Ce mémoire traite de la politique étrangère de la France à l'égard de la « Serbie » et les différentes entités politiques à l'intérieur desquelles elle s'est trouvée intégrée entre 1878 et 1995. Au cours de cette période, l'objectif premier de la France est de préserver la défense de ses intérêts dans les Balkans et de maintenir un certain équilibre entre les différents pays européens lui permettant de jouer un rôle dans les affaires européennes et internationales. La politique étrangère de la France à l'égard de la Serbie est guidée par l'observation de ces prémisses et l'action politique du Président de la République François Mitterrand (1981-1995), dans la région du Sud-Est de l'Europe, n'y échappe pas. Elle repose sur la volonté de contrer l'influence allemande, puis américaine au lendemain de la chute de l'ordre de Yalta. Cette attitude de la France s'inscrit en continuité avec celle préconisée par les responsables politiques français du XIXe siècle et est conforme à la tradition développée entre les deux nations au fil des échanges. / Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2014

"Entre 1945 et 1954, la France a entretenu des relations paradoxales avec l'Allemagne; elles étaient à la fois des ennemis héréditaires, du fait des trois conflits en moins d'un siècle, et dès 1950 elles se trouvaient à partager un destin commun en Europe, par l'intégration de la République fédérale dans les organisations supranationales européennes. Malgré tout, les membres du Ministère des Affaires étrangères ont perçu l'Allemagne de l'Ouest comme étant encore problématique pour la sécurité française et européenne, en raison de la puissance qu'elle recelait. A travers l'analyse des documents diplomatiques, il est possible de constater que le concept de la menace allemande a été axé sur la crainte de la résurgence d'une Allemagne militariste et belliqueuse. Elle a également évolué à travers des circonstances internationales difficiles issues de la Guerre froide. D'ailleurs, ce danger européen est formé de trois dimensions : la menace matérielle, politico-idéologique et démographique."

This thesis is a case study of a cultural institution located in Paris, France, namely the Arab World Institute. It strives to identify the various political and ideological discourses that manifest themselves throughout the Institute's history. The Institute's mission is to bridge the two cultures, Arab and European. It is a particularly interesting case study because of its problematic status which lies somewhere between the imperatives of local policies and those inherent to the international arena. / The first chapter is a presentation of the institute, its history and its mission. It also dwells upon the local French political scene and the relations between France and the Arab world. It also offers a brief overview of the political and social realities of the Arab world. / Chapter two is an introduction to the particularities of the French cultural landscape. It looks at the historical and social movement towards the democratization of culture, specifically through the transformation of the museum and of cultural institutions as a whole. / Chapter three aims at identifying the repercussions of the French cultural policies on the Institute's functioning. The perceived failure of these policies is confronted with the official discourse surrounding the Institute. / Chapter four is a mapping of the different discourses that manifest themselves through the Institute. The multiplicity of the discourses and the discrepancies of their proclaimed objectives are understood to be at the source of the malfunctioning of the Institute. / This thesis does not attempt at finding solutions to the many problems of the Arab World Institute. It is rather an excavation work that aims at bringing forth some of the issues that could be explored while attempting at finding a resolution to the ailments of the Institute.

This paper relates to Franco-Japanese relations between 1932 and 1945 in East Asia. In order to do this, it examines French behavior towards the Japanese in Shanghai and Indochina, France's position during incidents such as the 1932 Shanghai Incident, its policy during the Sino-Japanese conflict as well as its changing role and position in East Asia during the 1930s and 1940s, especially with the changes brought upon by the Second World War. This paper also pays attention to how France, as well as other Western nations, viewed Japan and East Asia, as well as how it affected East-West relations during this period. Finally, the paper describes the complex relations that existed between Vichy France, Free France, Indochina as well as Japan. It ends with events such at the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, that led to the eventual Japanese takeover of French territories in East Asia and the irreparable damage to France's position in East Asia.

In both a general review of Franco-American relations and in a more specific discussion of the Anglo-American good offices mission to France in 1958, this thesis has attempted first, to analyze the foreign policies of France and the United States which developed from the impact of the Second World War and, second, to describe Franco-American discord as primarily a collision of foreign policy goals--or, even farther, as a basic collision in the national attitudes that shaped those goals--rather than as a result either of Communist harassment or of the clash of personalities.

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Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2019