L'anti-américanisme français face à la guerre du Golfe

Abstract

Anti-Americanism and the Gulf War, Anne-Marie Duranton-Crabol. The Gulf War showed that a powerful anti-American current persisted in France in the 1990s in spite of the apparent seduction of the American model following the disappearance of De Gaulle and the Berlin wall. Latent among the French who sided the American led anti-Irakian camp, Americanophobia welded together the mixed bag of war opponents. Complaints such as the vassalization of the world, the thirst for gas, the confrontation of cultures, and media misinformation also expressed a profound worry about French identity itself.