French foreign policy in West-Africa revisited: examining French monetary and military influence on African sovereignty

法国通过其货币和军事政策的综合结果在法语非洲国家施加影响。这个博士项目将通过探索当代法国军事货币权力结构的影响，研究后殖民主权作为西非非殖民化终点的限制。我将部署一个批判性的方法来解决这个问题的理论框架，融合国际政治经济，外交政策和后殖民潮流在一起。我将对各种来源进行定性内容分析。我的分析数据将来自法国外交消息来源，非洲公共媒体和科特迪瓦和塞内加尔实地考察期间的精英访谈-这些都是了解这些前殖民地相对于其前殖民者法国的后殖民主权程度的关键。在这篇论文中，我将开发法国殖民风格的安排如何影响西非的政治主权，通过分析科特迪瓦和塞内加尔的安全和货币结构是如何与法国纠缠在一起的方式，复制，有时挑战法国的统治。通过这种结合军事货币的重点，这项研究将有助于对后殖民主权的学术辩论产生新的见解非洲中心主义的概念，当代主权。这个研究课题福尔斯与尤尼斯博士和曼昌达博士关于种族、帝国主义和殖民主义的批判性著作是一致的。

France exerts influence in francophone African countries through its combined result of monetary and military policies. This PhD project shall study the limits of postcolonial sovereignty as an endpoint of decolonisation in West-Africa by exploring the impact of this contemporary French military-monetary power structure. I shall deploy a critical approach to this question with a theoretical framework that merges international political economy, foreign policy and postcolonial currents together. I will conduct a qualitative content analysis of various sources. Data for my analysis will be drawn from French diplomatic sources, public African media and elite interviews during fieldwork in Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal - together key in understanding the extent of postcolonial sovereignty of these former colonies in relation to their former coloniser France. In this thesis, I shall develop how French colonial-style arrangements impact West-African political sovereignty through an analysis of how Ivorian and Senegalese security and monetary structures are entangled with France in ways that reproduce and sometimes challenge French domination. Through this combined military-monetary focus, this research shall contribute to the academic debate on postcolonial sovereignties by generating new insights into Afrocentric conceptions of contemporary sovereignty. This research topic falls in line with the critical works on race, imperialism and colonialism of Dr Younis and Dr Manchanda.