Lexington Books
Pages: 284
978-1-66690-130-6 • Hardback • March 2022 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-66690-131-3 • eBook • March 2022 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Gregory D. Cleva is independent scholar and lecturer in American foreign policy at the George Mason University/Osher Life-Long Learning Institute, and a retired foreign affairs analyst for the US Department of Defense.
Introduction: Kennedy’s Algeria Speech as History
Chapter 1: The Speech: Background and Preparation
Chapter 2: The Politics and Ideals of Kennedy’s Algeria Speech
Chapter 3: What Kennedy Said
Chapter 4: Aftermath: The Controversy in Washington and Paris
Chapter 5: Nationalism and French Colonialism in North Africa
Chapter 6: The Need to Change American Foreign Policy Toward North Africa
Chapter 7: Kennedy’s Algeria Speech: An Assessment
Senator John F. Kennedy’s 1957 speech on Algeria, highly controversial at the time, has been largely overlooked since his presidency. Cleva’s careful evaluation of the speech and its Cold War context shows that Kennedy, six years before the American University speech of 1963, was already thinking in terms of viable alternatives to US policies on colonialism and the Cold War, policies that the US foreign policy establishment was convinced (erroneously) that it had no choice but to follow.
— John W. Langdon, co-author, The Struggle Against Imperialism: Anti-Colonialism and the Cold War