Colonial Dilemmas of the West

... of development. Besides, it allows to extract considerable economic benefits from its monopoly access to natural resources that are very important for the modern French economy. What the second European giant, Germany, has to buy for hard currency, France takes in Africa practically for free. In other words, if we can talk about the relationship between the West and most of the world as a neo-colonial domination, then French influence in part of Africa is not much different from simple colonialism. Even the system of international institutions based on formal sovereignty, which the United States imposed everywhere in the 20th century, could not become an obstacle to such a strategy. However, every story has an end. Now the development ...