Escalating domestic costs force colonial powers to abandon ideological colonial formulas

Evidence

De Gaulle was now determined to get rid of the “Algerian problem” at the earliest possible date. Like Henry Kissinger with Vietnam in 1973, he was a man in a hurry. Nothing else mattered. “Francisation”, “association”, all such idealistic formulae had long since been abandoned; now any claim to the Sahara must be sacrificed, and the best deal possible accepted for the pieds noirs. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1543

Categorization

• XREF: The Kissinger/Vietnam parallel reinforces the comparative decolonization-exit theme running through the reader’s research. — connects to: The new Republic’s economic survival hinged on continued colonial aid; Colonial expansion was foreclosed by ideology and prior European division of the world; World War I weakened republican ideology and shifted colonial policy toward conservatism (+3 more)

Related

• Colonial expansion was foreclosed by ideology and prior European division of the world (similarity 0.91)
• State cost-cutting drove the Indies administration’s turn to rural reform colonies (similarity 0.87)
• Any social revolution in Algeria required breaking colonial ties first (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial military dominance ceased to be decisive in Algeria’s war. (similarity 0.78)