Since Antiquity, the Mediterranean connects its neighbors in various ways. Under influence of conflicts between Christianity and Islam and between the West and the Orient, common ways of life and ongoing cultural exchange could not prevent the emergence of different political-cultural identities in the region, pushed further in the Renaissance and Enlightenment era’s. European colonization in the 19th and 20th century occasionally bridged these contrasts but even between France and Algeria, two countries that established close relations, cultural symbiosis did not emerge.
Published:
Politische Studien
Publication Year:
2009
Author(s):
Roland Hohne.
