TY - JOUR
AU - Buchanan, Tom
AB - 968 BOOK RE VIE WS Little wonder, then, that Maurice Papon, who took office as Prefect of the Paris Police at the behest of Charles de Gaulle at the height of the Algerian War in 1958, would draw on the institutional heritage of police raids, immigrant evictions, street beatings and ‘coercive interrogations’ to build a new apparatus of urban policing designed not just to compel compliance but to terrorise its immigrant targets. Papon, of course, was no stranger to policing as murder. A high-flier in Algeria’s post-war colonial administration, he is better known as a former Vichyite official, infamous for his wartime role in organising the deportation of French Jews to the death camps, a crime against humanity for which he was eventually convicted in 1999. Drawing heavily on the pioneering work of Cliff Rosenberg, Emmanuel Blanchard, Jim House, and Neil MacMaster in particular, Prakash pulls no punches in unravelling the gov- ernmental and bureaucratic support that made Papon’s turn to torture, death squads and summary killings terrifyingly easy amid the cycles of violence and reprisal that marked the last years of French Algeria. Ministries, for the most part, took Papon’s side. Elysée officials chose to ignore the obvious. 
TI - David Owen, Human Rights and the Remaking of British Foreign Policy, by David Grealy
JO - The English Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ehr/ceae122
DA - 2024-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/david-owen-human-rights-and-the-remaking-of-british-foreign-policy-by-5h3DJuqzh0
SP - 968
EP - 970
VL - 139
IS - 598-599
DP - DeepDyve
ER -