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[email protected] Mark O. Rousseau Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/poliscifacpub Part of the Political Science Commons Recommended Citation Neathery-Castro, Jody L. and Rousseau, Mark O., "Does French Matter? France and Francophonie in the Age of Globalization" (2005). Political Science Faculty Publications. 19. https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/poliscifacpub/19 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Political Science at DigitalCommons@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Political Science Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UNO. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE FRENCH REVIEW, Vol. 78, No. 4, March 2005 Printed in U.S.A. Does French Matter? France and Francophonie in the Age of Globalization by Jody Neathery-Castroand Mark 0. Rousseau THE ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE (OIF) increasingly acts as a powerful French-speaking voice in defense of both French cul ture and language and in advancing French-speaking nations' multiple global, political and economic interests. While the OIF includes devel oped as well as developing1 nations, its policies and financial resources come fromits wealthier and more economically powerful members, fuel ing charges that it exists to represent those members' interests.