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The crisis of the Ivory Coast is rich in general lessons, on the impossible setting in supervision of the companies by international institutions, whose strategies are often contradictory; on the manufacture of the instrumentalized representations through media systems; on the dynamics of external alliances from the opposite factions; on the return, vis-a-vis a process seen like a recolonization, to precolonial registers of action and fight, with a strong ethnic component.

Michel Galy Political Analyst, is Research Fellow at the Centre d’études sur les conflits (Paris) and at the Centre de recherche of the Écoles de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan (CREC).