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Europe Needs an Army

Max Bergmann
Essay

The Paradox of Europe’s Trumpian Right

Ivan Krastev
Essay

Get Ready for the Next Nuclear Age

Gideon Rose
Snapshot

Europe Takes a Trumpian Turn

Hans Kundnani
Snapshot

Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review

Putin’s New Agents of Chaos

Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan
Snapshot

How France Fell to the Far Right

Cécile Alduy
Snapshot

The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904–1939

Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review

Macron the Hawk

Célia Belin
Snapshot

Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic

Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review

The Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera

Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review

Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World

Richard Feinberg
Capsule Review

Niger’s Coup and America’s Choice

Hannah Rae Armstrong
Snapshot

Protecting the Ballot: How First-Wave Democracies Ended Electoral Corruption

Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review

Biden and Macron’s Historic Opportunity

Marie Jourdain , Célia Belin
Snapshot

France’s Perilous Political Deadlock

Robert Zaretsky
Snapshot

France’s Election Shouldn’t Have Been This Close

Célia Belin
Snapshot

Macron’s Mess in the Sahel

Stephen Smith
Snapshot

The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the Origins of France’s Political Crisis

Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review

Monsieur Fixit

Célia Belin
Snapshot

Macron’s Flawed Vision for Europe

Francis J. Gavin, Alina Polyakova
Snapshot

The Fine Print on the Global Tax Deal

Ruth Mason
Snapshot

The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

The Paris Commune Lives on in French Politics

Robert Zaretsky
Snapshot

A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century

Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review

French Technocracy Is No Match for the Pandemic

Robert Zaretsky
Snapshot

The Neoliberal Republic: Corporate Lawyer, Statecraft, and the Making of Public-Private France

Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review

Fear of Trump’s Populism Might Save American Alliances

Daniel H. Nexon, Jeffrey A. Stacey
Snapshot

France’s President Stands on Principle, But Stumbles in Practice

Justin E. H. Smith
Snapshot

The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

To Rebuild or Restore Notre Dame

Robert Zaretsky
Snapshot

The Strange Defeat of the United States

Robert Zaretsky
Snapshot

Can Middle Powers Lead the World Out of the Pandemic?

Bruce Jones
Snapshot

Why Travel Bans Fail to Stop Pandemics

Doug Saunders
Snapshot

How the West Stole Democracy From the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of Its Liberal-Islamic Alliance

John Waterbury
Capsule Review

Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

The Climate Club

William Nordhaus
Comment

Are Books Essential?

Robert Zaretsky
Snapshot

The Polanski Affair

Robert Zaretsky
Snapshot

The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History

Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review

A France Without Jews Is No Longer Unthinkable

Robert Zaretsky
Snapshot

The Looming Tax War

Itai Grinberg
Snapshot

Trump’s Napoleon Moment

Robert Zaretsky
Snapshot

Ambivalence About Moscow Is a French Tradition

Robert Zaretsky
Snapshot

When Progressives Were on the March

James E. Cronin
Review Essay

The Myth and Meaning of Resistance

Robert Zaretsky
Snapshot

Rooting for a New Patriotism

Robert Zaretsky
Snapshot

What’s Left of the Left?

Mitchell Abidor
Snapshot

France Faces Its Extremes

Robert Zaretsky
Snapshot

The Elections That Will Decide Europe’s Future

Saim Saeed
Snapshot

The Global Language of Hatred Is French

Marc Weitzmann
Snapshot

Oh, The Humanité

Mitchell Abidor
Snapshot

The End of the French Intellectual

Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review

The Broken Bargain

Jack Snyder
Comment

A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment

Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review

The Yellow Vest Protests and the Tragedy of Emmanuel Macron

Arthur Goldhammer
Snapshot

Broken Europe

Helen Thompson
Snapshot

How France and Italy’s Rivalry Is Hurting Libya

Federica Saini Fasanotti, Ben Fishman
Snapshot

Europe's Quest for Financial Independence

Thorsten Benner
Snapshot

Macron's Reformist Victory

Sophie Pedder
Snapshot

Letting Europe Go Its Own Way

Sven Biscop
Snapshot

Can France Be America's New Bridge to Europe?

Célia Belin
Snapshot

The Gourmands’ Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy

Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review

The Future of France's National Front

Cécile Alduy
Snapshot

The Euro in Decline?

Kathleen R. McNamara
Snapshot

How the French Saved America: Soldiers, Sailors, Diplomats, Louis XVI, and the Success of a Revolution

Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review

Macron’s World

Ronald Tiersky
Essay

How France Is Making Libya Worse

Jalel Harchaoui
Snapshot

France’s Gamble

Natalie Nougayrède
Comment

Terror in the Terroir

Jytte Klausen
Review Essay

Exception Taken: How France Has Defied Hollywood’s New World Order

Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review

A Tale of Two Socialists

Jonathan Hopkin
Snapshot

Macron's Party Wins a Parliamentary Majority

Arthur Goldhammer
Snapshot

In France, a Government Without an Opposition?

Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Snapshot

Meeting Macron in the Middle

Thorsten Benner, Thomas Gomart
Snapshot

Macron's Victory

Arthur Goldhammer
Snapshot

Macron's Win in Context

Jonathan Fenby
Snapshot

The Trouble for France's Next President

Camille Pecastaing
Snapshot

The French Election and Europe's New Normal

Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Snapshot

A Historic But Unsurprising Election In France

Martin A. Schain
Snapshot

Pandering to the Far Right Doesn't Help

Alina Polyakova
Snapshot

The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of “Les Misérables”

Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review

Will France Move Onward or Inward?

Martin A. Schain
Snapshot

French Foreign Policy Since 1945: An Introduction

Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review

Can France Stem the Populist Tide?

Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Snapshot

Europe in Russia's Digital Cross Hairs

Thorsten Benner, Mirko Hohmann
Snapshot

A Europe of Merkel and Fillon?

Camille Pecastaing
Snapshot

Russia and France's Right

David Cadier
Snapshot

No Westphalia for the Middle East

Selim Can Sazak

France’s Next Revolution?

La prochaine Révolution française?

French Intelligence Reform

Robin Simcox
Snapshot

Another Bloody Day in France

Camille Pecastaing
Snapshot

Referendum Revenge

R. James Breiding
Snapshot

France's Bridge Too Far

Martin A. Schain
Snapshot

Don't Fear Muslim Immigrants

Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin, Marie-Anne Valfort
Snapshot

Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present

Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review

The French Disconnection

Olivier Decottignies

Why ISIS Beats al Qaeda in Europe

Clint Watts
Snapshot

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