france: all articles

Tuesday 16th June

Sarkozyland: France's inward politics

Patrice de Beer, 16 June 2009
France's Euro vote reveals a rearmed right, lost left, and broken centre. But there's a green gleam
Wednesday 20th May

Le Pen. La fin.

Jerome di Costanzo, 20 May 2009
The French extreme right is splintering as Le Pen, charismatic leader, fails to pass on his mantle
Wednesday 13th May

France’s lost and found ideals

Patrice de Beer, 13 May 2009
The noble principles on which modern France was founded are in trouble. But there is search for renewal
Thursday 9th April

Esther Duflo: the new French intellectual

Patrice de Beer, 9 April 2009
A scholar-activist's lesson: help the world’s poor by learning to do more for less
Monday 9th March

France's Obama fixation

Daniel Nichanian, 9 March 2009
Enthusiasm for Obama's success provides a window into the glaring shortfalls of French society
Wednesday 18th February

La grève: republican spirit

Hugh Cleary, 18 February 2009
France's readiness to strike is a reminder that republicanism survives even as its structures fail
Friday 6th February

France’s politics of regicide

6 February 2009
A profound crisis drives many French citizens to embrace an “anti-capitalist” option
Wednesday 17th December

France’s socialist crack-up

Patrice de Beer, 17 December 2008
France's political "elephants" have blocked an effort to reinvent the left. But not for ever
Friday 28th November

Claude Lévi-Strauss at 100: echo of the future

Dan Sperber, 28 November 2008
The pioneering anthropologist's ideas still inform understanding of the human mind and its cultures
Wednesday 12th November

Nicolas Sarkozy: world leader, local problem

Patrice de Beer, 12 November 2008
France’s president has wider ambitions. He may be reminded that all politics is local
Tuesday 9th September

France in Afghanistan: a wounded mission

Patrice de Beer, 9 September 2008
The burden of France's foreign-policy change under Nicolas Sarkozy may be too heavy to bear
Thursday 7th August

China and the Olympics: a view from France

Patrice de Beer, 7 August 2008
The failure of judgment towards China among the French political class is all the more reason to reaffirm universal standards of human rights, says Patrice de Beer.
Monday 28th July

Nicolas Sarkozy, the frenetic leader

Patrice de Beer, 28 July 2008
The French president’s Mediterranean initiative is a perfect example of his image-led leadership
Monday 28th April

May ‘68: France's politics of memory

Patrice de Beer, 28 April 2008
The fortieth anniversary of the student revolt traps the French in the cunning of history
Monday 21st April

Aimé Césaire: poetry as weapon

Nira Wickramasinghe, 21 April 2008
A passionate, lyrical voice that embraced négritude, Marxism and surrealism is stilled
Thursday 27th March

“Starkozysme": the French president’s retreat

Patrice de Beer, 27 March 2008
A series of failures and criticisms is forcing Nicolas Sarkozy to attempt to reinvent himself
Wednesday 6th February

Sarkozy and God

Patrice de Beer, 6 February 2008
The French president's vision of religion in public life is at odds both with his country's history and his own character
Friday 7th December

Sarkozy and Africa: big white chief's bad memory

James McDougall, 7 December 2007
The French president's view of Africa is rooted in imperial fantasy
Friday 30th November

Nicolas Sarkozy’s striking test

Patrice de Beer, 30 November 2007
The hot November of a hyperactive president
Wednesday 10th October

Nicolas Sarkozy’s world

Patrice de Beer, 10 October 2007
France's new foreign policy could face an Iran test
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