by Tessa Crowley | Dec 9, 2024 | Brown University
For the past three decades, one article of clothing has captivated the attention of the fashion capital of the world: headscarves. From Marine Le Pen to Emmanuel Macron, no French politician has managed to escape the discussion of religious clothing in the public...
by Kaitlyn Hart | May 14, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
On April 24, French President Emmanuel Macron won the second round of the French presidential election, winning both a second term in office and a second campaign against rival Marine Le Pen. The French presidential election system consists of two parts; a first round...
by Akshay Yeddanapudi | May 12, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
With Emmanuel Macron’s 2022 electoral victory over Marine Le Pen, it might be tempting to view the current iteration of Fifth Republic politics as a continuation of the status quo of French democracy successfully resisting populistic sentiments. The reality, however,...
by Ella Shakin | Apr 22, 2022 | Boston University
Marine Le Pen’s populist-nationalist tactics, anti-immigration, and xenophobic sentiment could damage French democracy if she were to be elected in the April 24th runoff elections. As political scientist Joseph Schumpeter writes, the classical doctrine of...
by Polina L | Apr 20, 2022 | Rollins College
“In 10 years, will we still be the seventh power in the world? Will we still be a sovereign nation or an auxiliary of the United States, a counter of China? Will we be a united nation or a fragmented one? Faced with these vital questions, there is no fatality. Neither...
