Geopolitician and essayist Frédéric Encel analyzes the repercussions of the new shockwave shaking the Middle East after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and the rise to power of an Islamist coalition led by Abu Mohammed al-Joulani, a former figure of ISIS and al-Qaeda.
Chloé Morin, a political scientist and essayist, served as the director of the Opinion Observatory at the Jean Jaurès Foundation (2017-2020) and was an advisor to two left-wing Prime Ministers, Jean-Marc Ayrault and Manuel Valls (2012-2016). She is the author of several essays, including “The Unmovables of the Republic: You Will Never See Them, but They Govern” (Éditions de l’Aube, 2020), “Populism to the Rescue of Democracy?” (Gallimard, 2021), and “We Get the Politicians We Deserve” (Fayard, 2022). In this interview, she analyzes the consequences of the censure of Michel Barnier’s government.
Historian and writer Nicole Bacharan, a prominent expert on the United States where she lived for many years, analyzes the Democrats’ downfall and Donald Trump’s triumph.
Former editor-in-chief of Spectacle du Monde, Gérald Olivier is a keen observer of American politics. He is the author of Sur la route de la Maison-Blanche : le dictionnaire des élections présidentielles américaines (Jean Picollec Éditeur, 2020). In this interview, he analyzes the repercussions of Donald Trump’s reelection for the United States and the rest of the world.
A former US ambassador to Japan under the Trump administration, Kenneth R. Weinstein is outspoken in his support for the Republican candidate. A great connoisseur of American foreign policy, in this interview he details the repercussions for the rest of the world of a possible return of Donald Trump to the White House.
The American presidential election is like no other, with a campaign full of twists and turns. We asked historian André Kaspi, a specialist in the history of the United States, to shed some light on the subject.
Director of the Observatoire des radicalités politiques and researcher at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès, essayist (“Les droites extrêmes en Europe”, Le Seuil, 2015), Jean-Yves Camus analyses the root causes of the eruption of radicalism on the French political scene.
Lawyer, essayist, columnist at Le Figaro and on the CNews channel, founder and chairman of Avocats sans Frontières, Gilles-William Goldnadel took up his pen the day after 7 October to write a “Journal de guerre” (Fayard), marked in particular by his analysis and rejection of the mediatic Islamo-leftism. In his view, anti-Semitism has “moved from the extreme right to the extreme left”. Explanations.
An engineer and graduate of the Ecole polytechnique of Alger, MBA major at Sciences Po-Paris and essayist author of “Décomposition française” and “Les dindons de la farce” (Albin Michel), Malika Sorel was a member of the High Council on Integration. This proponent of assimilation and secularism came second on the Rassemblement National list for the European elections. Explanations.
Abnousse Shalmani is a journalist, novelist and essayist. In her new book entitled “Laïcité, j’écris ton nom” (Éditions de l’Observatoire, 2024), she praises secularism and universalism. And she points straight to the threat posed to France by Islamism.