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.
With a career spanning more than 40 years, which has taken him to various theatres of war in Europe and Africa, Belgian General Guy Buchsenschmidt has extensive military and geostrategic expertise. In this interview, he explains why he fears a new ‘Verdun’ in the war in Ukraine that has been raging for over two years.
French Iranian sociologist, academic and essayist Azadeh Kian analyses the motivations of the Tehran regime, the issues at stake in the march to war and the driving forces behind the powerful protest movement that is undermining the power of the Revolutionary Guards.
Sociologist, Iranologist and political scientist on the contemporary Muslim world, Amélie Myriam Chelly is the acclaimed author of an excellent Dictionnaire des islamismes (Éditions du Cerf, 2021). She has just published, with the same publisher, a “documentary novel” entitled “Le Coran de sang”. Interview.
Luis Martinez is an eminent politician specialising in the Maghreb and the Middle East. He has been Director of Research at Sciences Po-CERI since 2005. A visiting professor at Columbia University in New York (2000-2001) and then in Montreal (2007-2008), he was an observer for the European Union in sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of several books, including “L’Afrique du Nord après les révoltes arabes” (Les Presses de Science Po, 2019) and “L’Afrique, le prochain califat? La spectaculaires expansion du djihadisme” (Tallandier, 2023). Interview.