France

While the French far-right believes the bill could do more to fight extremism, the country’s Muslim population feels the legislation is unfairly targeting their community.

The brutal Algerian War killed hundreds of thousands of people—and deeply marks French politics and society to this day.

The French public hasn’t stopped believing in science. They’ve stopped believing in the state.

France lost the Algerian War but is still controlling the narrative about its history—while refusing to apologize or pay reparations. 

France’s state-centered development model is a natural fit for the Indo-Pacific.

The international community can help rebuild the army and institutions, but its presence cannot be permanent.

But Philippe Etienne says France won’t surrender its dream of “strategic autonomy.”

The country’s postelection violence threatens a humanitarian catastrophe—and a continued standoff between Russia and France for influence in Central Africa.

Proxy wars pitting France and Chad against Russia and Rwanda threaten to destabilize the entire region while subjecting Central Africans to more violence and instability.

Macron has prioritized a digital future. America can benefit.

Can France’s president redeem a language of colonialism to project global power today?

France is going to have a harder time selling “strategic autonomy” without the foil of the Trump administration to drive it.

The French Senegalese writer David Diop revises the modernist archetype with a protagonist long excluded from World War I literature: the African soldier on the front lines.

The real grievances behind the Ethiopian conflict, Pompeo acknowledges that the two-state solution is dead, and a look at a possible Pentagon pick.

A race-based colonial mindset that views the continent as Europe’s playground and dismisses the concerns of Africans continues to fuel death and destruction.

By championing freedom from religion while trampling freedom of religion, Macron is discrediting the Enlightenment in the eyes of Muslims—and strengthening the Islamists he vows to defeat.

European leaders misjudged World War I. America shouldn’t repeat their mistake.

Sebastian Kurz’s government failed to stop a recent terrorist attack, but he has been saying—and doing—what Emmanuel Macron is proposing for years.