... World Policy Journal explores the correlation in France between support for the far-right National Front and the unemployment rate. MAP ROOM C’EST L’ÉCONOMIE, STUPIDE? World Policy Journal explores the correlation in France between support for the far-right National Front and the unemployment...

... of the non-aligned movement—Lakhdar was sent to Indonesia by the National Liberation Front of Algeria to open its first office in Asia. Over the years, Lakhdar met and chatted with everyone: from Che to Nyerere to Nasser to Nehru to Sukarno. He served Algeria as ambassador and foreign minister. He was under...

... of state, Cyrus Vance. Indeed, during that period, he was seen as the voice that gradually dissuaded Carter of his own more pacific inner convictions. He was responsible for the confrontational tone of accusations against the Soviet Union's failings on the human rights front, while at the same time playing...

... Donald Trump’s victory, the National Front’s Florian Philippot fired off a stomach-churning tweet that should serve as a warning to the left: “Their world is collapsing. Ours is being built.” The stakes could hardly be higher. If the left fails to mobilize a broad base behind an identifiable cause...

... LATEST ELECTION 2007 2015 NATIONAL FRONT 4% OTHERS 22% LEFT UNION PS 25...

... 27.4 M MARINE LE PEN I @MLP_officiel I President of the National Front JOINED: 12 K NOV. 2010 1.29 M NIGEL FARAGE I @Nigel_Farage I Member of the Eur...

... PVV, and the Danish People’s Party (DF). While France’s National Front clearly curls around Paris, its voters are almost absent inside the Périphérique—the ring road that defines the outer limits of Paris proper. Meanwhile, the protest-vote has been suburbanized. Although problems related...

... ended with the creation traffickers have paid the police and military of the National Front in 1958, a pact be­ to overlook processing labs and smuggling. tween Liberal and Conservative leaders to The low salaries paid to soldiers and police form a consociational system in which the make...

... in August 1953, overthrew the Iranian nationalist leader Mo­ when the Shah dismissed Mossadeq as prime hammed Mossadeq. As seen by Mossadeq minister, and then fled the country after and his National Front Party, the chief issue National Front demonstrators took to the was Iran’s...

... for the right of an independent state for the people of Palestine.” At the same time, Le Pen’s Front National, while somewhat divided on the issue, has supported an independent Palestine. As the center-right French daily Le Figaro put it in July: “Ce soutien à l’indépendance nationale palestinienne se...

..., populism, and authoritarianism. Under the banners of a succession of know-it-all leaders, the National Front in France, United Kingdom’s Independence Party, Silvio Berlusconi and the Five Star Movement in Italy, the newly born Podemos in Spain, as well as a galaxy of smaller parties, for the first time...

... of multiculturalism, taking steps like U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposed restrictions on immigration as part of the Brexit process. But pandering to such intolerance is a short-sighted strategy that poisons community relations. In France, many were surprised when, in 1995, the National Front (FN) won...

... percent to 48 percent margin—was not a disaster for all: Populist right-wing groups across Europe, including the U.K. Independent Party (UKIP), which did much to spur anti-EU sentiment in the run up to the U.K. vote, moved quickly to exploit the chaos. France’s National Front leader Marine Le Pen...

... for the most reactionary elements in Jean-Marie Le Pen and France’s right-wing the Catholic Church. The cardinal set the National Front party. Le Pen waged a vigor­ tone of his new papacy by selecting the ous campaign against the European consti­ name “Benedict XVI.” Meaning “blessed,” tution...

... in the Netherlands. Even in France, the far right National Front candidate, Marine Le Pen, received 18 percent of the vote in the last presidential election. And then there’s Greece, with its new extremist parties born out of crisis—the far left and the openly pro-Nazi. Disenchanted by the economic, social...

... of the Soviet Politburo, reviews gence Agency. When the mullahs took con­ all laws passed by parliament to ensure that trol of the Revolution from the liberals of they conform to their reading of Islamic law. the National Front in the late autumn of Among the bills passed by parliament but 1979,4...

... the National Front, an umbrella organization that supports Putin. The government has mounted several feeble initiatives designed to keep educated people in the country. A $428 million “mega-grant” program provides funding for scientific research projects. The Skolkovo Innovation Center and schools were...

... French tion of mosque communities according to National Front and the Dutch Lijst Pirn national laws. There were disagreements Fortuyn. As one Rotterdam city council about how far to push equity with Christian member explained to me, “Many older churches. Some protested what they saw...

... the elec­ this regard. As the EU’s December 2004 torates of the existing member states.7 Hos­ summit was advised, Turkey is a country tility to Turkish entry unites right-wing of great strategic importance that stands xénophobes (the French National Front, athwart the Middle East and Central Asia...

.... This was the right wing of the Front National, the movement Le Pen founded in 1972 as a refuge for those nostalgic for the glories of Nazi-controlled Vichy and right-wing opponents of French withdrawal from Algeria. Le Pen promised a return to some ancestral French values that are almost impossible to articulate...