'Adam Plowright's excellent book captures the strangeness of Macron’s life' Evening Standard THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN ENGLISH From total unknown to one of Europe's most powerful men in just a few years, at 39, France's ...
Author: Adam Plowright
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 9781785783128
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 204
View: 939
'Adam Plowright's excellent book captures the strangeness of Macron’s life' Evening Standard THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN ENGLISH From total unknown to one of Europe's most powerful men in just a few years, at 39, France's youngest leader since Napoleon is intent on conquering the world stage. But what lies beneath the façade of this youthful, ultra-confident and calculating president? How did someone from small-town France assemble -- in just 12 months -- the network, team and finances to win the presidency? Now elected, can he make the French feel better about themselves? Can he rally Europe around him and turn the tide of right-wing nationalism sweeping the continent? Critically, what will his presidency mean for Britain? Featuring never-before printed interviews with key members of Macron’s team, his friends, mentors and political detractors, acclaimed Paris-based journalist Adam Plowright asks: can the shine on this brilliant new president last? And for how long?
Release on 2005 | by Senior Lecturer in French Studies Emmanuel Godin
Chapter 12 Cultural exception ( s ) in French Cinema Brigitte Rollet * There are
few areas in which the idea of a possible French exception has asserted itself to
such an extent as in the field of culture , and it is actually hardly surprising that the
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Author: Senior Lecturer in French Studies Emmanuel Godin
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1571816844
Category: History
Page: 249
View: 124
The notion of French exceptionalism is deeply embedded in the nation's self-image and in a range of political and academic discourses. Recently, the debate about whether France really is "exceptional" has acquired a critical edge. Against the background of introspection about the nature of "national identity," some proclaim "normalisation" and the end of French exceptionalism, while others point out to the continuing evidence that France remains distinctive at a number of levels, from popular culture to public policy. This book explores the notion of French exceptionalism, places it in its European context, examines its history and evaluate its continuing relevance in a range of fields from politics and public policy to popular culture and sport.
Are the French really as special as they believe? And if so is that the secret of their extraordinary success in art, cookery, and fashion in la bonne vie? Or the reason for their economic failure, endless strikes and high unemployment. The high-speed TGV railway, the Louvre pyramid, post-war cinema, France has produced many distinctive achievements which are the envy of the rest of the world. But it is also a country plagued by political corruption and extremism, widespread pessimism and a heavy bureaucracy. What does vive la difference really amount to and is it still in the interests of France or the rest of us in Europe?
Thus the campaign provided an interesting example not only of the pertinence
and durability of the notion of the 'French exception' in French public debate, but
also of the way in which the notion can be mobilised in defence of opposing ...
Author: T. Chafer
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9780230281394
Category: Political Science
Page: 279
View: 921
Analyzes the notion of the French exception and the ways in which it has informed both academic analysis and political commentary on France today. Adopting a comparative and interdisciplinary approach it examines the resilience of the notion of French exceptionalism and evaluates its relevance in a changing domestic and global context.
même que quandelle est au premier rang” (a certain idea of France where she is
her real self only when she is at the forefront [of international leadership]).13 The French exception has led to a policy of cultural protectionism and greatly ...
Author: Lyombe S. Eko
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739181133
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 330
View: 895
This volume explores and explains sameness and difference between the United States and France in the matters of freedom of expression on the Internet, the management of the tensions that arise between freedom of expression and the right of privacy of public figures, the comparative role of interest groups in the regulation of Internet content in both countries, the intellectual property implications of the digitization and transfer of journalistic works from print to searchable electronic databases, how courts in the United States and France managed the copyright issues that were triggered by the Google Book Search project, as well as the clash between intellectual property rights and freedom of expression in the area of parody or “gripe” web sites on the Internet. The volume presents American exceptionalism and the French exception as functionally equivalent logics that lead to different freedom of expression outcomes. This book makes a significant contribution to comparative communication law studies, an area that has not received serious academic interest.
GLOBALIZATION AND THE FRENCH EXCEPTION No book about globaloney
would be complete without a chapter on the French and their attitude toward
globalization, Americanization, and market forces generally. The French have a ...
Author: Michael Veseth
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0742536599
Category: Political Science
Page: 267
View: 839
"Research show that every human being is capable of having a creative thought. We have creative abilities that often show up very early in life. Studies show that the average adult thinks of only three to four alternate ideas for any given situation, while the average child can come up with sixty ideas. They have proven that as far as creativity is concerned, quantity equals quality. Having the subjects make a list of ideas, they have shown that the longer the list, the higher the quality of the final solution. The very best ideas usually appear at the end of the list. Actually, creativity is bred into us as humans; it's in our genes - apart of our very own DNA. Unfortunately, as we grow older, the pressures of having to grow up, go to school, get a job, all seem to repress our creative tendencies. The stress of everyday living coupled with occasional dilemmas, leaves us too drained to be truly creative. But creativity is power and is essential to our well-being. Without creativity, our lives become predictable, routine, boring, and pedantic. The good news is we can all be highly creative. Now I know you're saying, "But I'm not at all creative. I can't paint or even draw a straight line, I don't know one note from another, and I've never been able to write worth a darn. Okay, so most of us are not Mozart, DaVinci, Einstein, or Shakespeare. However, we are all creative in our own way. We simply have to recognize our own unique talents and skills".Creativity: The Problem Solver
French Idiomatic Expressions Arnold Borton, Henri Mauffrais ... to except /
exclude excepter exceptfor thefew pieces offurniture I gave him he's nothing ofhis
own à l'exception des quelques meubles / si j'excepte les quelques meubles que
je ...
Author: Arnold Borton
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 9781608603329
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 798
View: 734
A book that will make you able to understand what you are told and give an appropriate answer in the most frequent situations of daily life.
TEN American Exceptionalism, the French Exception, and Harmonization of
International Intellectual Property Law by the United States and France As we
have seen elsewhere in this volume, the United States and France are self-
proclaimed ...
Author: Lyombe S. Eko
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739167908
Category: Law
Page: 492
View: 136
New Media, Old Regimes: Case Studies in Comparative Communication Law and Policy, by Lyombe S. Eko, is a collection of novel theoretical perspectives and case studies in comparative communication law. Through these cases, Eko describes, explains and illustrates how a number of nation-states, transnational, and international organizations employ culture-specific “distillations” of universal principles to resolve tensions between freedom of expression and other societal interests in real space and cyberspace. This study provides essential scholarship on comparative communication law and policy.
Julian Wright and H.S. Jones The French exception What makes France different
? More than two decades have elapsed since François Furet, Jacques Julliard,
and Pierre Rosanvallon published a much-debated book which argued that the ...
Author: N. J. G. Wright
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230272095
Category: History
Page: 270
View: 776
The idea of the centralized State has played a powerful role in shaping French republicanism. But for two hundred years, many have tried to find other ways of being French and Republican. These essays challenge the traditional account, bringing together new insights from leading scholars.
Release on 1887 | by Philippe Honoré Ernest Brette
exception of one , who , breaking the vase ( m . ) with his francisque , or battle -
axe , said brutally to the king , ( 57 ) “ Thou shalt only ( 488 , 20 ( 6 ) ) have , as
others have , 5 that which is thy share . " Clovis dissembled his anger ; but the ...
6 French Public Policy Research Institutes and Their Political Impact as Another
Illustration of the French Exception Lucile Desmoulins Introduction to the French Exception Think tank look alikes are trying to take an increasing part in the ...
Author: JAMES G EDITOR MCGANN
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412839890
Category: Political Science
Page: 617
View: 225
Government and individual policymakers throughout the developed and developing world face the common problem of bringing expert knowledge to bear in government decision making. Policymakers need understandable, reliable, accessible, and useful information about the societies they govern. They also need to know how current policies are working, as well as possible alternatives and their likely costs and consequences. This expanding need has fostered the growth of independent public policy research organizations, commonly known as think tanks. Think Tanks and Civil Societies analyzes their growth, scope, and constraints, while providing institutional profiles of such organizations in every region of the world. Beginning with North America, contributors analyze think tank development past and future, consider their relationship to the general political culture, and provide detailed looks at such examples as the Heritage Foundation and the Institute for Research on Public Policy. A historical and subregional overview of think tanks throughout Europe notes the emphasis on European Union issues and points to a dramatic rise in the number and influence of free market institutes across the continent. Think tanks in Germany, Spain, and France are profiled with respect to national politics and cultures. Advanced industrial nations of northern Asia are compared and contrasted, revealing a greater need for independent policy voices. Moving to countries undergoing economic transition, contributors deal with challenges posed in Russia and the former Soviet bloc and their think tanks' search for influence, independence, and sustainability. Other chapters deal with the developing countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, finding that the number, quality, and independence of think tanks is largely determined by the degree of democracy in individual nations.
Many French sports analysts are inclined to cite the French Ligue 1 (FL1) as the
best-managed football league in Europe. It is suggested that the French exception copes better than others with football's financial pressures. This
exception has ...
Author: John Goddard
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781781003176
Category: Games
Page: 480
View: 308
In this comprehensive Handbook, John Goddard and Peter Sloane present a collection of analytical contributions by internationally regarded scholars in the field, which extensively examine the many economic challenges facing the world's most popular
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. . . . . . . . Is private International Law a part of Municipal Law ? . . . . Should French
Courts apply to Aliens the rule of private International Law of their country to ...
Is France truly an exception in such company, and does this – and if so, how –
inform our study of the French variety? Almond and Verba's (1963) comparative
study of political cultures deliberately missed France out ofits study, because it
did ...
Author: Ludger Helms
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9780857932730
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 224
View: 580
'Leaders are not always heroes. Bad public leadership is a big problem. If we are serious about holding our public leaders to account, then we need to know why they were bad, and why we supported them. Ludger Helms and his distinguished team tackle these difficult questions with sympathy, not cynicism. Their careful and insightful analysis alerts us to the dangers of venal and poorly performing leaders.' – R.A.W. Rhodes, University of Southampton, UK 'Leadership and the lack of it is a central but underexplored issue in the study of contemporary politics. Ludger Helms is to be congratulated for bringing together a group of leading scholars to examine the relationship between leadership and governance.' – William E. Paterson OBE, Aston Centre for Europe, UK In leadership research there is a long tradition of focusing attention on the great and successful leaders and, more recently, on issues of good governance. This study breaks new ground by looking systematically into the manifestations and causes of poor leadership and bad governance in some of the world's most powerful democracies. Focusing on the presidents and prime ministers of the G8 – the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan – it explores the complex relationship between weak and ineffective leadership, undemocratic leadership techniques, and bad policies from a broad comparative perspective. What makes leaders weak or bad in different contexts? What are the consequences of their actions and behaviour? And has there been any learning from negative experience? These questions are at the centre of this fascinating joint inquiry that involves a team of truly distinguished leadership scholars. This book will prove invaluable for scholars and students of leadership, political science, contemporary history, and related academic disciplines. Readers with a general interest in public affairs and political history will also find plenty to interest them.
We can only hope that, by starting a conversation about the changing shape of
contemporary French politics, this book ... different approaches to this question,
see Tony Chafer and Emmanuel Godin, eds., The End of the French Exception?
Author: Emile Chabal
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781472507440
Category: History
Page: 240
View: 521
Until the mid-20th century, France saw itself as a great power with universalist aspirations and global ambitions. But the Second World War and decolonisation irrevocably changed France's place in the world. Despite attempts to restore the country's 'grandeur' in the 1960s, the French have been forced to reconcile themselves to their modest place at the heart of a changing Europe. What impact has this had on political life? How have the French reimagined the revolutionary, republican and reactionary ideologies that have been so crucial to their history? How has the arrival of hundreds of thousands of postcolonial migrants transformed politics? These are just some of the questions at the heart of France since the 1970s. With contributions from leading specialists on topics as varied as the legacy of empire and neo-liberalism, it explores how the French have dealt with the pervasive sense of uncertainty that has become a defining feature of contemporary European politics.
... the politics of 'cultural exception'. In the acrimonious GATT (Global Agreement
on Tariffs and Trades) negotiations of 1992–94, Claude Berri's classic literary
adaptation Germinal (1993) stood out against the backdrop of the French-
American ...
Author: Belén Vidal
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231850049
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 144
View: 563
This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical debates around the heritage film, from its controversial status in British cinema of the 1980s to its expansion into a versatile international genre in the 1990s and 2000s. This study explores the heritage film in light of questions of national identity in film and television, industry and funding, and history, gender and representation. Using a wide range of examples and including an in-depth analysis of three case studies – Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Joyeux Noël (2005) and The Queen (2006) – this book presents the heritage film as a thriving phenomenon at the centre of contemporary European cinema.
