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The French Crisis: Organic or Conjunctural?

Since 2017, France’s Fifth Republic has been polarized between three novel coalitions—techno-bourgeois, far-right and radical left. After July’s snap elections, as Macron once again pockets the ‘anti-fascist’ vote and installs a conservative Prime Minister, Nathan Sperber argues that a Meloni-style domestication of Le Pen may be on the horizon.

Party and State in China

Unlocking the conceptual monolith of the ‘party-state’, Nathan Sperber sets the evolving relationship between the CCP and the vast governmental apparatus through which it rules in comparative historical context—revealing novel features of the Xi Jinping era.