France, unable to reform, can change only through revolution, it's often said. Will Nicolas Sarkozy's election, with 53 percent of the popular vote on May 6th, as the new president of the French Republic defy conventional wisdom?

BY Patrick Sabatier 7 May 2007

It might be argued that globalization plays in the hands of Islamists who preach "jihad," or holy war, against the West, and those who dream of Europe walling itself against Islam

BY Patrick Sabatier 18 October 2006