H-Diplo | ISSF POLICY Series 2-5 (2019): France’S Yellow Vests: Lessons from a Revolt
H-Diplo | ISSF POLICY Series 2-5 (2019): France’s Yellow Vests: Lessons from a Revolt Published on 24 April 2019 | issforum.org Forum Editors: Michael C. Behrent and Diane Labrosse Web and Production Editor: George Fujii Shortlink: http://tiny.cc/PR-2-5 Permalink: http://issforum.org/roundtables/policy/2-5-yellow-vests PDF URL: http://issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/Policy-Roundtable-2-5.pdf Contents Introduction by Michael C. Behrent, Appalachian State University ....................................... 2 Essay by Emile Chabal, University of Edinburgh ..................................................................... 8 Essay by Valérie Charolles, école des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) Translated for H-Diplo by Michael C. Behrent ............................................................................................ 12 Essay by Valérie Charolles, école des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) ............... 16 Essay by Daniel A. Gordon, Edge Hill University ................................................................... 20 © Copyright 2019 The Authors | H-Diplo/ISSF Policy Roundtable 2-5 (2019) Introduction by Michael C. Behrent, Appalachian State University n the ongoing saga of contemporary populism, France’s Yellow Vest movement has sounded something like the other shoe dropping. In 2016, Brexit and Donald Trump’s election shattered prevailing political orthodoxies by mobilizing populations around a potent cocktail of xenophobia, protectionism, and Isovereignism. Forces with a family resemblance to these movements are calling the shots in Italy, Hungary, and Poland. Yet while France had for years been a major breeding ground of far-right ideas, it seemed, in its May 2017 presidential election, to dodge the populist bullet: Emmanuel Macron’s triumph over Marine Le Pen was widely touted as a victory of hope, tolerance, and internationalism over fear, hate, and nationalist retrenchment.
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