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Could a 'Populist Internationale’ Redefine Europe’s Place in the 21st Century?

Mon, April 8, 2019
Lunch Program
Maya Kandel

The upcoming elections for the European Parliament (EP) will have major strategic and historic implications. Maya Kandel, French historian, scholar, and researcher at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, says that framing the elections as a fight between progressives and populists (or globalists and nationalists) is too simplistic. Instead, there are competing forces to contend with which are trying to redefine the European Union: From the transatlantic populist dialog on the political right to internal political arguments over nationalism and populist reform, from Russia seeking to undermine democratic governance to China seeking to extend its economic reach, the post-war European project is on the defensive, and Europe’s answer to the rise of populism will likely determine the future of liberal democracy.

Maya Kandel is a French historian, associate researcher at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, specializing in U.S. foreign policy and defense issues, U.S. Congress and transatlantic relations. Since 2017 she has led United States and Transatlantic Issues at the Policy Planning Staff of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs. From 2011 to 2016, she was the program director and senior researcher on the United States at the French Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM).

A graduate of Sciences Po Paris and of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, Kandel has written extensively on these subjects for academic as well as general public publications. Her work has also focused on U.S. policy and strategy on the African continent, and in particular U.S.-French military cooperation. Her latest book, a history of the U.S. relation to the world, was published in April 2018 by Perrin Editions (Paris).


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