The recent election outcomes significantly changed the political leadership of France and Greece - American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Scholars Desmond Lachman and Danielle Pletka are available to comment on their economic and foreign policy implications.

India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In his book India: A Portrait, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain India’s larger national narrative and exposing the cultural foundations of its political, economic and social complexities. Sadanand Dhume, a resident fellow at AEI, will moderate a discussion about this book. Walter Andersen, director of SAIS’s South Asia program, will provide introductory remarks.

On May 6, all eyes will be focused on the second round of the French presidential election, which Socialist challenger Francois Hollande is likely to win. Equally important for Europe’s future is the Greek parliamentary election scheduled for the very same day.

A clear majority of French citizens believe this is all a conspiracy. Yet every day, it becomes ever more clear that the French--particularly the French socialists who counted DSK as their leader--turned a blind eye to the man's ever more risky and appalling behavior.

Francoise Hollande’s defeat of Americain Nicolas Sarkozy does matter when it comes to foreign policy because Sarkozy has arguably been the most alliance-friendly French leader in decades—perhaps ever. 

Although the Roussely Report is exemplary in many respects, it has one fundamental weakness: its assumption that, when multiple French nuclear corporations express interest in the same contract, they should join together for a shared bid.