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. 

A review of Jacques Chirac's twelve years in office.

Jacques Chirac, France's president, warned none too subtly that France might still block the enlargement of the EU.

The Nobel Peace Prize is the world’s most prestigious award, as Jay Nordlinger argues in this erudite and insightful history. He has written not only the go-to reference book for the prize and its laureates but also an important philosophical reflection on the nature of “peace” in modern times.

Last week, French president Jacques Chirac delivered the Iranians a warning that their next steps may cost them far more dearly.

Ifthe electionlooks hopeless now, hours before voting day, it is McCain himself who has made it so.

But analysts said that the French "no" raised a more worrying concern for the Bush administration, ushering in an uncertain time of weak leadership in nearly every major country in Europe even as the Continent turns decidedly inward.

Gerhard Schroeder and Jacques Chirac are in the pangs of the most humiliating defeat and repudiation in recent European politics. Who says there's no justice in the universe?