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"Contemporary France is an accessible, interdisciplinary introduction to contemporary France, providing systematic coverage of culture, society, economy, and politics set in a historical and geographical context. A central theme is the relationship between popular images of France - flowing from its cultural, culinary, and linguistic influence, its appeal as a tourist destination, and the influence of its republican and revolutionary heritage - and the often contradictory realities of French society facing up to globalization, Europeanization and the other challenges of the 21st century. With its broad coverage of politics, culture, society, economics, and history, this text will appeal to students across a range of degree subjects."--

This volume examines France's relations with, and responses to, the European Union and the potential for further integration.

Drawing on exclusive interviews with Jacques Delors himself, this comprehensive, accessibly written study of his life and Commission presidency is an invaluable resource for all those interested in European and French Politics. Debunking populist images and myths about him, this book presents a balanced examination of a widely misinterpreted political figure. This book also raises important issues such as: the role of individual leaders in contemporary politics the legitimacy of the European Union as a political system.

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: DRAKE, H., 2014. Country focus: France. Political Insight, 5 (3), pp. 22 - 25., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-9066.12071. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. ; France's economy is struggling, the far-right Front National is gaining ground and former President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to return to 'save' the country from itself. Helen Drake examines whether France can restore its reputation as a global economic player and a democratic beacon.

This article asks whether student peer advisors can contribute to curriculum 'internationalisation' through their role in promoting and supporting student mobility. We conducted a single case study of Erasmus student mobility at Loughborough University between 2010-2012, and our experiment offers a perspective on the possible futures of European Studies, where the decline of foreign language learning may find compensation in the internationalisation of the curriculum via the opportunity for study mobility abroad. Adapted from the source document.

This paper is closed access. ; European and global affairs are typically downplayed at election time in France, as elsewhere, and a rudimentary observation of the French 2012 presidential elections would appear to confirm this hypothesis. However, this article argues that in the case of the 2012 French elections the issues of 'Europe' and 'the world' were significant and inextricably linked to many of the ostensibly domestic campaign issues raised by candidates, media and voters. With reference to the campaigns, the broader electoral contexts and the results, the analysis of this apparent paradox suggests how global forces both shaped the 2012 domestic contest in France and constitute a broader picture in which France has been deemed by some commentators to be a 'flawed democracy'.