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The journal's editors conduct a brief interview with Patrick Weil about Sarkozy's recent election victory in France. Weil is a French political scientist who serves as Director of Research at the Center for Twentieth Century Social History at the University of Paris. Specific topics covered in the interview include the increasing polarization of the French electorate, the right-wing shift in French politics that is represented by Sarkozy's victory, the implications of the victory for the future of the European Constitution, the role of immigration issues in the election, the reasons for the failure of Segolene Royal & the Socialist Party, the historical rupture that Sarkozy has caused with the policies of Chirac, & the probable nature of Sarkozy's future relations with the UK & the US. R. Young