Pardon our French: French Foreign Policy with Isabelle Lasserre

In this episode of .think atlantic, IRI’s Thibault Muzergues is joined by Isabelle Lasserre to talk about French foreign policy. Isabelle Lasserre is a journalist and the deputy editor of Le Figaro’s international coverage. A former war reporter, she was awarded the Diplomatic Press Prize in 1999 for her reporting on conflict in Kosovo and the Caucasus. Her latest book, Macron the Disruptor: The Foreign Policy of an Antisystem President, was published in January 2022. How does the French foreign policy establishment view the world? What are France’s international interests? In what areas of French foreign policy has Macron been the most disruptive? What has Macron tried to achieve with Russia? Has Macron’s attempt to center France in European policy succeeded? Has French foreign policy failed in Eastern Mediterranean and in Africa? What opportunities does France have to change the dynamics in those regions? What is the future of Franco-American relations? Find answers to these questions and more as France decides its presidential election. Find Isabelle Lassere on Twitter @ilasserre Find Thibualt Muzergues on Twitter @tmuzergues Find .think atlantic on Twitter @ThinkAtlantic Find IRI on Twitter @IRIglobal