title: The extreme left and foreign policy: The “Altermondialist project” by J.-L. Mélenchon
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metadata.value: Shmelev, Dmitry V.
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metadata.value: 2022-08-10T15:59:31Z
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metadata.value: 2022-08-10T15:59:31Z
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metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.value: Shmelev D. V. The extreme left and foreign policy: The “Altermondialist project” by J.-L. Mélenchon. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2022, vol. 15, issue 1, pp. 31–44.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu06.2022.103
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37310
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metadata.value: The constant presence of the extreme left in media space and its active political role in the life
  of modern France contribute to the development and presentation of its own foreign policy
  project to voters. One of its brightest representatives is the “La France insoumise” movement
  and its leader J.-L. Mélenchon, author of several books, mastermind of the Internet platform
  and personal blog, and presidential candidate. The program of “La France insoumise” is mainly
  addressed to domestic political problems. However, it contains analyses and proposals about the most relevant aspects of foreign policy, combined under the conditional name “altermondialist
  project.” In the foreign policy program of “La France insoumise,” three important aspects
  can be distinguished, which this article explores: attitudes to the functioning and basic
  principles of the European Union, geopolitics, and the place of France in the modern world,
  “political Francophonie.” Attention to these problems stems from the specifics of left-wing
  political culture, the traditional attention of the left to the problems of European integration,
  colonialism, democracy, and human rights. At the same time, in Mélenchon’s program we
  see references from the Gaullist heritage and foreign policy experience of the Fifth Republic.
  Mélenchon’s “altermondialism” does not imply the renunciation of national sovereignty or the
  nation-state, just as it recognizes the inevitability of globalization. In the spirit of the extreme
  left, he criticizes its neoliberal version, offering his own version of world reconstruction. The
  published policy documents and brochures of “La France insoumise,” as well as interviews and
  reflections of its leader, allow us to build a complete picture of an alternative foreign policy
  program of the extreme left, which was originally presented at the presidential elections in
  2012 and 2017, and then, in an updated version, was prepared for the upcoming presidential
  elections in 2022.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. International Relations;Volume 15; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: France
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: foreign policy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: La France insoumise
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: J.-L. Mélenchon
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: extreme left
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The extreme left and foreign policy: The “Altermondialist project” by J.-L. Mélenchon
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metadata.value: Article
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