This would be bitterly contested, risking political fallout that could stretch the Fifth Republic beyond the limited elasticity of its president-centred constitution. Macron would face widespread ...

But today, the Republic that once inspired revolutions finds itself unraveling, its once-mighty institutions buckling under the weight of dysfunction and discontent. The Fifth Republic ...

Despite various crises and encircling empires, the Venetian Republic avoided foreign rule, revolution, and collapse. It ...