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Marc Lazar

Director of the History Center of Sciences Po

Marc Lazar is Director of the History Center of Sciences Po, and a President of the LUISS school of government in Rome. He is a specialist of the History of left-wing parties, and Italian politics. He created and moderates the GREPIC (a pluri-disciplinary research group on contemporary Italy) at the International Research Center of Sciences Po. He is the author of multiple books focusing on Italy, most of which have been translated into Italian.

He graduated from the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS).

Analyses

What Can the New Italian Government Achieve Politically and Economically?

10 November 2022 | Marc Lazar | Eric Chaney

This article, belonging to the Observatory of Populism, is part of Institut Montaigne’s new partnership with the Illiberalism Studies Program at George Washington University, which will extensively cover populist voices, whether in Brazil, Europe, or in the crowded US midterm election landscape....

The Mattarella-Draghi Italian Duo

27 July 2022 | Marc Lazar

Forged in the turmoil of a political, health and economic crisis, the Draghi-Mattarella duo led Italy from February 2021 to the end of July 2022. They complied with the functions laid out in the constitution for the two presidential roles: President of the Republic and President of the Council of...

What Does It Take To "Win" a Divided Country?

26 April 2022 | Marc Lazar

What is perhaps most remarkable about the 2022 election, is that Emmanuel Macron is the first president of the Fifth Republic to be reelected without being in a cohabitation. In the past, cohabitations have allowed outgoing presidents - like François Mitterrand in 1988 and Jacques Chirac in 2002 -...

French Presidential Election: What can we learn from the first round?

Three questions to Marc Lazar

11 April 2022 | Marc Lazar

The first round of the French presidential election has retained the same two candidates as 2017’s second round. Beyond these similarities, what major lessons can be learned from this election? Particularly with regards to the state of major traditional parties such as Les Republicains and Parti...

In Italy, Not All Roads Lead to Stability

Three questions to Marc Lazar

4 February 2022 | Marc Lazar

On Saturday, January 29, during the eighth round of Italy’s presidential election, Sergio Mattarella was reappointed as head of state with 759 of the 984 votes. His acceptance of another presidential term - despite expressing his wish to retire from politics - is indicative of the urgency and...

European Populism, From Left to Right

10 November 2021 | Marc Lazar

Populists have been on the rise for several decades now. Of course, the prominence of the parties and movements that fall into this category fluctuates over time. Unexpected electoral successes are sometimes followed by sudden and unpredictable setbacks that immediately make such advances appear as...

What a Center-Left Victory Means for Italian Politics

Three questions to Marc Lazar

21 October 2021 | Marc Lazar

The Italian center-Left won in local elections in October, leaving the Right wing defeated. What does this electoral result mean for the country’s center-Left alliance, the Right-wing coalition, and most importantly, for the future of Draghi’s government? Can this election symbolize a global...

Mario Draghi, a Savior in the Land of Miracles?

23 February 2021 | Marc Lazar

Some say Italy is the land of miracles, and the arrival of Mario Draghi at the head of the government seems to provide further proof. Yet rather than resorting to such clichés, it is important to understand what led the President of the Republic to call the former President of the European Central...

Anger puts Covid-19 measures to the test

Three questions to Marc Lazar

2 February 2021 | Marc Lazar

Violent protests erupted in the Netherlands and Denmark after new measures were imposed to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. In France, the anti-restriction discourse is still marginal but seems to be gaining ground. Can these movements eventually hinder the implementation of new measures? How can...

2020, A Turning Point for European Populists?

11 December 2020 | Marc Lazar

December is always a good time to draw up year-end balance sheets. That is all the more true for this particular year, one of profound changes whose medium and long term effects are yet to be known. Among all the upheavals that have taken place, one paradoxically ambivalent one in particular...

Italian Elections: Conte Supported at Salvini’s Expense

Three Questions to Marc Lazar

25 September 2020 | Marc Lazar

On September 20 and 21, the Italians were called to the polls in order to vote on three different ballots: a referendum to reduce the number of members of parliament by a third, municipal by-elections, and elections in seven regions (Veneto, Liguria, Campania, Tuscany, in the Marches, Apulia and...

Leaders Revealed by Covid-19: The Curious Giuseppe Conte

1 September 2020 | Marc Lazar

What hasn’t already been said of the major, global and ongoing crisis that has hit the world since Covid-19 started spreading across the globe? The crisis is under heightened scrutiny, legitimately so, in all its dimensions, be they sanitary, economic, political, social, geopolitical,...

Italy, Coronavirus and the European Union

19 March 2020 | Marc Lazar

Italy is the country most affected by the spread of the coronavirus. At the time of writing this article, on March 18, there were more than 29,000 cases of infected people and more than 2,900 deaths. Once the epidemic is contained, the time will come for a global health assessment. It will also be...

Italy – On The Verge of Breaking With Europe?

13 June 2019 | Marc Lazar

The League of Matteo Salvini seems to be irresistibly rising. It obtained 34.2% of the votes in the European elections (compared to 6% in 2014), took the Piedmont region from the Democratic Party (centre-left) on the same day and, in June, confirmed its momentum by winning a number of...

China and Europe: Divorce Italian Style?

The Cross-Analysis of François Godement and Marc Lazar

2 April 2019 | François Godement | Marc Lazar

The Italian and Chinese governments signed an agreement on 23 March sealing Italy's entry into the New Silk Road project, despite Brussels' reluctance. François Godement, senior advisor for Asia to Institut Montaigne and Marc Lazar, contributor on French and European political and institutional...

The Persistence of the "Yellow Vest" Movement

9 January 2019 | Marc Lazar

Nothing seems to work. Not the concessions made by President Macron on 10 December -nearly €10 billion in various social measures- which widen the public deficit and undermine France's credibility within the Eurozone. Nor the holiday season, which was supposed to bring serenity and calmness. Not...

Portrait of Matteo Salvini - Italian Minister of the Interior

21 December 2018 | Marc Lazar

This autumn, we had published on our blog a series of portraits - written by the most relevant authors - of personalities that we described as "neo-authoritharians". Mr. Putin opened the series and Mr. Trump closed it, with Mr. Orban, Mr. Erdogan, Marshal El-Sisi, MBZ and MBS (gathered in...

What Future for the Yellow Vests?

Three Questions to Marc Lazar

12 December 2018 | Marc Lazar

For more than a month now, Yellow Vests have been in the spotlight, undermining the French government and thus forcing it to react. How can we explain this movement, which is not linked to any political party and which apparently brings together people from all sides? How can this movement, which...

The First Steps of the Italian Government

11 June 2018 | Marc Lazar

The Five Star Movement and the League finally managed to form a government in agreement with President Sergio Mattarella. Marc Lazar, contributor on French and European political and institutional issues, shares his insights on the first days of this new populist government. Since 4 March,...

Elections in Italy: Euroscepticism, Migration, Berlusconi, etc. Marc Lazar’s Analysis

20 February 2018 | Institut Montaigne

On 4 March 2018, Italians will cast their votes to renew their Parliament. 315 new senators and 630 new deputies will be appointed to join the XVIIIth legislature of the Italian Republic. Marc Lazar, Professor of History and Political Sociology at Sciences Po and President of the Luiss School of...

Mediterranean Regionalisms: Same, Same… But Different?

8 December 2017 | Marc Lazar

It is a known fact: one cannot infer much from comparisons. Nonetheless, how can one not be struck this end of year 2017 by the rise of regionalist claims in Catalonia, Lombardy, Veneto and Corsica? There are undoubtedly substantial differences between each case. "Catalonia, Lombardy and...

The Request for More Autonomy in Times of Representation Crises

14 November 2017 | Marc Lazar

Three weeks following the vote in Catalonia, the Lombards and the Venetians called for a referendum on their region’s autonomy. Certain hasty commentators have proceeded to amalgamate these events and see them as the proof that the European Union’s cohesion is threatened by a heavy process of...

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