Keyword: Dominique Strauss Khan

France BRICS up Emerging Economies

Picture: Adam Tinworth M K Bhadrakumar - Former United States secretary of state Henry Kissinger once complained that Europe didn't have a single telephone number. He didn't know who to turn to as the authentic voice of Europe. The same can be said today about BRICS, the grouping that has come to personify the best and the brightest emerging powers in the global order. BRICS comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.  Dominique Strauss-Kahn's summary exit from his job as the managing director of the...

Weep Not for Strauss-Kahn

Picture: Parti socialiste Diana Johnstone - French Leftists Should See Silver Lining In a flood of carefully designed public opinion polls, editorials, and books bordering on idolatry, the French communications industry had already settled next year’s presidential election. The loser would be Nicolas Sarkozy, sagging in the polls. The winner would be Dominique Strauss-Kahn, ever on the rise. True, the French Socialist Party had not yet chosen its candidate, and Strauss-Kahn had not yet announced his candidacy, but the party...