{"id":4901,"date":"2010-03-25T14:15:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T19:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4901"},"modified":"2011-01-20T15:14:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T20:14:39","slug":"sarkozy-challenged-from-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/03\/25\/sarkozy-challenged-from-the-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarkozy challenged from the right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4903\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/03\/Sarkozy-Villepin1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sarkozy &amp; Villepin\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" \/>French President Nicolas Sarkozy (r.)\u00a0is being <a title=\"challenged\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/25\/AR2010032500797.html\" target=\"_blank\">challenged<\/a> from within his own party by former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin (l.).\u00a0\u00a0 The challenge could split Sarkozy&#8217;s ruling\u00a0conservative party in the 2012 elections.\u00a0\u00a0International relations Professor <a title=\"William Keylor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/keylor\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Keylor <\/a>reminds that Villepin was the aristocratic French foreign minister who scolded U.S. Secretary of State Powell during the U.N. debate over the Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The contrast in style between the two rivals within the French conservative ranks could not be more striking &#8212; it&#8217;s like a pedigreed poodle challenging a pit bull.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact William Keylor, 617-358-0197, <a href=\"mailto:wrkeylor@bu.edu\">wrkeylor@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Nicolas Sarkozy (r.)\u00a0is being challenged from within his own party by former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin (l.).\u00a0\u00a0 The challenge could split Sarkozy&#8217;s ruling\u00a0conservative party in the 2012 elections.\u00a0\u00a0International relations Professor William Keylor reminds that Villepin was the aristocratic French foreign minister who scolded U.S. Secretary of State Powell during the U.N. debate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2537,2538,2536],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4901"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7830,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions\/7830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}