Alexandra Fray

- Marie Peltier's "La Bataille des récits" (The Battle of Narratives)

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The "information war" is on everyone's lips. Since the health crisis and even more so with the conflict in Ukraine, this war, which is not military, social, or economic, is tearing public debate apart. Everyone wants to impose their way of telling the world, and it's hard to agree on a common narrative. Truth has become a battlefield.

In light of the geopolitical upheavals of the last twenty-five years – from the September 11, 2001 attacks to the events of October 7, 2023, including the Syrian conflict and the election of Donald Trump in 2017 – Marie Peltier shows how this narrative and semantic battle has strengthened dictatorships by undermining public trust in democracies. She analyzes how the debate has been constantly reduced to an opposition between a narrative presented as "official," promoted by democracies, and an "alternative" narrative, put forward by their detractors.

As France is increasingly influenced by the far-right, the author asks: how can we explain such a victory for anti-democratic discourse, both geopolitically and within our societies? And more importantly, can it still be fought?

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