These days, when we hear the slogan ‘let's make our country great again’ we almost automatically assume the state concerned is the US, and the leader uttering the slogan is President Trump. This article invites readers to explore the discourse and practices through which another national leader is seeking to restore his country's ‘greatness’ and promote national and international security. The leader concerned is France's Emmanuel Macron. Why focus on the French president? Because since his election he has become the most dynamic European leader, on a mission to enhance France's international stature, and to do so via a broader process of protecting and empowering the EU. More broadly, France stands out as a country whose political leadership has long been committed to the goal of playing a global role. As Pernille Rieker reminds us, ‘Since 1945, French foreign policy has been dominated by the explicit ambition of restoring the country's greatness [la grandeur de la France], justified in terms of French exceptionalism’.1Macron has cast his vision of national/European greatness, security, and international order in opposition to the isolationist, rigidly nationalist visions articulated by his domestic opponents and, internationally, by President Trump. In his view, France and Europe can only be secure if they defeat the illiberal ideas advocated by the increasingly vocal political forces, particularly far-right movements, seeking to undermine the core values and multilateral principles of the post-1945 international order. Under these circumstances, an analysis of Macron's policies and practices of grandeur can help us gain a better understanding of the competition between liberal and illiberal worldviews – a competition that is increasingly pronounced within the Western world.

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铭记法国的荣耀，在特朗普时代保卫欧洲

这些天，当我们听到“让我们的国家再次伟大”的口号时，我们几乎不自觉地认为相关国家是美国，而说出这个口号的领导人是特朗普总统。本文邀请读者探讨另一位国家领导人寻求恢复其国家的“伟大”并促进国家和国际安全的话语和实践。有关领导人是法国的伊曼纽尔·马克龙。为什么要关注法国总统？因为自选以来，他已成为最具活力的欧洲领导者，在使法国的国际身材中提升，通过更广泛的保护和赋予欧盟的过程来实现。更广泛地说，法国作为一个政治领导层长期致力于发挥全球作用的国家而脱颖而出。法兰西的伟大]，根据法国例外论是合理的”。1马克龙将他对国家/欧洲伟大、安全和国际秩序的愿景与国内反对者以及特朗普总统在国际上所表达的孤立主义、严格的民族主义愿景相对立。在他看来，法国和欧洲只有击败越来越多的政治力量，特别是极右翼运动所倡导的、试图破坏 1945 年后国际秩序的核心价值观和多边原则的非自由主义思想，才能获得安全。在这种情况下，分析马克龙的政策和做法宏伟可以帮助我们更好地理解自由主义和非自由主义世界观之间的竞争——这种竞争在西方世界越来越明显。