Why Macron Won The French Presidential Race And Growing Islamic Conservatism In Southeast Asia

Incoming French President Emmanuel Macron walks towards the stage to address his supporters at the Louvre Palace in Paris, Sunday May 7, 2017. Polling agencies have projected that centrist Macron will be France’s next president, putting a 39-year-old political novice at the helm of one of the world’s biggest economies and slowing a global populist wave. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)
Incoming French President Emmanuel Macron walks towards the stage to address his supporters at the Louvre Palace in Paris, Sunday May 7, 2017. Polling agencies have projected that centrist Macron will be France's next president, putting a 39-year-old political novice at the helm of one of the world's biggest economies and slowing a global populist wave. Christophe Ena/AP
Incoming French President Emmanuel Macron walks towards the stage to address his supporters at the Louvre Palace in Paris, Sunday May 7, 2017. Polling agencies have projected that centrist Macron will be France’s next president, putting a 39-year-old political novice at the helm of one of the world’s biggest economies and slowing a global populist wave. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)
Incoming French President Emmanuel Macron walks towards the stage to address his supporters at the Louvre Palace in Paris, Sunday May 7, 2017. Polling agencies have projected that centrist Macron will be France's next president, putting a 39-year-old political novice at the helm of one of the world's biggest economies and slowing a global populist wave. Christophe Ena/AP

Why Macron Won The French Presidential Race And Growing Islamic Conservatism In Southeast Asia

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On today’s show:

  • We discuss the factors that led to Emmanuel Macron’s win and how he could shape the future of France and Europe with Maxime Larive, the Associate Director of the European Union Center at the University of Illinois.
  • Over the past three decades, fundamentalist Muslims in many Southeast Asian countries have tried to homogenize the practice of Islam. We discuss the political culture in these countries with Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid, an associate professor of political science in Universiti Sains Malaysia.