Well known as the author of France: State of Emergency (10,000 copies), Christian Saint-Etienne, former lecturer at the University of Paris-Dauphine and having held positions at the IMF and the OECD, has been tenured professor of economics at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers since 2009. He has received 11 university and academic prizes for his works and his publications. He lives in Paris.
• This book builds the vision of a France that is free, strong, open and generous, proud of its identity and of its history. France has all the assets to take part in the economic revolution and to become once again a player that is geostrategically respected — even if we have hard time believing that in its current discredited condition.
• In the face of the scientific and technical revolution that has been work for the last quarter century, in the face of increased risks (warfare in the Mediterranean basin and terrorism), we need to reconstruct a long-term government, invent a new social order and transform our political institutions.

"The means exist. France has assets. The population is ready, in spite of the corporatism of vested interests. Let us lift our heads and act!" C.S.E.