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Frexit
Frexit: hypothetical French withdrawal from the European Union, a portmanteau of "France" and "exit" coined after Brexit. Promoted by Marine Le Pen and François Asselineau, it would proceed under Article 50 TEU; Le Pen abandoned it after her 2017 defeat.
Friedrich Akel
Friedrich Karl Akel was an Estonian statesman and ophthalmologist who served as Estonia's head of state from March to December 1924 and as foreign minister three times.
Friedrich Ebert
Friedrich Ebert (1871–1925), German Social Democratic leader, first Reich President of the Weimar Republic; SPD chairman from 1913, headed the 1918 Council of People's Deputies, elected president 11 February 1919.
Friedrich Ebert Jr.
Friedrich Ebert Jr. (1894–1979), eldest son of Weimar Reich President Friedrich Ebert, was an SPD journalist, Reichstag member, Nazi concentration camp prisoner, and then SED co-founder who served as East Berlin's first Lord Mayor from 1948 to 1967 and later as GDR Staatsrat deputy chairman.
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German socialist theorist and Marx's lifelong collaborator, co-author of the Communist Manifesto, author of Anti-Dühring and The Origin of the Family, editor of Capital volumes 2–3.
Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust
Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (1809–1886), Saxon and Austrian statesman; Saxon foreign minister 1849–66, Austrian foreign minister and first Austro-Hungarian Reichskanzler 1867–71, negotiator of the 1867 Ausgleich with Deák, later ambassador in London and Paris.
Friedrich Merz
Friedrich Merz (born 1955, Brilon) is a German CDU lawyer and politician; CDU chairman since 2022 and Federal Chancellor since 6 May 2025 leading a CDU/CSU-SPD coalition, after earlier serving as CDU/CSU Bundestag faction leader 2000-2002.
Friedrich Naumann
Friedrich Naumann (1860–1919), German Protestant pastor turned left-liberal politician; founded the Nationalsozialer Verein and Die Hilfe, wrote Mitteleuropa, co-founded the DDP, and became its first chairman in the Weimar National Assembly.
Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Friedrich Wilhelm Paul Leopold (1785-1831), Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, founder of the younger Glücksburg line in 1825; father of Christian IX of Denmark and ancestor of the Danish, Greek, Norwegian, and British royal houses.
Friends Stand United
Friends Stand United (FSU), also known as Fuck Shit Up, is a Boston hardcore punk crew founded by Elgin James with straight edge roots, initially anti-racist, later an FBI-classified street gang.
Friendship Medal (友谊勋章) (China)
Friendship Medal (友谊勋章), China's highest state honor for foreigners, created under the 2015 national medals law; first awarded June 8, 2018 to Vladimir Putin; later recipients include Nguyen Phu Trong, Rahmon, Rousseff, and Vucic.
From Bakunin to Lacan
From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power is Saul Newman's 2001 Lexington Books founding text of post-anarchism, comparing anarchist and poststructuralist thought on power, essentialism, and the subject.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
Marx's 1875 distributive principle from the Critique of the Gotha Programme, also called the needs principle: contribution by ability, receipt by need, in higher-phase communism; preceded by Saint-Simon and Blanc, adapted by Lenin and welfare states.
From the river to the sea (من النهر إلى البحر)
From the river to the sea (من النهر إلى البحر), also "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," is a contested political slogan referring to the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, used since the 1960s by the PLO, Hamas, and Likud with conflicting meanings.
Front for Democracy in Burundi
The Front for Democracy in Burundi, or FRODEBU, is a Burundian party founded in 1986 whose 1993 victory made Melchior Ndadaye the first democratically elected Hutu president.
Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy
The Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD) is a political party in Djibouti that began as an Afar rebel group in 1991.
Frontbench team of Nigel Farage
Frontbench team of Nigel Farage: the Reform UK spokespeople announced 17 February 2026, Robert Jenrick (Treasury), Suella Braverman (education), Richard Tice (business, trade, energy), Zia Yusuf (home affairs), not a formal shadow cabinet since Reform had eight MPs.
Frontline States
The Frontline States (FLS) were a loose coalition of southern African states formed in 1975 to oppose white minority rule and coordinate support for liberation movements.
Fu Yaoyu
Fu Yaoyu (傅尧俞), courtesy name Qinzhi, was a Northern Song scholar-official, 1024 to 1091, who served four emperors, opposed Wang Anshi's New Policies, and became Zhongshu Shilang in 1089.
Fuad I of Egypt
Fuad I (Ahmed Fuad, 1868–1936), ninth ruler of Egypt's Muhammad Ali dynasty: Sultan 1917, first King of Egypt 1922–1936, enacted the 1923 and 1930 constitutions, fought the Wafd, and claimed the caliphate in 1924.
Fuad II of Egypt
Fuad II, also known as Ahmed Fuad II, was the last king of Egypt, reigning as an infant from 1952 to 1953 before Egypt became a republic.
Fuad Masum (فواد معصوم)
Fuad Masum (فواد معصوم), born 1938 in Koya, is a Kurdish Iraqi politician, PUK co-founder, first Kurdistan Region prime minister, and President of Iraq 2014–2018 who nominated Haider al-Abadi as prime minister in 2014.
Fuddle duddle
Fuddle duddle is a Canadian euphemism for "fuck" or "fuck off", coined by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1971 after he was accused of mouthing an obscenity in the House of Commons.
Fufufafa
Fufufafa is an anonymous Kaskus account, allegedly owned by Indonesian Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka, that went viral in September 2024 for insulting Prabowo Subianto, SBY, and celebrities; ownership was never verified.
Führer
Führer, German for "leader"; title of Adolf Hitler as Führer und Reichskanzler from 2 August 1934, created by merging presidency and chancellorship after Hindenburg's death, basis of the Führerprinzip.
Führerprinzip
Führerprinzip (leader principle): Nazi doctrine of absolute obedience to a single charismatic leader, organizing the NSDAP and German state 1933–1945; also common to interwar fascist movements, critiqued via Kershaw's 'working towards the Führer'.
Fujimorato
The Fujimorato is the period of Peruvian history covered by President Alberto Fujimori's government from 1990 to 2000, marked by an authoritarian regime built after his 1992 self-coup and ended by his resignation.
Fujimorism
Fujimorism (fujimorismo) is the Peruvian political movement around Alberto Fujimori (president 1990-2000) and his daughter Keiko Fujimori's Fuerza Popular, combining right-wing authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and clientelism; defined by the 1992 autogolpe and returned to power in 2026.
Fujiwara no Momokawa
Fujiwara no Momokawa (藤原百川; 732–779), originally named Odamaro, was a Japanese court noble and statesman who placed Emperor Kōnin on the throne in 770 and made his son Emperor Kanmu crown prince in 773.
Fujiwara no Uchimaro
Fujiwara no Uchimaro (藤原内麻呂; 756–812) was a Japanese court noble of the early Heian period who served as Minister of the Right under Emperor Heizei.