Today’s conflicts have a characteristic not seen since World War II: no belligerent can yield without disappearing. After 1945, it was the fascists and the Nazis who disappeared. In the conflicts that followed, the survival of the major powers was…
Europe is not in decline. It is tired. This is not the same thing: decline is a fate; fatigue is a state. Medicine distinguishes between two forms of fatigue: Physical fatigue, which results from the depletion of energy reserves: mitochondria…
Two Americans are facing off on the world stage. One leads the most powerful empire on the planet. The other leads the West’s oldest moral institution. The first thinks he is God. The second tells him that God, today, does…
What is at stake in the war in Iran, with the catastrophic consequences looming (even if we can now hope for a respite), should remind us of a truth that has been swept under the rug for far too long….
In the 21st century, power no longer resides solely in territory, capital or technology. It now resides in a rarer, more intimate and infinitely contested resource: human attention. Attention is not simply a psychological disposition; it is a biological function….
There are some simple rules that history keeps repeating, without us ever really listening to them. Among them: never attack without being prepared for the worst. We live in a world where the balance of power is no longer where…
Despite appearances, the world is frighteningly coherent. The extraordinary interdependence of production processes, climate issues and geopolitical balances is apparent at every turn, and nowhere more clearly than in the relationship between oil crises and the organization of our cities….
Will the USA, Israel and their allies win against the Iranian terrorist regime, or will they have to resign themselves to a status quo that allows the regime to rebuild its forces? To ask the question of the fate of…
Since 1945, humanity has been living under the shadow of a third conflagration. It was feared in the confrontation between capitalism and communism, and came close to nuclear apocalypse on at least two occasions, until the implosion of the Soviet…
