Geopolitics

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Our world is liquid, too liquid

Geopolitics

A very great thinker, often forgotten and of whom we will no doubt hear about only on the occasion of his death, Zygmunt Bauman (a war hero in the Red Army war, who later became a communist philosopher in Warsaw,…

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In the mean time…

Geopolitics

While the French had their eyes fixed on the vote counts of one-tenth of them, the equivalent of a regional by-election, for the nomination of one of the fifteen candidates running against one another next April for the election of…

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Aleppo syndrome

Geopolitics

The tragedy of Aleppo, as we witness the daily images and the increasing hellish conditions, is battering away at long-held beliefs that all geopolitical specialists have been keen to repeat for the past twenty years. Aleppo shows that the certainties…

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The only valid question

Geopolitics, Society

In our insecure democracies, most politicians are prepared to do anything to gain or stay in power. For them in the same way that an anvil is utterly useless to an aviator: ideas, projects, values or programs are of little…

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When America will fall asleep

Geopolitics

I have talked about America’s relative decline in its power for a long time, and it is fascinating to observe its recent acceleration…

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