Geopolitics

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In the vicinity of hell

Geopolitics

This week while flying over the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, I thought about this reply of Bubbles, the pathetic drug dealer from the underbelly of Baltimore, discovering the affluent area of the same city, home of the ex-wife and the children of the police officer for whom is an informant in the fourth episode of the first season of one of my favorite American television series, The Wire…

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American cohabitation

Geopolitics

American democracy, they say, is an ideal model. And since Tocqueville (who admired it, while detecting the risk of seeing it one day slip into dictatorship), few have ventured to criticize its constitutional principles. Each saw in particular a nearly perfect separation of powers in the interest of the country.

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Greece, Poland and us

Geopolitics

While the Greek crisis seems to move away, the arrival, in the rotating presidency of the European Union, of Poland, sends back to the close and mysterious relationship between money and defense in all human history.

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Estates General of the World

Geopolitics

All current events (financial crisis, climate, nuclear or military issues) send back to the need for a global Rule of Law. And therefore, for a new organization of the world.

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Toothpaste and tube

Geopolitics

With the joint statement of the American and French presidents, and British Prime Minister, the military operations in Libya appear, without any debate on this issue in the Parliament of these three countries, to be entering a new phase: it is no longer a question of protecting civilian lives at risk, as required by Resolution Number 1973 of the UN Security Council, but to get rid of Gadhafi.

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The dictatorship of heedlessness

Geopolitics

Two seemingly unrelated topics have occupied and still occupy our minds: the global financial crisis and the nuclear accident in Japan. In fact, they have numerous similarities.

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Motion for battle

Geopolitics

Once again, a problem we thought to be local is becoming global: you liked Californian subprime? You will love Japanese nuclear waste…

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