While countless crises are lurking around the corner—and can be extremely catastrophic on the financial, economic, social, ecological fronts—meanwhile in China, Russia, Turkey and India, undemocratic powers are implementing reforms to face these crises, but also rejecting human rights. And…
After much progress in the 1990s, marked by the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the evolution of Latin America, democracy now seems to be in decline. There were also, however, new advances that occurred recently. More precisely, in Morocco,…
Of course, the World Cup is an almost planet-wide distraction. And yet, at least for the time being, half of humanity almost does not play it, including the United States, India and China. This year, the victor will be a…
Often, I find myself expressing our responsibility toward future generations, in many areas, through these pages. And my thought is that if we are not careful, those who will be alive and active in 2050 will curse those who were…
When will we, Europeans, understand that we are alone? When will we draw the right conclusions? Considering what is being played out in Germany and Italy today, it should drive us to urgently search for the answers to these vital…
Ever since President Barack Obama announced in 2013 that he would not let the Syrian government use chemical weapons without a response because such act would be an unacceptable crossing of a “red line”, the expression became a political mainstay….
Everyone remembers this expression, “the mother of all battles.” Saddam Hussein used it in January 1991, at the beginning of the first conflict against the West. It was also repeated in April 2003 when the second Gulf War began. Though…
The Russian elections, similar to what occurred in the United States, China, Great Britain and elsewhere, show that the oldest political strategy recipes are still the most effective: In order to have the best chances to gain the support of…
The new incident between Israel and its neighbours should remind all strategists, political leaders and elected representatives of the people, that the future of our defence and security will soon be disrupted by a new weapon. And there is too…
