As the Oslo Accords celebrate its 20th anniversary (which allowed the assumption that through direct negotiation between Palestinians and Israelis this could lead to the creation of a viable Palestinian State, and to the recognition of the State of Israel by the Arab states, within secure borders)…
The mood of today’s France seems very difficult to discern. In fact, it is taking shape with precision, in hollow, through the French people response to the most significant events of recent days…
There are a thousand excellent reasons not to go into Syria…
Since the invention of photography in 1826, this technology, which Baudelaire was one of the first to understand the importance, has established itself successfully as an art in its own right. And even more so, as the easiest form of art to practice for everyone: you do not become a musician just like that; you can become a photographer just like that…
Peu de comparaisons sérieuses ont été faites entre la chute, semble-t-il réussie, des dictatures à l’Est de l’Europe et les innombrables échecs des printemps arabes. En principe, on aurait pu espérer les mêmes résultats…
Can we still talk about the issues at stakes surrounding September? After all, the planet today is such that it will be more and more difficult to talk about « September », when the spectacle of the world is increasingly permanent, and its interaction with our own concerns ever increasing…
The heatwave that Europe is experiencing today does not just affect the daily life of vacationists. It is also a reminder of the climate change we face and takes us back to the influence of climates on our civilizations, which Aristotle, Montesquieu, and later Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie, with others, framed the theory…
A new ideological and geostrategic discourse is appearing in the American political, economic and military ruling circles. Faced with the rise of Chinese power, which will soon become, inevitably, the world’s largest economic power, in terms of production, we are now hearing a new speech in Washington…
In many areas, the East has many things to teach to the West. And those on the subject of the use of the mind are the most important ones. India as well as China have made them into areas of research, experience and practice for a long time…
