Fédération de Russie

Un dépassement du concept militaire de guerre?

Si dans la tradition occidentale la guerre comme "poursuite de la politique par d'autres moyens" (Clausewitz), associe à la finalité, conçue par la politique (Zweck), des actes de violence pour imposer à l'autre notre volonté, le concept décisif de la violence étatique et de l'action guerrière sont-ils toujours essentiels à la rationalité politique du conflit belliqueux dans la pensée militaire chinoise?

Navalny n'est ni Lénine, ni Kravchenko, ni Soljénitsyne. Il ne porte ni la promesse révolutionnaire du premier, ni la dénonciation de la tyrannie et la quête de liberté du deuxième, ni encore la voix du goulag et l'âme profonde de la vieille Russie du troisième. Il ne s'élève pas contre les vices éternels du pouvoir et de leurs occupants éphémères, mais contre la vanité d'un autocrate, Poutine. Il ne combat pour une autre idée du régime, mais contre un Prince, qu'il accuse d'être vindicatif et corrompu.

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Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has stunned the Russian government, forcing President Vladimir Putin to confront significant protest. Navalny was nearly killed in August by the Novichok nerve agent but he survived after being airlifted from Russia to Germany, where he spent five months recovering.

Sun Tzu est une figure à la fois historique et légendaire, qui appartient à la Chine des royaumes combattants, celle du IVe siècle avant Jésus-Christ. Son identité est incertaine, sa biographie vide et la véracité de son œuvre contestée. Qui est donc Sun Tzu et pourquoi son actualité ? Mérite-t-il de figurer sur les frontons de gloires militaires et par là de nos maîtres à penser ?

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Donald Trump’s presidency became known for its “America First” ideology in the face of an increasingly belligerent China, with focus on the Indo-Pacific rising consistently in the eyes of world leaders.

What will Biden’s presidency mean for this highly contested region and how will China react to the same? And how will US’s China policies, largely built on bipartisan fears, proceed in coming four years?

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International Organizations (IOs), created by the commitments made by sovereign states, exist in the conceptual and legal space between state sovereignty and legal obligation.

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Is the West really declining or what we’re actually seeing is a rebalancing, as the East reassumes the kind of economic significance its population size demands? Western countries have only really been in the ascendant for a handful of centuries, whereas countries like China and India have been economic juggernauts for most of their long histories with China being until the 16th century the world’s dominant economy.

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The last time a peace deal in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) was made with Israel was in 1994, when King Hussein of Jordan (the same king who oversaw the attack of Israel in 1967 when Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem) recognized the Jewish state. Before that, in 1979 Sadat, president of Egypt, had recognized for the first time a Jewish state.

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The 75th anniversary of the United Nations is an opportunity to reflect and look back on the UN’s history and take stock of its achievements and failures. It is also an opportunity to spotlight where the UN and the international community as a whole need to redouble their efforts to meet current and future challenges across the three pillars of UN: peace and security, development, and human rights.

MARK RUTTE, LE SOMMET DE BRUXELLES ET LE TRAITE DE WESTPHALIE.pdf

Mark Rutte, le perturbateur implacable