Les États-unis restent incontournables
En sus d’une pandémie, cette décennie est déjà assombrie par la résurgence de la rivalité entre grandes puissances, une évolution particulièrement menaçante pour la paix dans le monde.
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Tag: Syria
Trump’s Syria Trifecta: A Win for Putin, a Loss for the Kurds and Lots of Uncertainty for Our Allies
On the eve of the Iraq war, in 2003, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain addressed a joint session of Congress about America’s foreign policy mission: “In some small corner of this vast country, out in Nevada or Idaho or these places I’ve never been to but always wanted to go,” said Blair…
Read MoreMoyen-Orient: les gagnants et les perdants des nouvelles alliances
Provisoirement cimentés et stabilisés par la lutte contre l’organisation État islamique (EI), les réseaux d’alliance au Moyen-Orient se reconfigurent aujourd’hui très rapidement. L’offensive turque en Syrie, déclenchée le 8 octobre, accélère encore ce grand jeu des ligues et des ententes: d’anciens ennemis…
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The Structure of a Diplomatic Revolution
NEW YORK — It has been nearly 60 years since the philosopher and historian Thomas Kuhn wrote his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
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Can ISIS regroup? Lessons from Interviews with ex-ISIS Fighters
ISIS is not a territory on a map — it is a people group in search of a homeland, and as the last several years have proven, any piece of land from the Middle East to the Philippines will do.
Read MoreIt is not very clear to me what the honourable gentleman has in his mind or if he has anything in his mind at all.
On various occasions during his campaign, President –then candidate-, Trump had reiterated…
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What Putin Wants in Syria
NEW YORK – On February 7-8, according to Western sources, a US-led airstrike on forces aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad killed at least 300 Russians, all working for the private military firm Wagner.
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La bombe à retardement syrienne
L’actuel conflit en Syrie présente de nombreux points communs avec la guerre de Trente Ans qui ravagea le cœur de l’Europe – notamment la ville germanique de Magdebourg, sorte d’Alep de l’époque – entre 1616 et 1648.
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Supporting Turkey’s Refugee Response
Turkey’s crackdown on press freedom and political dissent is of great concern to many, for good reason.
Read MoreIt is still to be found out if mr. Vladimir Putin has, indeed, invested heavily on a Trump presidency.
If he has, then one can hardly imagine of means and effort more profitably spent.
Read MoreThe Kurds of Iraq are and must remain a valuable asset of the West in the M. East;
They will be all the more so if the worst comes to the worst, as it might well happen. They must not be abandoned in their hour of need.
Read MoreA Kurdish autonomous entity stronger and more assertive… It will be sufficiently beneficial to the West…
They “all” agreed, it appears…
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