The oceans are suffocating

04/08/2022

Protection of the oceans has long been the poor relation when it comes to environmental policy, particularly during international conferences.

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NATO: back to the Cold War

07/07/2022

The fact that NATO is taking Europe’s security back into its own hands is a sharp blow to French-backed plans for EU autonomy.

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Stagflation: Back to the seventies

12/05/2022

The world economies are going through a period of stagflation: high inflation and zero growth. Watch out!

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Samuel Huntington’s Revenge

23/09/2021

The controversial author of The Clash of Civilizations didn’t get everything wrong. Samuel Huntington gave an early warning to our democracies are now going through.

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The archipelization of the world

14/09/2020

Whilst economic factors brought globalization into being, it is politics and the divergence of cultures and values that are driving it to implosion.

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The fall of the West

04/05/2020

The West has lost its credibility and shown its vulnerability by its failure to deal with the systemic risks and crises that mark the 21st century.

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Back To The 1930s?

16/07/2018

The way in which the international world order is configured at present borrows as much from the early 1900s as from the 1930s. Politics is taking its revenge on the economy.

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The Whole World Tilted Over At La Malbaie

14/06/2018

In demolishing the way the international system is structured, Donald Trump is reshuffling the pack of power cards. It’s up to Europe to capitalize on it.

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Democracies In The Face Of Violence

07/05/2018

With increased intensity and a change in its very nature, violence is proliferating throughout society and is becoming an end in itself.

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Soft power is a thing of the past

22/03/2018

Putin, Xi Jinping, Erdogan, Trump… “Hard power” is reshuffling the geopolitical cards.

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Climate: market forces and education can bring deliverance

18/12/2017

Consumer pressure for ecological transition is forcing businesses into conversion.

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