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Essay on a post-modern despotism : demo-despotism
To want democracy all at once and everywhere is a magical and ideological approach. The democratic injunction and prediction will fail. We live in a despotic period, with three kinds of new ‘enlightened tyrants’ despotismes éclairés : the one coming from the ‘hyperpower’ hyperpuissance, inspired by the Bible, Carl Schmitt and Nietzsche ; increasing theocracies ; and a soft one called demo-despotism that offers a democratic appearance against a despotic reality. Fair liberal laws and policies are (...)
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Before and beyond Cancun
This article was written in the immediate aftermath of the WTO Ministerial Conference held in Cancun in July 2003. It aims at demonstrating that this is merely a rebound in the eventful history of North-South relations. The author thinks that reality will demand that negotiations be reprised, since the international community has gained a clearer awareness of the gravity of the existing problems, and of the necessity to solve them on new bases. To this effect, it has adopted a series of (...)
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Transatlantic allergy
As one dresses the inventory of transatlantic tensions, one brings to light more than a misunderstanding : a real difficulty to agree on security interests and the means to defend them, whether the experience is American or European. The two philosophies of action and reaction to crises feed on different sources : it is no wonder that an burgeoning mutual allergy should be the result.
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The transatlantic strategic fight
The United States do not have a military adversary the size of the USSR anymore, but they are discovering a competitor with the political emergence of Europe. The confrontation is systemic. It has a specific importance concerning the systems of production of armament : between the American and European systems, a "new arms race" is incoming, whose stake is to control the markets of the friendly countries and allies on the one hand and the markets of the emergent countries on the other hand. (...)
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Security and liberalism in the United States
This analysis raises the question of the privatisation of security functions in the United States of America from two cases ; (1) the task of the think tanks [1] and (2) the role of the media and the public opinion. More precisely, we intend to show how, and through which means, the privatisation of security tends to reinforce the realism (as the practice of realpolitik) of the American foreign policy.
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Djihad fighters in Occident
Far from being limited to an imprecise organisation centralising the ensemble of djihad fights throughout the world (« Al-Qaeda »), the Islamist radical organisations are, on the contrary, engaged in a local violence problematic. In Western countries - for instance, France and the United States -, there exist different factors at the origin of the making of local djihad fighters, distinct from those who prevail for instance in Egypt or Algeria. This article aims at studying different American (...)
