Greenland, between geographic constraints and strategic assets
Greenland, a territory under Danish sovereignty, is obtaining more and more competence as far as foreign policy is concerned. Its political and economical ambitions, nonetheless, […]
Diplomacy and security
The use of force in a changing world
The 1990s witnessed an increasingly heated international discussion about humanitarian intervention and what obligations states had to secure the rights of individuals in cases where […]
The control on weapons of mass destruction
Facing the complex and changing reality of threats stemming from the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), to which international terrorism added new ramifications […]
The European Union’s Policy of Security and Defence
The European Union has recently committed itself towards a defence policy. If it fails, the whole current European enterprise would certainly receive a severe blow. […]
The UN and the Iraqi crisis
The Iraqi crisis from September 2002 to March 2003, and its aftermath, is the result of the impossible settlement of the after-Gulf War, as well […]
Thinking security in a fluid world
The shock provoked by the events on September 11th, 2001, does not create a new world, but suggests new frames of interpretation. The world of […]
War against terrorism
Is the use of the term of « war » by the American administration, referring to the struggle against world terrorism, a judicious one, when […]
Military courts in the United States
On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued a military order pertaining to the « Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against […]
The Charter of collective security of the OCSE
During the Istanbul Conference held in November 1999, the OCSE adopted a new and important document : a European Security Charter. Aware that crises are […]
The Bush Administration : a Year of Defense Policy
The American President George W. Bush has chosen numerous specialists to help him devise his country’s defense policy, which consists essentially in reorganizing the American […]
