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Une sélection d’articles traduits en anglais, et en accès libre

Thinking European toward Russia

On 24/08/2023

This article is the English version of Roman Kuźniar,
« Sur la Russie : penser européen », published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 85, Issue 1, 2020.

Photographie d'arrière-plan par Maximalfocus (Unsplash) représentant le drapeau de l'Union européenne projeté sur un bâtiment ainsi que le drapeau flottant. Au premier plan, couverture du PE 1/2020.

Physicists tend to say that their discipline is a burial ground of misconceived theories. It is quite similar with European countries’ attitude towards Russia. There have been many ideas and good intentions, but most failed. This also pertains to Polish conceptions, of which there have been many. Their failure resulted from the fact that they would usually be situated in the sphere between illusion and wishful thinking. Illusion refers to the assessment of the nature of Russia’s politics, whereas wishful thinking refers to that which could be achieved in politics towards Russia if we live up to the country’s expectations. This was the case for the first two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the reappearance of Russia on the European geopolitical scene.

Breaking the Boko Haram-Nigerian Military Stalemate: Can Supercamps Sustain the Status Quo?

de Politique Etrangère

On 17/08/2023

dans PE in english

This article is the English version of Jacob Zenn,
« L’armée nigérianne et Boko Haram : les « supercamps » peuvent-ils tenir le statu quo ? », published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 86, Issue 1, 2021.

Photographie d'arrière-plan par Emmanuel Ikwuegbu (Unsplash) d'un homme tenant le drapeau Nigeria (deux bandes vertes, une blanche au centre). Au premier plan, couverture de PE 1/2021.

Although Boko Haram originated in 1994 and Nigeria’s first confrontations with the group occurred in 2003, Nigeria’s war against Boko Haram began only in 2010. Although military solutions are not imminent, since mid-2019 Nigeria’s army and Boko Haram’s two main factions, Islamic State-loyal Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) and non-aligned Jamaat Ahlussunnah lid-Dawa wal-Jihad (JASDJ), have reached a military stalemate. This article examines the stalemate in Nigeria’s Borno State and whether it can sustain the current status quo in Borno.

Europe: Power and Finance

de Politique Etrangère

On 10/08/2023

dans PE in english

This article is the English version of Sylvie Goulard,
« L’Europe, la puissance et la finance », published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 86, Issue 2, 2021.

Photographie d'arrière-plan par Mauro Sbicego (Unsplash) représentant la sculpture du symbole de l'euro en dehors de la Banque centrale européenne de Francfort. Au premier plan, couverture de PE 2/2021.

The world is rapidly changing, and Europe is striving to find its place. In the debates over European sovereignty, the issues frequently revolve around diplomacy, defence and occasionally industrial policy, but only rarely finance. The most noteworthy advance in European construction was undoubtedly the single currency, but the European Union (EU) could make much better use of its strengths in the financial area. It took the global financial crisis for common regulatory rules governing finance to be adopted and for their control to be entrusted to European supervisory authorities. Even today, the domestic financial services market remains fragmented and the euro’s geopolitical role unfulfilled. Yet the strategic nature of the financial stakes is evidenced by several factors.

Twenty Years in, is it Time to Draw a Line Under the War on Terror?

de Politique Etrangère

On 03/08/2023

dans PE in english

This article is the English version of Élie Tenenbaum,
« Vers la fin de vingt ans de guerre contre le terrorisme ? », published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 86, Issue 3, 2021.

Photographie d'arrière-plan par Lucas Hoang (Unsplash) représentant un avion de la US Air Force. Au premier plan, couverture de PE 3/2021.

“Our objective was clear. The cause was just.” These were the words chosen by President Joe Biden on April 14, 2021, to describe the war unleashed twenty years earlier by one of his predecessors, George W. Bush, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Yet, despite the clarity of the objective and the justice of the cause, the newly inaugurated president was here to announce a galling withdrawal, one that looked suspiciously like defeat: “I’m now the fourth United States President to preside over American troop presence in Afghanistan […]. I will not pass this responsibility on to a fifth. […] It’s time to end America’s longest war.”