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

Europe: Power and Finance

On 10/08/2023

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.”

Armenia-Azerbaijan: Peace at an Impasse?

de Politique Etrangère

On 27/07/2023

dans PE in english

This article is the English version of Gaïdz Minassian,
« Arménie-Azerbaïdjan : la paix dans l’impasse ? », published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 88, Issue 1, 2023.

Photographie d'arrière-plan par Антон Дмитриев représentant des barbelés, lumière orange de fin de journée. Au premier plan, couverture du numéro 1/2023 de Politique étrangère.

Despite the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan ending on November 9, 2020, with Baku achieving military victory after forty-four days of exceptionally ferocious fighting, tensions have not reduced since the ceasefire was signed. On the contrary, the repercussions of Russia’s war in Ukraine have taken the strain up a notch. Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) has been gripped by a dialectic of peace and war that has hindered the development of all three states in both economic and sovereignty terms, to the point that they are now truly “wounded soldiers” of the post-Soviet era.

What Progress has been Made with the Paris Agreement?

de Politique Etrangère

On 06/07/2023

dans PE in english

This article is the English version of Christian de Perthuis,
« Où en est l’Accord de Paris sur le climat ? », published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 87, Issue 1, 2022.

Photographie de fond par Tyler Casey (Unsplash), éoliennes dans des champs. Au premier plan, couverture du numéro 1/2023 de Politique étrangère « Climat : quelle marche à suivre ? »

Each and every COP (Conference of the Parties) is heralded as “the last chance,” and 2021’s COP26 in Glasgow was no exception. But as the conference doors swung shut for another year, the media denounced it as a failure: it seemed as if the impressive ensemble of heads of state who had traveled to Scotland to attend the event had, once again, missed the opportunity to save the planet. But can 2022’s COP manage to achieve what 2021’s failed to? There’s one thing we can be sure of: COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh will once again be “the last chance.”