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

Algeria: An Aggressive Restoration

On 29/06/2023

This article is the English version of Akram Belkaïd,
« Algérie : une restauration musclée ? », published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 87, Issue 2, 2022.

Photographie de Nasro Azaizia (Unsplash) représentant un homme portant sur ses épaules le drapeau de l'Algérie (moitié vert, moitié blanc, croissant de lune et étoile rouges au centre), pointant en direction d'un drapeau de l'Algérie flottant sur un porte-drapeau.

On December 12, 2019, Abdelmadjid Tebboune was elected president of the Algerian Republic after winning 58.13 percent of votes (4.9 million votes) in the first round. A former wali (similar to a prefect in France), a minister on more than one occasion, and even head of government for several months in 2017, Tebboune succeeded Abdelaziz Bouteflika. No longer supported by the army, by April 2019 Bouteflika had given up his attempt to win a fifth term due to the huge popular protests that had broken out at the beginning of the year. Although the election was spurned by a record number of voters (14.7 million voters—60.12 percent—failed to vote), it brought an end to the Algerian people’s irruption in the political arena and their persistent refusal to return to “normality.”

The European Union and the Western Balkans: Lost Illusions?

de Politique Etrangère

On 22/06/2023

dans PE in english

This article is the English version of Pierre Mirrel,
« Union européenne-Balkans occidentaux : les illusions perdues ? », published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 87, Issue 4, 2022.

Photographie de fond par Tetiana Shyshkina (Unsplash) représentant le drapeau de l'Union européenne (bleu, étoiles jaunes). Au premier plan, couverture du numéro 4/2022 du numéro de Politique étrangère.

“Undermined by years of mutual ignorance, deceit, and disrespect, the Balkans’ EU accession process has finally succumbed to both European and Balkan leaders’ populist, short-sighted policies.” This remark expresses the frustrations in the Balkans after Bulgaria again vetoed opening accession negotiations with Albania and Northern Macedonia on June 22, 2022, when the European Council was due to recognize the candidacies of Ukraine and Moldova the following day.

One Year of War in Ukraine: Where do the Russian People Stand?

de Politique Etrangère

On 15/06/2023

dans PE in english

This article is the English version of Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean,
« Un an de guerre en Ukraine : où en sont les Russes ? », published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 88, Issue 1, 2023.

“ We are at war and the country is plunged into total unconsciousness of events”: such was the assessment of the Russian writer Victor Erofeyev in the months following the invasion of Ukraine. Indeed, after the initial shock, the majority of Russians have continued to go about their lives as if it were in fact a “special military operation” with limited scope, like the intervention in Syria in 2015. Ukrainians’ suffering has left them largely indifferent, which has led to anger, and even hatred, on the part of the invaded nation toward the Russian people as a whole.

Kosovo, a Hindered State

de Politique Etrangère

On 18/05/2023

dans PE in english

This article is the English version of Florent Marciacq and Donika Emini, « Kosovo, l’État entravé », published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 87, Issue 4, 2022.

Photographie de Mrika Selimi (Unsplash) de la ville de Prizren au Kosovo, représentant à l'arrière-plan des montages recouvertes d'arbres feuillus verts, de maisons blanches en toits de tuile rouges. La mosquée Sinan Pacha, en pierres claires et avec un dôme argenté, se distingue parmi les maisons.

The issue of Kosovo’s contested statehood has kept Brussels busy for more than ten years now. Advancing on this front is more pressing than ever in the new geopolitical context forged by the Russian war in Ukraine. What is at stake is not only the resolution of a sensitive bilateral dispute that has become noxious for the whole region, but also the EU’s quest for strategic autonomy, which can only be achieved through greater convergence on such issues.