With its hostile territory, Switzerland had to find another recipe for success. So it developed a counter-model. In his essay L'identité suisse au défi, former diplomat Paul Widmer looks at the ingredients of Swiss success, the better to perpetuate it.
The militia system is criticized far and wide. However, its critics miss its own logic, which, along with federalism and direct democracy, contributes to the institutional construction of Switzerland, and thus to the country's identity.
Militia system, productivity, neutrality... In his essay «La Suisse n'existe plus» (Switzerland no longer exists), Nicolas Jutzet, project manager at the Institut libéral, shows that the idea we have of this democratic and economic model no longer really reflects reality.
Federalists and anti-federalists clashed violently during the renewal of the American constitution in the second half of the 18th century. Like no other in history, this divide sheds light on the debate between the center and the periphery. It's hard not to see it as a reflection of contemporary issues.
DOSSIER «VOUS AVEZ DIT EUROPE?», Antoine-Frédéric Bernhard | C’est une figure intellectuelle majeure du XXe siècle, un Suisse de surcroît, dont on entend très peu parler. La paresse y est sans doute pour beaucoup, puisque toute l’œuvre de Denis de Rougemont est accessible gratuitement sur internet depuis 2020, grâce au travail de plusieurs chercheurs de l’Université de Genève. Cet écrivain foisonnant a consacré une grande partie de son œuvre à l’Europe qu’il voyait écrasée entre les deux superpuissances américaine et soviétique. Dans sa Lettre ouverte aux européens de 1970 – un plaidoyer pour l’identité culturelle européenne – l’écrivain genevois défend l’idée d’un fédéralisme intégral, appuyé sur un régionalisme opposé à toute forme de nationalisme moderne. Sa réflexion sur l’unité de l’Europe s’avère plus pertinente que jamais. Bref tour d’horizon.
L’affaire serait entendue: si la Suisse ne comptait pas dans son système politique l’outil du fédéralisme, la gestion du Covid...
Considered by some as the «China of Africa» in the 2000s and 2010s, Ethiopia looked set to enjoy a new prosperity as it opened up to the world, a far cry from the famines and wars of the past century. How could such promises have been lost, and Ethiopia plunged into civil war?
Over the next few decades, Europe will undeniably face numerous challenges at technological, political, institutional, military, identity, cultural, religious, social and environmental levels. But what role should it play?
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