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A short history of Venezuela to understand the present

By Hélène Lavoyer · May 28, 2018

Les lundis de l'actualité - Hélène Lavoyer Here's a piece of news you'll certainly have heard about this week: Nicolás Maduro, successor...

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Koreas: hope after loathing

By Hélène Lavoyer · April 30, 2018

News Mondays – Hélène Lavoyer The whole world held its breath last Friday. Koreans from both countries...

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Vladimir Putin: Old World authoritarian or peerless strategist?

By Diego Taboada · March 12, 2018

Current Affairs Mondays - Diego Taboada Blamed by most Western countries for major contemporary geopolitical upheavals (Ukraine, Syria),...

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China, the world's leading power

By Clément Guntern · September 22, 2017

Over the past decade, China's uninterrupted growth has brought the country to the forefront of the international stage. So much so, in fact, that China has partially overtaken the United States. Will this shift in power have consequences for the West?

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Has Russia once again become a world power?

By Clément Guntern · 29 April 2017

Over the past decade, a player that many countries had forgotten since the fall of the Soviet Empire has reemerged on the international stage: Russia. Since the early 1990s, American hegemony has made people forget that before the “hyperpower,” there were two superpowers. There has been talk of Russia’s return to the world stage through its interventions abroad, and at times its activity on the international scene has been praised in contrast to the West’s inaction. But is this really a genuine resurgence of Russia on the world stage, or is it merely a facade—loud but not very constructive?