The Alpine Republic likes to think of itself as a model of liberalism. Yet, between the complaint against a French satirist and the government's silence in the face of European sanctions against Jacques Baud, the country is failing the test of defending freedom.
At a time of geopolitical turbulence, interventionism may be desirable, provided that political power is capable of reversing course afterwards. However, nothing is less certain for a country like France, which is already over-indebted.
In June 2023, the troops of the Wagner militia led by Yevgeny Prigozhin went into open rebellion. From this crisis of the security apparatus in the midst of the war with Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces came out the big winners.
Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, interest in military issues has grown, including in Switzerland. This is an opportunity to take a closer look at the history of the Swiss army and the way it has reconciled military objectives with democratic imperatives. A book invites us to do so.
Faced with repeated scandals over human rights violations, Saudi Arabia is hoping to restore its image by investing heavily in sport.
2014-2023, the decade of all dangers. All the truths that were thought to have been anchored in people's minds with the end of the Cold War have exploded. Nothing is true anymore, no value seems to serve as a compass... A time to rethink the future?
Is Western hegemony wavering? The independence of Brazil, India and Indonesia from the war in Ukraine suggests so. But is such criticism of the West justified? A complex debate, revealing some of the contradictions of the global South.
In search of international recognition for several years, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, freshly re-elected head of the Republic of Turkey, is leading his country down the path of an ambiguous foreign policy.
Inherited from the era of great power struggles in the 19th century, neutrality helped Switzerland through the wars of the following century. Since then, however, the country has failed to establish a new doctrinaire basis for its foreign policy.
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