Neutrality has never been subject to a corseted definition. Its entire history demonstrates this. It depends on the goodwill of the other powers, and only makes sense if it is understood in the context of the moment.
Published six years apart, Tom Clancy's anticipation novel «Red Storm» and Francis Fukuyama's essay «The End of History and the Last Man» offer a striking contrast: the fear of a world war is followed by euphoria at the victory of democracies. In his own way, Fukuyama also tells the story of an unfulfilled future.
Professor of History at the University of Geneva, Irène Hermann specializes in Swiss neutrality. Although neutrality is under particular scrutiny today, it has never been unambiguous for the historian, who demystifies it in the light of the past. Interview.
While wokism is evident in academic and artistic circles, it is also permeable to the world of politics. In the front line: the European institutions. We take the temperature.
Few people anticipated the outbreak of war in the Ukraine, partly because it has characteristics that evoke a war that should have happened forty years ago. The novel «Tempête rouge» (Red Storm), published in 1986, proved to be just such a visionary work.
After two days of extraordinary session, Parliament has issued a symbolic rejection of the Federal Council's rescue plan for Crédit Suisse. This decision has no direct impact, but it does reveal certain issues, as pointed out by the press on Thursday.
Six environmental activists blocked the freeway in the canton of Uri on Good Friday. Altercations, traffic jams and police intervention - this is «non-violent» mobilization, when so many legal and effective tools exist, particularly in Switzerland.
Ecrivain et politicien genevois bien connu, Jean Romain fut longtemps professeur, de philosophie notamment. Auteur en 2001 d’une «Lettre ouverte à ceux qui croient encore en l’école», il nous livre aujourd’hui sa vision d’une institution qu’il connaît bien.
L’école cristallise beaucoup de débats. Vincent Peillon, ministre de l’Education nationale de 2012 à 2014 sous la présidence de François Hollande, détaille sa vision de cette institution importante de la République – vision qui a fait l’objet de vives critiques.
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