Section: Policy
Just peace or just peace?

Just peace or just peace?

Contemporary conflicts are increasingly characterized by a lack of rules. Every day, armed groups and states alike flout international law. But one aspect is rarely mentioned, given the omnipresence of violence: just peace.

Irreconcilable lefts

A few news items illustrate a little-discussed yet interesting and fundamental political reality: the presence in the contemporary ideological landscape of various irreconcilable lefts. Here are three examples.
The melancholy of the «true left»

The melancholy of the «true left»

Faced with the failures of the twentieth century, the left has shifted ground. More concerned with the fate of minorities than workers, it disappointed. But from the ashes of that disappointment comes a strange feeling: melancholy. This is the key to the return of the «true left».