Ramzan Kadyrov requested that Russian President Vladimir Putin grant him leave from his position as the leader of the Chechen Republic in Russia. Kadyrov has been the leader of the Chechen Republic since 2007 and has been the dominant power there since the death of his father, Akhmed, the previous …

Enlargement and geopolitics are polar opposites. Geopolitics is fast and unstoppable. Enlargement is slow and eminently stoppable. Geopolitics is disruptive, divisive, and often follows a zero-sum logic. Enlargement is transformative, unifying, and the ultimate positive-sum game. Previous EU enlargements, of course, also had a geopolitical dimension. They were first about …

On parle de fondamentalisme idéologique lorsque l’idéologie convainc le public que la politique est une lutte entre le bien et le mal. Les gens n’évaluent plus les États en fonction de ce qu’ils font dans le système international, mais en fonction des identités politiques qui leur sont attribuées. Kenneth Waltz, …