May, 2022

• 22 May

  The Russia-Ukraine Crisis Could Determine the Future of Sovereignty

  

  Beyond its immediate implications for European security, the current crisis at the Ukraine-Russia border highlights the enduring importance of state sovereignty as an ordering principle in world politics, notwithstanding frequent claims that globalization has rendered it obsolete. It also exposes the tendency of governments to invoke, dismiss or reinterpret this …

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• 22 May

  The U.N. Doesn’t Have to Be a Casualty of the War in Ukraine

  

  Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered an impassioned rebuke to the United Nations Security Council for its failure to prevent Russia’s invasion of his country. “Where is the security that the Security Council needs to guarantee?” he demanded. “It’s not there.” Rather than taking forceful action to arrest or …

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• 22 May

  Conflict Trends Update

  GEORGIA Breakaway territory South Ossetia’s de facto president Anatoly Bibilov announced last Friday a referendum scheduled for 17 July on whether the region — which Moscow recognised as an independent state in 2008 — should accede to the Russian Federation. Bibilov was defeated in second-round elections earlier this month by …

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• 21 May

  Concerning ‘China’s Master Plan to Destroy America’

  

  China has been unabashed about making its intentions known. Already in 1999, two colonels in China’s People’s Liberation Army, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiansui, wrote, “Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America.” In it, the authors “suggest the significance of alternatives to direct military confrontation, including international policy, economic …

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• 21 May

  La «sécurité indivisible», nouvel avatar du récit offensif chinois envers Taïwan

  

  Face à ce nouvel argumentaire diplomatique un peu vaseux, la nécessité d’une stratégie occidentale globale Selon la Chine, Taïwan demeure la 23e province chinoise. Mais en réalité, depuis 1945, l’île est de facto indépendante de la république populaire de Chine – qui n’y a jamais exercé aucun pouvoir politique, mais …

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• 21 May

  Guerre et paix — et puis guerre

  

  Une amie professeur de Lettres à Nice a été priée par le rectorat, un peu plus tôt dans l’année, de fournir un sujet sur le thème au programme cette année en terminale — spécialité « Humanités Littérature Philosophie » —, qui est opportunément (l’Inspection générale a parfois de ces intuitions) …

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• 21 May

  Élisabeth Borne ne fera pas d’ombre au Roi-Soleil

  

  En effet, comme Madame de Maintenon, elle a passé l’âge de batifoler… Le 26 avril, les Français ont fait le choix de reconduire Tarfuffe afin qu’il préside, cinq ans encore, à leur destinée ! Celui-ci, sur les notes du concerto pour hautbois de Haendel gratifia les heureux conviés à son …

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• 21 May

  LFI: La France islamo-gauchiste?

  

  La campagne clientéliste menée par Jean-Luc Mélenchon auprès des Français arabo-musulmans a porté ses fruits. Dans nombre de banlieues, il a enregistré des scores chavéziens. Ce vote communautaire marque aussi l’influence des islamistes sur toute une population. Le premier tour de la présidentielle a fait rêver jusqu’au bout Jean-Luc Mélenchon. …

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• 21 May

  Turkish foreign minister said planning to tour Temple Mount during Israel trip

  

  Turkey’s top envoy, Mevlut Cavusoglu, is set to visit Jerusalem next week in a diplomatic breakthrough, but his plan to go to holy site is causing tensions with Israel, report says Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is expected to visit Israel next week and plans to go to the flashpoint …

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• 21 May

  US sanctions network of Hezbollah businessman in Lebanon

  

  The Treasury Department designated Ahmad Jalal Reda Abdallah and several of his associates and companies based in Lebanon and Iraq. The Biden administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on an alleged financial facilitator for Hezbollah, a move aimed at exposing and disrupting the Lebanese militant group’s illicit sources of funding. The …

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