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Zelensky vacille : démissions en masse dans son gouvernement

Le régime de Zelensky vacille, démissions en masse dans son gouvernement dont celle choc du ministre ukrainien des Affaires étrangères : Kuleba. Zelensky doit changer la moitié du gouvernement. Nuit d’incendie : attaques russes sur Kiev et Lviv La nuit dernière a été une autre nuit de feu pour l’Ukraine. …

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Filling the Void Left by Great-Power Retrenchment: Russia, Central Asia, and the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending in August 2021, created favorable conditions for Russia to reassert itself as a regional hegemon in broader Central Asia. Historically, as great powers retrench from a territory, the resulting void can be filled either by rival powers or by friendly successor states responsive to …

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How Syria Broke Turkey

In July, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he would be open to hosting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a visit to Turkey. Normalization will not come easily or soon, but Erdoğan’s push for rapprochement is in itself remarkable. Given the intensity of Turkey’s commitment a decade ago to overthrowing …

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From the Ukraine Conflict to a Secure Europe

Introduction Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 put an end to European security as a cooperative project. That project was grounded in the so-called Helsinki Decalogue, a declaration within the 1975 Helsinki Final Act that laid out agreed principles of conduct between the West and the Soviet bloc.1 …

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