Recent Posts

The War in Ukraine Is About Europe’s Future

Europe needs to rapidly increase its military support for Ukraine to ensure victory for Kyiv. A failure to do so would threaten the EU’s security and credibility—and embolden Moscow. The Europeans cannot afford to let the war in Ukraine drag on. The longer it continues, the more casualties and destruction …

Read More »

Europe’s Geoeconomic Revolution

How the EU Learned to Wield Its Real Power The European Union once preached a tripartite gospel: monetary orthodoxy, fiscal austerity, and free-flowing trade and investment, with multilateral institutions watching and guiding from above. That was before its faith in the survival of the liberal economic order was shaken by …

Read More »

UN Security Council Reform: What the World Thinks

Cutting the Gordian Knot: Global Perspectives on UN Security Council Reform The United Nations (UN) Security Council’s failure to act on Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has reignited long-smoldering global demands to overhaul the world’s premier body for international peace and security. U.S. President Joe Biden fanned these embers in …

Read More »

Escaping Attrition: Ukraine Rolls the Dice

It has been a while since I published anything long-form commenting on the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, and I confess that writing this article gave me a modicum of trouble. Ukraine’s much anticipated grand summer counteroffensive has now been underway for about eighty days with little to show for it. The …

Read More »

Économie mondiale : 2024, année de toutes les reconfigurations ?

Le Centre d’études prospectives et d’informations internationales (CEPII) livre son décryptage annuel des grandes tendances à venir dans son ouvrage collectif « L’économie mondiale 2024 » publié aux Éditions La Découverte (collection Repères), à paraître le 7 septembre. Tour d’horizon des grandes questions de l’année à venir avec Isabelle Bensidoun …

Read More »

BRICS : Un nouveau monde étonnant

L’élargissement de la zone des BRICS a laissé de nombreux analystes perplexes. Et a plongé les hommes politiques et les opérateurs économiques dans une sorte d’état de confusion. La démonstration – s’il en était besoin – du vieil adage selon lequel les dieux aveuglent ceux qu’ils veulent perdre. Car ce …

Read More »