International

“War preparation”

In Ghedi preparing the new base for the F-35

by Manlio Dinucci

(15 March 2021) The United States continues to modernise its nuclear strike force, also in Europe. In violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty it has signed, Italy is housing more and more of these weapons.

“War preparations”

The US bomb is ready: soon also in the EU

by Manlio Dinucci*

(15 March 2021) The United States has developed a new type of nuclear bomb, much smaller and more manageable. It will mass-produce and store them in the European Union, to "guarantee its security".

Joe Biden – a democratic turn?

by Roland Hureaux*

(31 December 2020)  It takes rare thoughtlessness to claim – as the majority of the European and American press, as well as Biden's supporters in the US presidential election, do – that Trump's defeat will save democracy.

US risks confrontation with Russia

by M. K. Bhadrakumar*

The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov remarked last week that Moscow expects nothing good in relations with a “deeply hostile” US under the incoming administration of Joe Biden. He further said in an interview with the Interfax published Thursday December 24, “We are heading from bad to worse. The next US president has been left with a bad legacy and it will take a long time for him to sort this out.”

How a virus could change the world

Chronicle of an announced crisis

by Robert Seidel

(30. January 2021)  In his latest book, Paul Schreyer* attempts to put the Covid-19 crisis in a political context and thus make it more tangible. In doing so, he goes back a long way in the history of US military "biosecurity".

Book Review

Kishore Mahbubani: Has China won?

by Pascal Boniface, geopolitologist, Director of The French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs IRIS

Kishore Mahbubani is Singaporean. But unlike the vast majority of his compatriots, he is not of Chinese origin. He is Sindhi Hindu, a Hindu population originally from Pakistan. In 1947, his parents fled the persecutions that accompanied the partition between India and Pakistan to take refuge in Singapore, where he was born in 1948. He was a diplomat, notably at the United Nations. He is now a professor at the University. He is one of the most influential commentators on international life.