Tag: Encel
Joe Biden: a flawless diplomatic performance, by Frédéric Encel
It has been almost three years since Joe Biden exercised his presidential authority. In terms of foreign affairs, not much has been spared: an unprecedented war on European soil involving…
What is Hamas called? By Frédéric Encel – L’Express
The enemy of the peace process From the outset, Hamas was violently hostile to the Oslo process. From 1993 to 1996, the Israeli government was on the left – with…
The “Global South”, a lazy concept, by Frédéric Encel
After the “clash of civilizations” and another inane “end of history”, here is a new concept supposed to explain contemporary geopolitics: the “Global South”, which would compete with a West…
The great geopolitical solitude of Armenia, by Frédéric Encel
Rare are the peoples to have suffered so much, rare are the States to suffer from so many weaknesses and structural fragility. In 1915, shortly after the great massacres of…
In Iran, the all-out repression of a beleaguered regime, by Frédéric Encel
For several months, the Islamic Republic of Iran has intensified its repression not only of women freeing themselves from the chador (and the strict ban on singing and dancing) and…
Frédéric Encel: “The women of Iran must know that they are supported abroad”
Doctor in geopolitics and lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, columnist at L’Express, Frédéric Encel brings together many personalities this March 31 in Paris to discuss the fate of women in…
France – Israel: the convergence of struggles, by Frédéric Encel
The relatively warm nature of the recent reception of Benjamin Netanyahu by Emmanuel Macron will have surprised only those who consider, wrongly, that interpersonal relations take precedence in geopolitics over…
China, an overrated superpower? By Frederic Encel
Over the past two decades, how many headlines, press articles and books have presented the People’s Republic of China to us as the new first world power to come, or…
War in Ukraine: nothing new under the March sun, by Frédéric Encel
By dint of lazily pointing out “upheavals”, “crossroads”, “new pages” and other “nothing will be like before”, we come to tarnish the authentic changes and to mislead on the nature…
Threat of nuclear war? Calm down! By Frederic Encel
To fear a war is not to fear a nuclear war. In the first case, we anticipate the certainty of human losses and suffering, social and material destruction, territorial modifications…