By Michel VATÉ, Emeritus professor at Lyon University (IEP) and Research Fellow at the Thomas More Institute and Luc GUYAU, Independent Chairman of the Council of FAO. Article published in La Tribune, on November 4th, 2011. Available in French.

Le Sommet du G20 qui va s'ouvrir à Cannes a du pain sur la planche. D'abord pour traiter des pressantes questions financières mondiales et apporter son soutien au plan de sauvetage de l'euro ; mais aussi pour tenir les promesses faites en 2008 aux pays pauvres. Il ne faudrait pas qu'une urgence en chasse une autre. S'attaquer enfin, et avec un nouveau regard, aux défis du développement et de la pauvreté, c'est aussi contribuer à l'ordre du monde.

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Ten years ago, Bin Laden and Al-Qaida launched violent terrorist attacks against the New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Certainly, some self-styled situationists will be swift to explain that nothing new happened in the Society of the Spectacle. However, those events initiated a new cycle of wars and had a strong influence on our time. We can observe other lines of war in our horizon but the West has not finished with the Islamist terror. The most important will be played in the long term. Available in French.

By Jean-Sylvestre MONGRENIER, Associate Fellow at the Thomas More Institute, Fellow at the Institut Français de Géopolitique (Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis University).

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Located on the isthmus between the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf, Syria is a geopolitical pivot at the intersection of complex power games. Despite the repression led by Bachar Al-Assad, the current uprising is threatening the stability of that heterogeneous country. The hypothetical collapse of the Ba’athist regime has already an impact on Iran’s strategy and Turkey’s ambitions. Both are non-Arab powers engaged in a discreet but deep rivalry. The West cannot turn a blind-eye and ignore this high geopolitical issue. By Jean-Sylvestre MONGRENIER, Associate Fellow at the Thomas More Institute, Fellow at the Institut Français de Géopolitique (Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis University). Available in French.

By Jean-Sylvestre MONGRENIER, Associate Fellow at the Thomas More Institute, Fellow at the Institut Français de Géopolitique (Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis University).

During the national day of Persian Gulf, on 30 April 2011, le chief of staff of Iranian armies, General Hassan Firouzabadi, denounced the “Arabian dictatorial front” against Iran, saying that “Persian Gulf has always belonged, belongs and will belong to Persia”. This claim endangers Strait of Hormuz and its security. Indeed, the third party of World oil is flowing through that strait towards Europe, North American and, moreover, South and East Asia. In front of Iran, the sultanate of Oman is the other State in charge of this World bottleneck. This (...)