New Note 3 | On 29 April, the Commission in charge of the “Livre blanc de défense et de sécurité nationale”  ( White Paper on defence and national security) presented to the President the results of his work. The Paper is succinct and has a narrow perspective. This document announces another cuts in France’s military ambitions, thus jeopardizing its political status, its effectives power and its contribution to Europe | By Jean-Sylvestre MONGRENIER, Research Fellow at the Thomas More Institute | Available in French

| Un faible apport à la réflexion stratégique

C’est avec retard que la commission en charge du nouveau Livre blanc de défense et de sécurité nationale a présenté les résultats de ses (...)

Nearly three months after the beginning of the operation « Serval » in Mali, a country whose population is at 90% Muslim, the Thomas More Institute is dealing with a little-discussed issue: the perception of the French intervention within the Arab and Islamic world and its consequences in the political positions of States and many non-governmental organizations. We conducted a strategic watch based on the collection of information from a hundred of sources that enabled us to categorize the diverse and often opposed protagonists and political positions. It also resulted in a dynamic reading grid summarizing the evolution of those positions over time, as the operation deployed on the ground and delivered results. Noticeably, the (...)

NATO is much more than a mere defensive alliance.  The Alliance has been shaped like a security community and is the geopolitical expression of the West. NATO must be thought of in terms of global balance of power, and it has to deal with spaces and problematics on a world scale | Text of the speech of Jean-Sylvestre MONGRENIER, Research Fellow at the Thomas More Institute | 5th Festival “Géopolitique & Géoéconomie” | Grenoble (France), April 7, 2013 | Available in French

L’Organisation du traité de l’Atlantique Nord (OTAN) n’est pas une alliance de type traditionnel mais une alliance wilsonienne dont la légitimité repose aussi sur les principes de la sécurité collective. Dans l’après-Guerre froide, la « (...)

There is a reality that the on going intervention in Mali has reactivated the salience : these of the terrorist threat in France. This threat is developing on long term but can also know accelerating phenomenon on short term. In other words, if islamisation and radicalisation phenomena are relevant in France for many years, it is evident that the security situation in Sahel, the military intervention and more broadly the “Arabs uprisings” are likely to increase the threat in France. While the organisational framework of terrorist groups is in constant evolution, many issues accelerate this mutation. Decoding | By Florentin DEWASNES, Research Assistant at the Thomas More Institute | Available in French

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Text of the speech of Antonin TISSERON, Research Fellow at the Thomas More Institute, to the seminar "France, USA | Different perspectives of a new Arab world" organized by IFRI, in partnership with New York University Paris, March 15, 2013 in Paris | Available in French

À la suite de la chute du régime libyen de Kadhafi, le septentrion malien s’est embrasé avec la reprise de la rébellion par le Mouvement National de libération de l’Azawad (MNLA) en janvier 2012, dont le chef d’état-major est d’ailleurs alors un revenu de Libye, puis son éviction des principales villes du Nord-Mali par des groupes jihadistes. La menace représentée par les groupes jihadistes pour le sud du Mali et la difficile mobilisation des (...)