Reflectii

Giannis Kafkas had dreams of making it as a photographer until he was bashed in the back of the head. Fourteen years ago, Greece was in the throes of a sovereign debt crisis that was threatening to bring down the euro-zone. On May 11, 2011, Kafkas joined tens of thousands of his fellow Athenians in a mass demonstration against the crippling austerity measures imposed by Greece’s international creditors. As the crowd snaked past the parliament building, it was abruptly set upon by riot police. “There was no escape, they were beating everyone,” he recalls. “I’ve never seen such fury.”

La question de l’immigration et de l’intégration est un des sujets importants des convulsions politiques que traverse la France. La politique migratoire actuellement en vigueur en France est aujourd’hui remise en cause, non seulement dans sa mise en œuvre, mais aussi dans son principe même. Les tensions identitaires croissantes obligent à mener une analyse froide et non-partisane : que nous enseignent les dernières décennies sur l’abandon d’une politique d’assimilation forte, et quel avenir se dessine pour la France ?

This week’s summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh looks like nothing short of a triumph for the United States in the Middle East. U.S. President Donald Trump met with representatives of thirty countries, and the declaration signed there to end the war in Gaza stands in stark contrast with the Kremlin’s failed attempts to hold its own summit with Arab states in Moscow at around the same time.

Former UN monitor Heinz Jacob Schindler cautions that large-scale deportations may offer IS-KP new opportunities to grow

[ISLAMABAD] Multiple reports confirm a sharp surge in Afghans being forcibly expelled from Pakistan and Iran—a mass return that has alarmed diplomats and security officials.

Personal and economic context for Yugoslavia’s collapse

I vividly remember the summer day in 1991 when my father and I boarded a 3 a.m. bus from Prishtina to Belgrade, where we would catch our morning flight to JFK airport in New York City. A mix of excitement and anxiousness kept me from sleeping that night. The beige-colored bus, operated by the once renowned Tourist Kosova company, departed from the front of the Grand Hotel Prishtina, likely for the convenience of the rare foreign journalist or visitor who might have been staying there during those tumultuous years. Just weeks earlier, I had severely injured my ankle in a fall, so I limped from our apartment to the bus with my luggage. I bid my mother and my great aunt, who had graciously come out that morning to see us away, farewell, climbed onto the bus with my father, and we set off.

Le grand partenariat eurasiatique représente en effet la seule carte dont disposent Moscou et Pékin pour concilier leurs projets d’infrastructures dans la région.

Tandis que l’administration Trump joue la carte de la séduction face aux «swing states» en les attirant avec de nouveaux accords énergétiques – comme celui proposé à la Turquie pour l’achat de son GNL, devenu manifestement moins attrayant après le doublement de la connexion énergétique russo-chinoise – et dans les secteurs de la technologie nucléaire civile et de l’aviation, ou proposé au Kazakhstan et à l’Ouzbékistan, avec 12 milliards de dollars dans les secteurs aérien, ferroviaire et dans celui des matières premières, la Russie mise sur une stratégie globale et promeut le concept «Altaï, patrie des Turcs» ainsi que le projet «Grand Altaï» comme contrepoids à l’Organisation des États turciques (OTS). Par le biais de conférences, d’expéditions et d’initiatives soutenues par l’État, Moscou cherche à se positionner non comme un acteur marginal dans le monde turc, mais comme son centre historique et culturel, notamment après la médiation nécessaire atteinte avec Istanbul en Syrie après la chute d’Assad.

Since 2012, hundreds of millions of dollars from Kyrgyzstan — one of the poorest countries on earth — have poured into bank accounts in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East on behalf of a single family.

Much of that money ended up in an expansive real estate portfolio that stretches from the Persian Gulf to the shores of California.

The lesson is universal: the monsters created for expedience never stay loyal. They mutate, grow stronger, and eventually devour their masters.

If Pakistan, Nigeria, or any nation wishes to escape this cycle, leaders must abandon the illusion of clever deals with extremists. Real security lies not in proxy wars or militant allies but in building just societies, resilient institutions, and inclusive politics that deny extremists the grievances they exploit. Anything less is sowing seeds for future catastrophe.

I – L’instinct et la liberté

Je m’adresse à toi, Justin, à toi, Mamadou : nous partageons avec les bêtes les besoins premiers – manger, boire – et pourtant il existe entre nous une différence tragique et politique. Certaines créatures de la basse-cour – coqs, poules, porcs – ont appris la soumission ; on leur jette la pitance aux pieds et ils l’acceptent comme une évidence. D’autres, comme le lion, restent irréductiblement libres : aucun collier à leur cou, aucune humiliation consentie. Quand on refuse la servilité, même la faim prend une autre couleur. C’est cette fracture – entre ceux qui mangent agenouillés et ceux qui vivent debout – qu’il nous faut nommer si nous voulons penser la liberté autrement que comme un état importé.

Abstract

The evolving threat of terrorism and political violence in the United States cannot be understood without observing technological change, institutional memory, and societal resilience. Recent discussions underscore five urgent considerations: (1) sustaining lessons from two decades of counterterrorism, (2) preparing for AI and drone-enabled battlefields, (3) confronting the misuse of commercial technologies, (4) maximizing open-source intelligence collaboration, and (5) analyzing the connection between counternarcotics and counterterrorism. Across all five lies a central truth: adversaries exploit division, while unity across government, private sector, and civil society is America’s most credible form of deterrence.