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Ramses 2026. A New Chessboard

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A world chessboard chopped up by the vertigo of power...

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The world is haunted by the spectre of fragmentation, after decades of openness and unification under the banner of technical progress and accelerating trade. We would, therefore, be moving from a globalized space to a fragmented one, crumbling into national egoisms and egoistic interests with no concern for others, thereby erasing the hope of governance that echoes the common interests of a united humanity.

Three issues for 2026

  • Who Rules the World? "Happy globalization" is no more: is the fragmented world still governable? Does the now fractured multilateralism merely reflect the anarchy of the race for power?
  • Europe: Its Strategic Margins. Europe is surrounded by fury and noise: to the East, to the North, around the Black Sea, to the South, and to the Atlantic West, where American solidarity seems to be called into question every day.
  • Africa, the Impeded Giant. Africa is always close and diverse, with economic, social and demographic dynamics that are conflict-ridden and fragmented, and where new generations are seeking new identities.

Ramses 2026 analyzes this brutal, violent fragmentation of the world in 3 opening chapters: Who Rules the World?; Europe: Its Strategic Margins; Africa, the Impeded Giant. And through a global panorama of current and future crises: Russia, the Middle East, the Americas, European defense, Taiwan, the international monetary system, climate change, Sino-American technological rivalry...

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978-2-10-022260-1

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Thierry DE MONTBRIAL

Thierry de MONTBRIAL

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Founder and Executive Chairman of Ifri - Member of the Institut de France (Académie des Sciences morales et politiques)

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Dominique DAVID

Dominique DAVID

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Chair of the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe (ÖFZ), Advisor to the Executive Chairman, Editor-in-chief of Politique étrangère and co-Director of Ramses

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