Politique étrangère
The ASEAN Economic Community’s Original Integration Model
When it was created 50 years ago, ASEAN's (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) economic ambitions were rather modest. However, up until 1992 it progressively integrated the economies of its member states.
The ASEAN Security Community: Progress and Impediments
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) strives to deal with security problems in an inclusive and flexible way. In 2003 it established a Security Community which has since expanded through several institutions and partnerships.
What Forecast for Crimea?
Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, the peninsula’s demographics have changed. Thousands have left and new arrivals – Ukrainians fleeing conflict in the east of their country and Russians – have moved in.
Brexit: a Certain Idea of Europe
The reasons for the result of the UK’s June 2016 referendum reveal nothing we didn’t already know. They have to do with the development of British society and political debates particular to the UK.
Democratic Deconstructions
Today’s democratic governments appear less legitimate and their longevity less assured than ever.
With Trump, Time to Reinvent the European Trade Policy
The new American administration’s protectionist tendencies need to be taken seriously.
Living with Russia
Russia’s power comes, in part, from the West’s errors and illusions in the wake of the Cold War.
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