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Energy challenges represent one of the most important security paradigms in the Asia Pacific region where you have a mixture of growing energy dependency, fuelled by high economic growth, the emergence of new major players like China and India, and a quasi-complete absence of regional...

Apparue aux États Unis dans l'euphorie de l'éclatante victoire aéroterrestre de la première guerre du Golfe en 1991, l'idée de concevoir les opérations à partir des effets que l'on souhaite obtenir sur le terrain et l'ennemi reprend une notion qui n'a rien de révolutionnaire. Il ne s...

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Constellations of observation satellites resemble the 'Panopticon' system imagined by British philosopher Jeremy Bentham in his 18th century project for an ideal jailhouse - a system that Michel Foucault analyzed in Discipline and Punish (1975). Just as the warden in the central tower watches...

AbstractAt the time of the second Intifada, the rise of tensions in France, characterised for instance by an increase of anti-Semitic acts, has led some commentators to refer to the ‘import' of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Although this expression is disputable, since the level of...

The movement of proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs), since the creation of the WTO, stands out from previous movements due to its dynamism, the intertwining of agreements (bilateral, regional and multilateral), the ambition displayed in these agreements, and...

This is the introduction to a special issue of Politique étrangère on Space as "a new field of strategic thinking". Authors from America, Russia, Brussels and France explore recent evolutions in military choices and in the governance of space.

A new military competition is born in space. All the great powers, and especially China, know that in this field lie the force and the weakness of the United States: hence Beijing's attempt—symbolized by the test in January 2007—to develop anti-satellite weapons. In such a context,...

Thanks to the renewed funding capacities of the federal budget, Russian space is back on tracks. Russia had very largely lost its eminent positions in space technologies in the 1990's. However, the current restructuring strategy seems incomplete: there is no true privatization or opening to...

European space policies and programmes develop in institutions (the European Union, the European Space Agency, national agencies) that operate with different goals and modalities. The recent experience of the Galileo and GMES programmes seems to argue in favor of a more exigent organisation,...