Benoît Bréville
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In search of a new geopolitics (opens the original)
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In 1997 George F Kennan warned that NATO expansion would be ‘the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era’. So the architect of the West’s cold war strategy of containing the Soviet Union was angered and dismayed when the US Senate approved the accession of three former Eastern bloc states – Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic – the following year. Now, he predicted, ‘the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies.’ By 1998 Ken
What France’s far right has learned from Israel’s apartheid system (opens the original)
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Amid all the speculation on the left about the future of French politics, one prediction has crowded out all others for the past two decades: we’re heading towards fascism. In the late 2000s, Nicolas Sarkozy’s cult of the police, his law-and-order obsession and his targeting of young people from immigrant backgrounds – ‘scum’ to be cleaned up ‘with a Kärcher’, as he famously said – prompted widespread criticism. Then, around 2015-16, Islamist terrorist attacks, panic over ‘radicalised youth’ and
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