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La globalisation rend obsolète un État centralisateur et dominateur, qui a été autrefois relativement efficace en France (Louis XIV, Napoléon). Or dans le monde horizontal, un État qui s’obstine à garder la verticale du pouvoir, rate le rendez-vous avec son temps. Il a tendance à se rigidifier. Il devient lourd, lent, obèse, aboulique, inopérant.
... See moreAlexandre Melnik • Reconnecter la France au monde: Globalisation, mode d'emploi (French Edition)
Wallace Stegner’s Crossing to Safety,
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
For them home was never a building, but rather a carefully curated territory that, because of its lack of farms, fields and fences, went unrecognised by Europeans.
Carolyn Steel • Sitopia
Less but better.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
“less but better.”
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Je répète : au XXIe siècle, l’identité n’est plus une fatalité, mais un choix.
Alexandre Melnik • Reconnecter la France au monde: Globalisation, mode d'emploi (French Edition)
Amsterdam participated in this, but only with one ship: “the peace cog of Amsterdam
Geert Mak • Amsterdam: A brief life of the city
With the Ottoman Empire reigning in the newly named Istanbul, the ancient silk routes and sea routes to Asia were at risk.