Sublime

Europe, as noted earlier, has in a short span of time gone from being the most predictable and stable region—one where history seemed to have truly ended (as suggested in an influential essay published in 1989 by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama)—to something dramatically different. Democracy, prosperity, and peace all seemed firml

Ce chapitre s’intéresse à un épisode particulier et peu connu, celui du rôle joué par les intellectuels néolibéraux pour faire échouer l’Organisation internationale du commerce, l’institution qui devait compléter le système de Bretton Woods, ainsi que dans la rédaction des premiers projets, après la guerre, d’une loi internationale sur les investis

If every country depended upon foreign suppliers and customers, the web of mutual dependence would be too strong to break.

The U.S. geopolitical leadership has shown two faces to the world. One was the U.S. interest in building law-based multilateral institutions, including the global institutions of the UN system and regional institutions such as the European Community (and later European Union), of which the United States was a champion from the start. The other was

China has targeted EU countries and other U.S. allies such as Israel for control of ports. And many of these ports under Chinese control, such as Antwerp, Trieste, Marseille, and Haifa, are located near clusters of scientific and industrial research facilities. By 2020, according to China’s Ministry of Transport, fifty-two ports in thirty-four coun