For readers of Putin's People by Catherine Belton comes the stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship led by Vladimir Putin - and how the world is now paying the price.



'Brave, trenchant and convincing' Sunday Times



'Ferocious and unforgiving' Financial Times



The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB - to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years - as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him - Putin has grown not only into a dictator but an international threat. With his vast resources and nuclear arsenal, Putin is at the centre of a worldwide assault on political liberty and the modern world order.



For Garry Kasparov, none of this is news. He has been a vocal critic of Putin for over a decade, even leading the pro-democracy opposition to him in the farcical 2008 presidential election. Yet years of seeing his Cassandra-like prophecies about Putin's intentions fulfilled have left Kasparov with a darker truth: Putin's Russia, like ISIS or Al Qaeda, defines itself in opposition to the free countries of the world.



As Putin has grown ever more powerful, the threat he poses has grown from local to regional and finally to global. In this urgent book, Kasparov shows that the collapse of the Soviet Union was not an endpoint - only a change of seasons, as the Cold War melted into a new spring. But now, after years of complacency and poor judgement, winter is once again upon us.



Argued with the force of Kasparov's world-class intelligence, conviction and hopes for his home country, Winter Is Coming reveals Putin for what he is: an existential danger hiding in plain sight. Lire la suite Fermer

Un coffret de 50 cartes recto-verso portant les drapeaux de tous les pays indépendants du monde ainsi que des infos sur chacun d'entre eux.
Les 50 cartes recto-verso représentent les drapeaux de tous les pays indépendants du monde. Chaque drapeau est accompagné de données sur le pays (capitale, monnaie, etc.). Des encadrés contiennent des renseignements complémentaires sur les couleurs, les traditions et les symboles liés aux drapeaux. Pour encore plus d'infos sur les drapeaux, des liens Internet sont fournis.

The last two hundred years have seen the greatest explosion of progress and wealth in the history of mankind. But the age of oil, that fuelled this expansion, is coming rapidly to an end. The depletion of fossil fuels is about to change radically life as we know it, and do so much sooner than we think.

Sobre los escombros de Alepo - el nuevo simbolo trágico de la barbarie imperialista que puntualmente se acompaña con la cinica lógica de reparto entre la potencias - se ha abierto un nuevo capitulo del sangriento conflicto que flagela a Siria ya desde hace más de cinco años. Mientras tanto, después Paris, el terrorismo reaccionario ha extendido su carga mortal tambien a Bruselas, Niza, Múnich, Berlin y Estambul. Multiplicando asi las semillas envenenadas de aquella politica mediterránea realizada durante dos siglos, tanto en el Norte de África como en Levante, por la propia Francia, en competencia o en acuerdo durante décadas con el imperio inglés, con el ruso y con el imperialismo italiano, aléman y americano.

Ce mémento présente, en quatre langues, les principaux aspects du dossier du conflit artificiel sur le Sahara marocain. C'est une synthèse claire des réalités et des enjeux de la question. Le Mémento de la question du Sahara marocain expose des arguments historiques, juridiques, géopolitiques, sociaux et économiques pour démontrer les droits du Maroc et l'imposture du complot séparatiste orchestré par l'Algérie et l'ancien bloc communiste.

This handbook presents in four languages (French, English, Spanish and Arabic) the main issues of the case of the artificial conflict on Moroccan Sahara. It is a clear synthesis of this Question. The Handbook on the Question of Moroccan Sahara set out historic, legal, geopolitical, social and economic arguments to demonstrate the rights of Morocco and the deceptive separatist plot orchestrated by Algeria and the former Communist Bloc.
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Which are the perceptions of the border in European border regions before and after the COVID-19 pandemic? This Cahier Fare n°25 presents the results of the Jean Monnet Network "Frontières en mouvement: quels modèles pour l'UE (FRONTEM)?", which was supported by the EU's Erasmus+ program for the period between 2019-2023. The network exchanged knowledge and practices on five different types of EU border perception: at the border between France and Germany, at the border between France and Belgium, at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, at the border between Rumania and Hungary and at the border between Denmark and Germany. By analysing the results of focus groups organised in and mental maps drawn for each of the 5 border regions concerned, it critically examines the perception of the border as a place of cross-border reconciliation, of minority co-existence and of peace facilitation. The key question addressed by the network was to assess the mental perception of the border when faced with processes of re-bordering and the re-questioning of the model of a "Europe without borders". Lire la suite Fermer

« Dr Besenyo has written a troubling, first-hand account of the remarkably complex and difficult operation the AU/UN peacekeeping effort was in Darfur. It should be read by policymakers who contemplate these operations in the future. » Andrex Natsios, Director at the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs and Executive Professor

This book is a collection of the analyses of international relations made by Arrigo Cervetto during the first thirty years of his activity as a militant revolutionary. This great analytical work is the outcome of the political battle that Cervetto fought during those years to restore Leninism to Italy, and cannot be separated from his particular interpretation of Lenin's political legacy.
For Cervetto, and for the small group of revolutionaries that gather round him after the Second World War, this return to Lenin is the indispensable prerequisite for the formulation of a revolutionary strategy. In other words, via Leninism, these militants aspire to raise the communist movement out of the abyss the Fascist, Stalinist and Social-Democratic counterrevolution had cast it into.
The title of this book picks up a concept, that of « unitary imperialism » in fact, which had been worked out starting from the internationalist debate of the early '50s. From a political point of view, asserting the existence of « unitary imperialism » at that moment in history meant saying above all that one attributed to the ussr, as well as to all the so-called « socialist camp », the same social nature as its opposing Western « capitalist camp ».
Internationalism thus found a solid theoretical base, but the concept of « unitary imperialism » goes much further than its occasional use in the political struggle against Stalinism.
In his effort to link up with the essence of the Leninist conception of the revolutionary party, Arrigo Cervetto finds the central core of the continuity between Marx and Lenin in the concept of socio-economic formation.
Cervetto demonstrates that this scientific acquisition of Marx's is the starting point of Lenin's elaboration and goes so far as to maintain, and to prove, that the Leninist Party is the solution to the problems posed by «Capital», that « the party [is] the apotheosis of Marxist science ».
The great mass of the material collected in these volumes testifies to Arrigo Cervetto's commitment to his effort to put his conception of the party and the revolutionary struggle into practice.
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"Our understanding of modern power politics usually relies on simple, linear narratives which tend to obfuscate complex systems. Sociological and historical connections in particular are eschewed, in favor of national (hi)stories and short-term analysis. Yet actors tend to found their intents and actions on complex kinetics, rooted in their core identities. To study the way identity is built and expressed opens the way for a more comprehensive analysis of actors on the international stage, through a recontextualization of social competition and the mechanisms of fear, hate and sacrifice. These kinetics also shine a light on the new, contemporary facets of power, which no longer exists as a unilateral flux but rather as a combination of action, expression and shaping of the superstructure. The example of the East China Sea, one of the most crucial lynch points of the 21st century, offers concrete evidence of this model's heuristic and prospective value, and opens the way for further development of analysis of complex systems as a science."
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What forces are operating in the shadows of the war in Ukraine, both inside and outside the theater of operations? What clandestine operations have been going on for the past three years, unknown to the general public? How does the secret war between Russia and Western countries often spill over into terrorism? What assassinations have been carried out against oligarchs across Europe? How are Western intelligence services, particularly British, helping the Ukrainians? What is the presence of Ukrainian services in Russia? What has become of the American biological laboratories since 1922?...
To answer these questions and many others, Jacques Baud draws on official information, American, Western, Ukrainian and Russian documents. Between secret diplomacy and clandestine operations, the war in Ukraine was far more complex than the media portrayed it.
After the bestsellers Putin, the Master of the Game, Operation Z and Ukraine Between War and Peace and The Art of Russian War, whose analytical work has been acclaimed worldwide and whose books have been translated in many countries (USA, China, Japan, Korea, Great Britain, Germany -bestseller-, Russia, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Brazil and the Arab countries), the author returns to the clandestine war that has been waged between Russia, Ukraine and Western countries for the past three years.
 
Jacques Baud is a former member of Swiss strategic intelligence, specialist in Eastern Europe and head of the United Nations peace operations doctrine. He took part in discussions with top Russian military and intelligence officials just after the fall of the USSR. Within NATO, he took part in programs in Ukraine, notably after the Maïdan revolution between 2014 and 2017.  He is the author of several books on intelligence, war and terrorism, including Poutine, le maître du jeu?, Opération Z, Ukraine entre guerre et paix, L'art de la guerre russe, Opération déluge d'Al-Aqsa and Gouverner par les fake news, published by Max Milo.
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Why Ukraine lost.

Why did Ukraine lose the war against Russia? How do both sides think and operate? What were the mistakes on both sides? How did the West contribute to Ukraine's defeat?
To answer these questions and many others, Jacques Baud draws on official information, American, Western and Russian documents that analyze Russian (and Soviet) strategies and tactics over the last 50 years. He explains how Russia understands and conducts war, and shows how our ignorance of this reality has pushed Ukraine towards defeat.
After the best-sellers Putin, the master of the game, Operation Z and Ukraine between war and peace, whose analytical work has been acclaimed worldwide and whose books have been translated in several countries (USA, Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, Russia, and soon Italy and Spain), the author returns to the war in Ukraine and more precisely to the Russian art of warfare over the past two years, during the Second World War and the war in Afghanistan. Lire la suite Fermer