Dominique Moisi is Senior Adviser at IFRI (The French Institute for International Affairs) and a professor at L'Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). He is the author of The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World.
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Commentaries by Dominique Moisi
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America by Proxy?
PARIS – The demise of the Roman Empire resulted from a combination of strategic overreach and excessive delegation of security responsibilit…
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The Triumph of Fear
PARIS – In May 1981, Pope John Paul II survived an assassination attempt. Thirty years later, Osama bin Laden was killed by United States Sp…
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France’s German Mirror
BERLIN – Berlin’s Tegel Airport, which still greets most of the passengers arriving in the capital of Europe’s leading economic power, is ou…
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The Cacophony of the World
PARIS – In his masterpiece Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger describes, probably too idyllically, the international balance-of-power system that, f…
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Hollande in Mali
PARIS – While hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Paris against the right of homosexual couples to marry and adopt children, French troops…
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The European Oasis
PARIS – Are non-Europeans much less pessimistic about Europe than Europeans themselves? Could distance be a prerequisite for a more balanced…
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China and the American Dream
PARIS – China may be just a few years away from becoming the world’s leading economic power, and America’s strategic centrality may be on th…
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Europe Moves East
PARIS – Madrid and Warsaw recently looked very similar: both were the sites of massive demonstrations. But the crowds gathered at Europe’s w…
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For Whom Syria Tolls
PARIS – With every passing week, the Syrian conflict increasingly resembles the Spanish Civil War. The images of warplanes bombing civilians…
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Eyesight for Israel’s Blind
PARIS – To find a glimmer of hope on the Israel-Palestine question has become difficult, if not impossible. Most Israelis now believe that a…
America by Proxy?
m r: There is a more poignant and a better analysis of the subject matter raised here by Prof. Moisi in the Interview Syrian President gave recently to Argentinian Clarin: Q 18: Mr President, to what e…
America by Proxy?
Leo Arouet: Se deduce que la salida a es una mayor intervención de Estados Unidos y no delegar sus acciones a los países europeos. ¿Cómo podría darse esta intervención americana?