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?
Zsolt Hermann: If someone travels through airports anywhere in the world, especially through the US, or the UK, or Israel for example, or if we read the recent 'scandals" President Obama has to cope with, we can saf…
America by Proxy?
hari naidu: Recent postwar American foreign policy decision-making has been divided into more or less two schools of thinking: (1) Realist or realpolitik and (2) Idealistic or Wilsonian Obama (The Pash…