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Dominique Moisi

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.


Commentaries by Dominique Moisi

  • Newsart for The Triumph of Fear

    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…

  • Newsart for France’s German Mirror

    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…

  • Newsart for The Cacophony of the World

    The Cacophony of the World

    PARIS – In his masterpiece Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger describes, probably too idyllically, the international balance-of-power system that, f…

  • Newsart for Hollande in Mali

    Hollande in Mali

    PARIS – While hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Paris against the right of homosexual couples to marry and adopt children, French troops…

  • Newsart for The European Oasis

    The European Oasis

    PARIS – Are non-Europeans much less pessimistic about Europe than Europeans themselves? Could distance be a prerequisite for a more balanced…

  • Newsart for China and the American Dream

    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…

  • Newsart for Europe Moves East

    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…

  • Newsart for For Whom Syria Tolls

    For Whom Syria Tolls

    PARIS – With every passing week, the Syrian conflict increasingly resembles the Spanish Civil War. The images of warplanes bombing civilians…

  • Newsart for Eyesight for Israel’s Blind

    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…

  • Newsart for How the West Was Re-Won

    How the West Was Re-Won

    PARIS – In 2005, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, a prestigious exhibit sponsored by the Chinese Government, “The Three Emperors,” ce…

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  • The Triumph of Fear

    Olanrewaju Kamil-Muhammed OSENI: We are simply living for the fear of something in the present world. Africa has challenges with leadership and fear of failed states and unending civil wars and insecurity. Fear and risks everywhere a…

  • The Triumph of Fear

    udi cohen: The answer is quite simple, Broad understanding among citizens of the free world that Democracy and Liberalism are the new instruments being used by extremists and some difficulties question should be…

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