Geopolitics & International Relations

Rearming Europe, disarming peace: the continent's great strategic shift

17 May 202617 May 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

We are not only in a phase of « return from war » ; We are in a phase of political, budgetary, industrial and media normalization of preparation for war. It's not exactly the same thing. The first is a strategic finding: the international order is more conflicting. The second is a cultural shift: war ceases to be thought of as the ultimate failure of politics to become a plausible horizon of public action.

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Accused! Episode 2/3 - Open letter to those who have taken the world

16 May 20262 May 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

I am not writing to you to beg your gratitude or to seek your compassion. I'm not writing to move you. I am not writing to convince you: you have had centuries to understand. I'm writing you to establish the facts. I'm writing to file a brief. I'm writing to you so that language stops protecting crime. I am writing to you so that the silence, once again, is not on the side of the victors.

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The world under the test of force: war, dependencies and recomposition of international order

6 April 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

The news of this spring 2026 has dispelled an illusion that has structured Western economic thinking for more than three decades: that of an interdependent world but fundamentally stabilized by trade, finance, technology and institutions. The war that spread around Iran recalled that globalization had not abolished geopolitics; It had simply made it more diffuse, more systemic, and potentially more devastating.

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Information in wartime

29 March 202614 March 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

In contemporary conflicts, war is no longer confined to the battlefields. It is also played in the minds. Armed forces are competing on the ground, but governments, intelligence services and communications equipment are competing in another equally strategic area: information.

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When war becomes a market: plea for a world that is drunk with weapons and is breaking its senses

16 April 20268 March 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

In the shadow of today's conflicts, an implacable mechanics has reactivated. Military budgets are exploding, factories are running at full speed, algorithms are learning to kill remotely, while poverty, disease and ignorance remain the silent emergencies of billions of human beings. The war, once assumed tragedy, turned into an industrial process, a technological laboratory and a commercial showcase. This text is neither a naive pacifist manifesto nor an easy moral condemnation: it is a lucid argument against a world which, in the name of its security, seems to have lost the sense of limit, responsibility and human.

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The dictatorships that the West denounces are often those that its history has helped to bring forth

28 March 20266 March 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

Western powers, particularly the United States, are willing to present themselves as the guardians of democracy, human rights and international order. They denounce authoritarian regimes, stigmatize massive violations of freedoms and brandish international law as a moral compass of the international community. Yet when we observe the long history of international relations ...

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From the illusion of international law to the law of the strongest: autopsy of a decaying world order

7 March 20264 March 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

Each international crisis, every armed conflict, every massive violation of human rights, the same vocabulary returns as an incantatory ritual: international law, international community, United Nations, peacekeeping. Yet, behind these words full of history and norms, the dominant feeling is that of profound impotence. Wars multiply, civilians pay...

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International cooperation in Africa: from the mirage of partnership to the mechanics of dependency

3 March 202624 February 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

When aid, donation and infrastructure become the vectors for organised underdevelopment The semantic trap of cooperation The word cooperation has an almost indisputable positive moral burden. He refers to mutual aid, solidarity, sharing of interests and the reassuring idea of common progress. Applied to Africa, it has been imposed since independence as a discursive pillar of development ...

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NGOs, wars, dependence and life-saving illusion: Critical autopsy of a global system where charity organizes survival without producing emancipation

4 March 202621 February 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

For more than three decades, Africa has become one of the main theatres of international humanitarian action. Refugee camps, nutritional programmes, mobile clinics, food distributions, resilience projects, protection missions: the footprint of NGOs is pervasive. This presence is so long-lasting that it is no longer an exception, but a mode of ordinary crisis management ...

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When the First World Power Makes the International Order Vacilate: The Law of the Strongest Against the Hope of a World Regulated by Law, Human Rights and a Reformed UN

26 January 202625 January 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

Since his return to the US presidency in January 2025, Donald J. Trump has initiated a radical transformation of US foreign policy, brutally breaking the principles of multilateralism, international law and institutional cooperation that have structured international relations since 1945. Through a series of spectacular decisions: withdrawal ...

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