by Charles Sitzenstuhl (2011)
La Turquie retrouve au Moyen-Orient une place d'acteur incontournable. La diplomatie turque reste empreinte d'un pragmatisme et d'un réalisme saisissant, héritière des traditions ottomanes et kémalistes. Voici des clés de compréhension à propos d'un pays dont la politique extérieure nourrit les passions.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
For over a century now, America has dominated global politics and the global imagination. Yet as the dollar declines, inequality increases, rates of consumption are unprecedented and American unilateralism comes under fire, such hegemony is increasingly unsustainable. In this provocative new book, leading sociologist Jan Nederveen Pieterse asks whether it?s possible for America to chart a different course.
Raymond William Rabemananjara
Au Cours d'un long chemin voué à la chose publique, les deux interlocuteurs, A.R. Ratsimamanga et R.W. Rabemananjara furent confrontés, au service de la Terre des Ancêtres, à des situations complexes et périlleuses qui ont formé leur expérience, en dehors des jugements précipités, des affirmations hasardeuses ou des préjugés. Ainsi les leçons de la vie ont-elles été des guides précieux. Pourquoi ne pas les partager avec ceux qui privilégient le dialogue au-delà des différences ?
William I. Robinson
A penetrating analysis of the controversial U.S. role in the 1990 Nicaraguan elections - the most closely monitored in history - this book exposes the intervention in the electoral process of a sovereign nation by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State, the National Endowment for Democracy, and private U.S.-based organizations. Robinson begins by tracing the evolution of U.S. foreign policy in recent decades and reviewing U.S.-Nicaraguan relations since the Carter administration. He then describes specific aspects of the "electoral intervention project," bringing to light the clandestine activities of U.S. officials. Finally, he examines the implications of such an undertaking for U.S. foreign policy and for social change in the Third World in the post-cold war era, arguing that it is a dangerous harbinger of a new interventionism conducted under the pretext of promoting democracy. Drawing on an extensive array of confidential documents and on interviews with representatives from U.S. and foreign government agencies, private organizations, and anti-Sandinista groups in Nicaragua, the author offers a chilling account of a foreign policy venture that was at the very least duplicitous and quite possibly illegal as well.
Robert L. Hutchings
As director for European affairs at the National Security Council in 1989-92, Robert Hutchings was at the heart of U.S. policymaking toward Europe and the Soviet Union during the dizzyingly fast dissolution of the Soviet bloc. Hutchings adds a scholar's balanced judgment and historical perspective to his insider's view from the White House as he reconstructs how things looked to policymakers in the United States and in Europe, describes how and why decisions were made, and critically examines those decisions in the light of what can now be known. He assesses the critical support of U.S. diplomacy for the East European revolutions and the unification of Germany - offering fascinating character sketches along the way - and describes how U.S. relations with Moscow were managed up to the collapse of the USSR. Hutchings also discusses the difficulties in forging a post-cold war European order and U.S. failures in dealing with a disintegrating Yugoslavia.