What we read

In this autobiography, General Lecointre, former Army Chief of Staff, recounts his military career, from the battlefields of Rwanda to Sarajevo and Iraq, and gives an account of his intimate experience as a man of war. François LECOINTRE, Paris, Gallimard, 2024

This book shows how the Indo-Pacific is a major geostrategic challenge for the 21st century: an economic engine driven by China's ambitions and the maritimisation of the world, it accounts for 90% of container transport. The authors also look at

The various contributions in this volume deal with the war in Ukraine using tools from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The volume does not confine itself to long-standing debates such as the question of moral justification.

This book takes stock of the political instrumentalisation of sport. To do this, the authors look back at key events such as the Sochi Games in 2014, which Russia used to signal its return to the international stage, the

Using 165 images from French army archives, Pierre Journoud tells the story of the battle of Dien Bien Phu. More specifically, he looks back at the origins of the battle and some of the key episodes in the last major confrontation of the war.

In the spirit of a chronicle, this book looks back at General de Gaulle's return journey to France at the end of the Second World War and the liberation of Paris. Jean-François MURACCIOLE, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2024 More information

Based on a meticulous historical study of numerous sources, including diaries, Sarah Gruszka analyses the siege of Leningrad. She focuses on the experiences of the besieged, who found themselves confronted not only with the

The author of this book seeks to elucidate the forces behind the competition between China and the United States and what is at stake. He argues that it is capitalism itself that is undermining globalisation and leading to the current fragmentation. Benjamin BURBAUMER,

This collective work examines the problems posed by nuclear deterrence from the point of view of ethics, rationality and legitimacy, and analyses its usefulness and effectiveness as the ultimate defence of democracies. Edited by the former

This book takes a systematic look at a fundamental aspect of defence strategy: military change. It goes beyond fads about 'transformation' or 'innovation' to analyse in detail the political, organisational and strategic factors that enable

In this book, David Adamsky, an acknowledged specialist in strategic issues, analyses deterrence as it is thought of and applied by Russia today. He provides a veritable genealogy of the Russian approach to coercion and puts it into perspective in relation to

Decision-making within the UN is often misunderstood, and is shown here in all its complexity. Interests, worldviews and even political ideologies clash. The term "mosaic" is used to describe this laborious process. Three examples are given,

The Indo-Pacific covers half the globe, is home to half the world's population, possesses a large proportion of the world's critical resources and is home to several major areas of tension, three of which are nuclear-armed. This book brings together leading experts to explain

If intelligence has never been so open to the outside world, yet still seems so unintelligible and uncertain, it is because the world is more complex, because there are more issues at stake and more threats, and because

The first ComCyber, it tells the story of the beginnings of French cyber defence and how it was rapidly built up to deal with unprecedented attacks, with many illustrations of cyber attacks in support, particularly to counter Daech. The book tells the story of a

In this third volume, the Red Team, a collective of science fiction authors, cartoonists and scriptwriters working under the guidance of the Defence Innovation Agency, presents two new anticipation scenarios. Their aim is to imagine the threats that could directly

A researcher at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, the author defends the idea that hypervelocity technologies, both civilian and military, are turning each and every one of us into soldiers. In her view, our brains have become the ultimate battlefield.

The author of this book was a military doctor for some thirty years, and took part in the French army's main overseas operations: Afghanistan, Mali, the Central African Republic and the former Yugoslavia. His account is a testament to the role of the doctor charged with intervening in wartime,

This book offers both a thematic and chronological analysis of the principles, players and tools of European security since the end of the Second World War. BADALASSI Nicolas, Paris, Armand Colin, 2024 More information

In Egypt and Tunisia, the Muslim Brotherhood were the big winners of the "Arab Spring" of 2011. A few months after the uprisings, which they had not anticipated, elections brought them to power. So what happened between their arrival

A dual geopolitical and geo-economic acceleration is underway, against a backdrop of growing Sino-American rivalry, Sino-Russian rapprochement, the strengthening of NATO and the political emergence of the "global South". The author points out the dangers of these pivotal zones where trade is concentrated.

Our entry into the Anthropocene - this new geological era characterised by the unprecedented influence of human societies on the planet's natural cycles - is having profound repercussions on international relations. Climate change, loss of biodiversity: the effects of

Is it economically rational for political entities to choose the path of destructive conflict rather than that of mutually beneficial exchange and cooperation? Defence economics was created to answer this fundamental question,

Who knows that France and the United States once clashed? In the second half of the 1790s, these two allied powers came into open conflict. Although war was never officially declared, the French and Americans clashed at the time.

You can kill in the name of God! We have recently rediscovered this through acts of terrorism and new wars of religion, in France and elsewhere. In the Western world today, many people think that believers should renounce their claim to the name of God.

The third and final volume of Napoleon's Memoirs opens with the Emperor's abdication, forced to leave Fontainebleau for the island of Elba. This forced exile did nothing to dampen Napoleon's spirit of conquest, and all he could think about was returning to Paris. After

These texts were written by Charles de Gaulle, usually in extenso, sometimes with a circumstantial insertion by André Pironneau. Signed by André Pironneau to cover the officer exposed to the risks of "hierarchical disapproval", they are unpublished but provide an interesting insight into the history of the French army.

Is deterrence a moderating factor in international relations? What role exactly does the atomic weapon play in a landscape where the forms of warfare have diversified? These questions are crucial today in the face of Russia's threats and at a time when

This book has been written by ambassadors, historians and journalists. The aim is to provide an overview of the history of international relations, from the supremacy of the Europeans (17th-20th centuries) to the multilateralism of today, through the two world wars, the Second World War and the Second World War.

This book analyses the process of globalisation of capitalism in its historical relationship with natural resources. Today, international capital is imposing itself on national sovereign rights through a structure of international arbitration. The author takes the example of oil, taking into account

In 1996, the Taliban came up against a contradiction between religious and economic reasons, driven by drug trafficking. However, the need for funding generated by the war of insurrection and the support of the peasant masses led to the adoption of a pragmatic approach.