INTERVIEW – According to the geopolitical analyst, European elites and people have internalized the discourse of the “new predators,” which suggests that our continent has exited history, as analyzed in his new book.
François Heisbourg is a special advisor to the Foundation for Strategic Research and has presided over the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and the Centre for Security Policy in Geneva. He has published Europe Facing the Predators: Forging the New Power (Odile Jacob editions).
LE FIGARO. – After Ukraine, is the war in Iran, with its extension into Ormuz, a new accelerator of the confrontation between autocratic regimes and democracies? Does it strengthen – for now – the “predators” of the anti-Western and anti-European camp?
FRANÇOIS HEISBOURG. – Iran, for now, comes out strengthened from this war. Tehran is setting the pace, which was not foreseen by the initiators of the conflict, the United States and Israel. The Iranians have discovered that closing the Strait of Hormuz is not only easy to implement but extraordinarily profitable as a strategic tool. We are witnessing a confrontation…
