The relationship between major powers – the United States, China, Russia, Europe – will change as a result of the war. Will China fear the outcome of the conflict, or will it benefit from the new world balances? Will globalization and open trade survive? SWIFT may close, but the risk of food insecurity seems to require the maintenance of a relatively open world. The silent weight of nuclear power, the all-out use of information technologies – especially through civilian information – do they signal a upheaval in the rules of future conflicts? And what about Europe in all of this? Will it succeed in waking up in a world that pits its brute strength against its commercial pacifism?
The war in Ukraine is shaking up many reflexes developed in the last thirty years, even as paradoxically, it is considered provincial in much of the world. The world is busy with other issues: the presidential election in Brazil, the upcoming Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the predicted collapse of Lebanon, the struggle of Africans to recover a cultural memory erased by colonization – all issues also present in this edition of Foreign Policy.
WAR IN UKRAINE: A WORLD CHANGE?
Ukraine War: a Korean model?, by Pierre Grosser
Global food fragility and the war in Ukraine, by Sébastien Abis and Diane Mordacq
SWIFT: from neutrality to geopilitical weapon?, by Alexis Collomb
Ukraine: a nuclear era shift, by Jean-Louis Lozier
Open Source Intelligence in the war in Ukraine, by Sophie Perrot
The European Union in a continent at war, by Thierry Chopin and Christian Lequesne
Germany’s defense policy: a historic turning point?, by Hans Stark
Ukraine War: an embarrassment for Beijing, by Marc Julienne
Sovereignty in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, by Bernard Chappedelaine
NEWS
Brazil on the brink of presidential election, by Martine Droulers
The 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party: the elusive renewal, by Jérôme Doyon
REFERENCES
Japan’s public debt: genesis and sustainability, by Quentin Simon
FREE THOUGHTS
Lebanon, a battleground between Saudi Arabia and Iran, by Nabil el Khoury
The resurgence of movements for the return of African heritage, by Ysé Auque-Pallez.
