article de Brigitte Panah-Izadi et Jean Dubois L’illusion militaire« On peut tout faire avec des baïonnettes… sauf s’asseoir dessus », rappelait Talleyrand. La formule reste d’une actualité frappante : croire que la supériorité militaire permet de résoudre tous les conflits est une illusion persistante.Comme l’avait démontré Carl von Clausewitz, la guerre n’a de sens qu’inscrite […]
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The Gulf’s Strategic Dilemma
Authors: Nader and Brigitte Panah-Izadi How the erosion of wartime norms is pulling reluctant Gulf states toward the center of the Iran conflict For decades, the Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf feared that any direct confrontation between Iran and the United States—or Iran and Israel—would eventually spill across their region. That scenario has now […]
Book review on the novel Exiles from Paradise
With this first novel, Brigitte Adès offers us a “literature of instant history”. Convinced that fiction says more about reality than long treatises, she staged in this book the tormented friendship between Farhad and Reza, two exiles Iranians who confront each other on the question of faith. They embody, in their own way, the debate […]