Dr. Triantafyllos Karatrantos, Research Associate at ELIAMEP, analyzes the new European Union EU Counter-Terrorism Agenda, explaining how rapid changes in the digital environment, increasing online radicalization, and complex geopolitical developments make an adapted and strengthened strategy necessary.
In this context, the EU’s new institutional initiative aims to effectively address terrorism and violent extremism, both in the physical and digital domains, promoting a comprehensive and coherent response within the framework of the ProtectEU Internal Security Strategy.
Read the ELIAMEP Explainer here (in Greek).
La guerre en Iran aura des répercussions à l’échelle internationale, et notamment indirectement sur le conflit russo-ukrainien. En s’engageant dans cette guerre, les États-Unis risquent d’accroître la vulnérabilité de l’Ukraine puisqu’ils ne seront pas en mesure d’assurer un approvisionnement simultané en matière d’armement pour les deux conflits. Or après plus de quatre années de guerre, le bilan de la guerre en Ukraine ne cesse de s’alourdir. D’une part, si l’Ukraine a fait preuve de résistance et de résilience face à une armée russe bénéficiant d’un avantage démographique considérable, les coûts humains et économiques de ce conflit sont conséquents. D’autre part, la Russie a subi des pertes importantes, n’a pas atteint les objectifs qu’elle s’était fixés, et a connu un isolement relatif sur la scène internationale. En ce qui concerne les perspectives de paix, celles-ci semblent aujourd’hui encore lointaines. L’Europe n’a pas su pleinement s’imposer comme médiateur du conflit et la tentative états-unienne de résolution du conflit en 24h n’a pas porté ses fruits. Ainsi, quel bilan peut dresser à propos de la guerre en Ukraine ? La Russie sortira-t-elle affaiblie ou renforcée de ce conflit ? Quel rôle les États-Unis et l’Europe ont-ils réellement joué dans l’évolution de la guerre ? L’Ukraine a-t-elle encore les moyens de restaurer son intégrité territoriale ? À quels enjeux le pays risque-t-il d’être confronté à la fin de la guerre ?
Autant d’enjeux abordés dans ce podcast aux côtés d’Hugues Pernet, ancien ambassadeur de France en Ukraine.
L’article La guerre en Iran vue de Russie et d’Ukraine. Avec Hugues Pernet est apparu en premier sur IRIS.
This chapter explores the role of social cohesion in African post-colonial state- and nation-building. It argues that understandings of social cohesion, rooted in pre-colonial traditions and concepts, were central to political and intellectual debates during decolonization in the 1960s and remain relevant today. Drawing on ethnophilosophical sources, such as oral traditions, proverbs, and communal practices, as well as social theories of African humanism and socialism, this chapter identifies core African notions of interconnectedness, collective responsibility, and the common good. Concepts including ubuntu, ujamaa, harambee, and other local philosophies illustrate how interdependence, identity, lineage, and community well-being shaped both traditional societies and post-independence political visions. African leaders and intellectuals invoked these ideas to legitimize distinctive paths of development, often contrasting them with Western models of statehood and individualism. At the same time, tensions arose between local, national, and pan-African identities, and between communal ideals and the practicalities of mass societies. By situating these debates historically and conceptually, this chapter demonstrates that social cohesion has been a constitutive element of African state- and nation-building and offers insights into contemporary challenges of inclusion, identity, and unity across diverse societies.
This chapter explores the role of social cohesion in African post-colonial state- and nation-building. It argues that understandings of social cohesion, rooted in pre-colonial traditions and concepts, were central to political and intellectual debates during decolonization in the 1960s and remain relevant today. Drawing on ethnophilosophical sources, such as oral traditions, proverbs, and communal practices, as well as social theories of African humanism and socialism, this chapter identifies core African notions of interconnectedness, collective responsibility, and the common good. Concepts including ubuntu, ujamaa, harambee, and other local philosophies illustrate how interdependence, identity, lineage, and community well-being shaped both traditional societies and post-independence political visions. African leaders and intellectuals invoked these ideas to legitimize distinctive paths of development, often contrasting them with Western models of statehood and individualism. At the same time, tensions arose between local, national, and pan-African identities, and between communal ideals and the practicalities of mass societies. By situating these debates historically and conceptually, this chapter demonstrates that social cohesion has been a constitutive element of African state- and nation-building and offers insights into contemporary challenges of inclusion, identity, and unity across diverse societies.
This chapter explores the role of social cohesion in African post-colonial state- and nation-building. It argues that understandings of social cohesion, rooted in pre-colonial traditions and concepts, were central to political and intellectual debates during decolonization in the 1960s and remain relevant today. Drawing on ethnophilosophical sources, such as oral traditions, proverbs, and communal practices, as well as social theories of African humanism and socialism, this chapter identifies core African notions of interconnectedness, collective responsibility, and the common good. Concepts including ubuntu, ujamaa, harambee, and other local philosophies illustrate how interdependence, identity, lineage, and community well-being shaped both traditional societies and post-independence political visions. African leaders and intellectuals invoked these ideas to legitimize distinctive paths of development, often contrasting them with Western models of statehood and individualism. At the same time, tensions arose between local, national, and pan-African identities, and between communal ideals and the practicalities of mass societies. By situating these debates historically and conceptually, this chapter demonstrates that social cohesion has been a constitutive element of African state- and nation-building and offers insights into contemporary challenges of inclusion, identity, and unity across diverse societies.