La guerre à l'ère de l'intelligence artificielle

Quand les machines prennent les armes

Les progrès fulgurants des techniques d'intelligence artificielle et de la robotique, et surtout leur application au domaine de la défense, font entrevoir l'émergence de nouveaux types de robots militaires, rendus toujours plus autonomes, c'est-à-dire capables de recourir à la force de leur ...

Géopolitique de la Russie

Parce qu'elle s'étend de l'Est européen à l'océan Pacifique, la Russie est à la croisée des grandes aires géopolitiques mondiales. Au sud, le Moyen-Orient est perçu comme un arc de crise en proie à l'islamisme, dont les contrecoups se répercutent ...

Géopolitique des islamismes

Des salafistes piétistes aux Frères musulmans, des Ouïghours indépendantistes chinois à Al-Qaïda ou à l'Etat islamique (EI), en passant par les islamistes d'Indonésie, de France, d'Angleterre ou de Tchétchénie, l'onde de choc islamiste fait parler d'elle dans le monde entier ...

SIPRI Yearbook 2024

armaments, disarmament and international security

The SIPRI Yearbook is an authoritative and independent source of data and analysis on armaments, disarmament and international security. It provides an overview of developments in international security, military expenditure, weapons and technology, arms production and the arms trade, armed conflict and conflict management, and ...

The great reversal

Britain, China and the 400-year contest for power

A vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the present The relationship between Britain and China has shaped the modern world. Chinese art, philosophy and science have had a profound effect upon British culture, while the long history of British ...

Arab-Israeli conflict

the essential reference guide

Truly an essential reference for today's world, this detailed introduction to the origins, events, and impact of the adversarial relationship between Arabs and Israelis illuminates the complexities and the consequences of this long-lasting conflict. The Arab-Israeli conflict remains one of the most contentious in ...

Monstrous anger of the guns

how the global arms trade is ruining the world and what we can do about it

We are seeing injustices caused by war and occupation unfold in real-time via social media, and we are speaking out in our millions against these horrors. Yet, from Gaza to Ukraine, the bombs continue to fall. We must understand why this is happening if we ...

War in Ukraine

conflict, strategy, and the return of a fractured world

The war in Ukraine has altered the course of global history. These authors explore how. When Vladimir Putin's forces sought to conquer Ukraine in February 2022, they did more than threaten the survival of a vulnerable democracy. The invasion unleashed a crisis that has ...

The Palestine laboratory

how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world

Israel's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the ...

Whose promised land?

the continuing crisis over Israel and Palestine

The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has profoundly affected the Middle East for almost eighty years, and shows no sign of ending. With two peoples claiming the same piece of land for different reasons, it remains a huge political and humanitarian problem. Can it ...

How states think

the rationality of foreign policy

A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally? To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely ...

Latin American foreign policies in the new world order

the active non-alignment option

Latin America, with 8 percent of the world's population and 30 percent of the world's deaths from COVID-19, is Ground Zero of the pandemic. The region has also had the world's worst economic performance in this period. Moreover, it is presently caught ...

Insurgent nations

rebel rule in Angola and South Sudan

Over two separate twelve-year periods, two opposing 'states' governed in parallel in Angola (1979-1991) and Sudan (1990-2002), each with competing conceptions of society, history and national identity. Deeply dividing communities with their counter-nationalist programmes, rebel parties UNITA in Angola and the SPLM/A in Sudan ...

Hollow land

Israel's architecture of occupation

How does Israel extend its control over Palestinian lands? From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels the mechanisms of control and how they have transformed Gaza and the West Bank into a war zone. This is ...

The killing of Gaza

reports on a catastrophe

Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict for decades. In The Killing of Gaza, he brings together his on-the-ground perspectives of ...

Loot

how Israel stole Palestinian property

During the 1948 War, Israeli fighters and residents alike plundered Palestinian homes, shops, businesses, and farms. This bitter truth was then suppressed or forgotten over the coming years. Tens of thousands took part in the pillage of Palestinian property, stealing the belongings of their former ...

International Organizations

This new textbook introduces readers to the nature, structure and purpose of international organizations (IOs). Taking a broad, issues-based approach, the book goes beyond a conventional focus on topics like security and finance to cover global health, migration, food security, and technology. In addition to ...

The war below

lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our lives

The trillion-dollar battle for the resources to power our future. Oil and gas defined the twentieth century. Now lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earths and nickel will define the twenty-first. The world is moving towards replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. But building electric vehicles, solar ...

Conflict

the evolution of warfare from 1945 to Gaza

Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past, and anticipate in the future, in order to navigate an increasingly perilous world. In this ...

Apocalypse next

why another pandemic - or worse - is inevitable : and what we can do about it

The Covid-19 pandemic was, and remains, a global disaster - claiming countless lives and wreaking economic havoc that still reverberates today. But it could have been worse. Much worse. Author Stephen Davies contends the planet 'dodged a bullet' this time around. But he warns this was ...