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Pierre Fermigier
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Politics, History, MENA & International Relations | Ex HRVP Cabinet, EEAS, SGDSN, Quai d'Orsay & Assemblée nationale | RT≠endorsement
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“Finally, surveillance #capitalism depends upon undermining individual self-determination, autonomy and decision rights for the sake of an unobstructed flow of behavioural #data to feed markets that are about us but not for us.”
'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff’s new book is a chilling exposé of the business model that underpins the digital world. Observer tech columnist John Naughton explains the importance of Zuboff’s work and asks the auth...
www.theguardian.com
«Pour restaurer un pays perdu, le #nationalisme n’a dès lors que deux recours : la prière adressée à Dieu, ou le recours à une puissance étrangère restée fidèle à la tradition et à l’autorité.»
Nationalistes européens : l’atlantisme du pire
L'hommage unanime des extrêmes droites européennes à la figure de Charlie Kirk témoigne d’un phénomène qui n'est paradoxal qu'en apparence : la propension des nationalistes à chercher la protection d’une puissance hostile, hier comme aujourd’hui. Dans une lettre ouverte à Henri de Kérillis, le seul député conservateur à avoir voté contre les accords de Munich en 1938, François Mauriac écrivait :…
esprit.presse.fr
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Jules Michelet, sur la guerre de Succession de Pologne (1733-1738).
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
«Si on veut commander, […] il faut aussi avoir des troupes sur le front. Et ça, avec un parc blindé Leclerc, même rénové à 200 unités avec un taux de dispo à 50% – soyons optimistes –, ce n'est pas très convaincant.» @leoperiapeigne.bsky.social
Blinder l'avenir. Qui a (encore) peur du char de combat?
Entre les limitations en Ukraine et la remontée en puissance manifeste des armées européennes sur le segment blindé, le Collimateur fait le point sur l'actualité et les perspectives pour le char de co...
lerubicon.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
«Si nous faisions le bilan de notre contenu mental – opinions, normes, désirs, présomptions –, nous remarquerions que la plus grande partie de ce contenu ne vient pas au Français de sa France ni à l’Espagnol de son Espagne, mais du fonds commun européen.»
L’européisme précurseur d’Ortega y Gasset
À propos de : Béatrice Fonck, José Ortega y Gasset : penseur de l'Europe, Les Belles Lettres
laviedesidees.fr
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
«Soucieux de s’opposer à ce fatalisme technologique, et à mille lieues de ces approches, l’auteur mobilise les ressources de la sociologie pour questionner l’impact de l’IA sur l’organisation du #travail».
Le travail au temps de l’IA
À propos de : Juan Sebastián Carbonell, Un taylorisme augmenté. Critique de l'intelligence artificielle, Éditions Amsterdam
laviedesidees.fr
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
“The challenge to Europe is how to make a strategic investment in Ukraine’s future military capabilities, while still funding the country’s day-to-day needs on the battlefield.”
Time for Europe to Break the Bank on Ukraine
With U.S. aid largely discontinued, European leaders have no choice but to unlock Russia’s sovereign assets in order to keep Ukraine afloat. Only a long-term military and financial commitment can help...
carnegieendowment.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
«À défaut de savoir ce que l’avenir réserve, on a la certitude qu’un retour aux vieilles recettes de gouvernance sahéliennes n’est pas une option.» #Sahel
Vers l’État-archipel au Sahel - AOC media
Le Groupe de soutien à l’Islam et aux Musulmans (JNIM) est aujourd’hui aux portes de Bamako, et il gouverne une bonne partie de l’hinterland malien et burkinabè ainsi que l’ouest du Niger. Le JNIM a s...
aoc.media
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“One of the most egregious wastes of capital in history, sold by career charlatans with their reputations laundered by a tech and business media afraid to criticize the powerful and analysts that don’t seem to want to tell their investors the truth.”
The Case Against Generative AI
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
«Si les #Jacobins n’ont pas eu de doctrine ou d’orthodoxie centralisatrice, on comprend que les Girondins n’en avaient pas davantage qui fût décentralisatrice».
Le mythe de l’État centralisateur
À propos de : Guillaume Roubaud-Quashie, Côme Simien, Haro sur les Jacobins. Essai sur un mythe politique français. XVIIIe-XXIe siècle, Puf
laviedesidees.fr
November 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“This has to be a party that actually allows for Americans to see themselves in it and not just be a mirror image of just a few people who are engaged in politics”.
Zohran Mamdani’s lessons for Labour
The socialist’s victory shows the power of cost-of-living issues
www.newstatesman.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
“Most analysts, inside and outside the country, argue that it is in #Turkey’s strategic interests to act now, while the opportunity is there and #Russia is still distracted in Ukraine.”
Armenia's Election Is a Foreign Affair
As the 2026 Armenian election approaches, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is facing fierce opposition from both Russia and the diaspora. He will need the help of Europe, the United States, and regional...
carnegieendowment.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
“The countries that have a Baltic coastline today, excluding #Russia, could agree to a new treaty requiring ships to meet certain standards of insurance and certification to be allowed to navigate the Baltic—for example, on grounds of ecological protection.” #ShadowFleet
Ukraine’s Hardest Winter
With the Donbas in peril, Europe must pressure Russia now.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“In retreating from aid, donor countries are ignoring an unavoidable truth: food insecurity in one place leads to instability in others.”
A Hidden Hunger Crisis Is Destabilizing the World
Food insecurity provokes violence—and weakens even wealthy states.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“According to Germany’s Foreign Ministry, up to 80 percent of #Russia’s sanctions circumvention now involves Chinese entities. By allowing the Kremlin to finance aggression, #China gains an economic advantage by tying Russia’s economy to its own.”
China is the Weak Link in Europe’s Ukraine Strategy
China plays an increasingly active role in the Kremlin’s hybrid war against Europe. The EU must confront this growing China-Russia cooperation, as it poses grave threats to both European security and ...
carnegieendowment.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
“It might seem surreal to say, but, compared to the past decade, #Trump may be gradually fading from the scene. The question – always – is what comes next.”
Is Donald Trump losing interest in US politics?
The president is more concerned with basking in power than fighting the Democrats
www.newstatesman.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
“Many industry officials hope that moving arms sales under the Defense Department’s acquisition leaders — who already manage contracts and supply chains — will cut bureaucracy”.
Hegseth to unveil arms sale overhaul
The Defense secretary will announce changes to the Pentagon’s weapons purchases at an unusual gathering of defense industry executives.
www.politico.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“Instead of relying on temporary measures, EU member states should transfer #LUKoil’s assets to European energy firms.”
Energy reckoning: How Europe can use US sanctions to cut Moscow’s oil ties
The EU has a strategic opening to align with US sanctions on Rosneft and LUKoil. It must compel divestment from European assets and close loopholes that enable Moscow to circumvent restrictions…
ecfr.eu
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
«L’analogie qui me semble la plus pertinente, pour l’instant du moins, est celle du #maccarthysme, surtout à nouveau depuis la mort de Kirk, avec l’insistance de Trump et de ses plus proches conseillers sur “les ennemis de l'intérieur”.»
Le trumpisme ou la fin de la modernité politique
Maya Kandel est chercheuse associée à l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 (CREW). Son dernier livre, Une première histoire du trumpisme, est paru chez Gallimard en mai 2025. En dialogue avec Daniel Gascón, directeur de l’édition espagnole de Letras libres, elle évoque, au-delà des ressorts d’une ascension fulgurante, la progressive structuration d’un corpus idéologique, dont la traduction…
esprit.presse.fr
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“The #Mamdani campaign was built on another proposition: we win the future by extending the arena of political participation and engagement to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit.”
Zohran's Promise - Dissent Magazine
The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward will be sustaining faith in the idea that the c...
www.dissentmagazine.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
«En octobre 2025, un quart des escadrons de #Gendarmerie mobile était déployé en permanence outre-mer (exactement 39 sur 165) dont pas moins de 20 en Nouvelle-Calédonie.»
L'Outre-Mer pèse (très) lourdement sur la Gendarmerie
Le Directeur général de la Gendarmerie nationale, le général Hubert Bonneau a été auditionné par les députés et les sénateurs. «La Gendarmerie est une force armée de couverture du territoire national»...
www.secretdefensev2.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
«La réappropriation européenne du “combat de haute intensité” se heurte encore à la faiblesse des chaînes de soutien et à la lenteur de la production, en particulier dans les domaines énergétiques et électroniques.»
[🔎À lire] 🇪🇺 Quelle autonomie capacitaire pour l’Europe ? Une analyse multi-domaine (aéroterrestre, aérospatial et maritime).

Nouvelle étude d'@elietenenbaum.bsky.social (avec la contribution de Jean-Baptiste Guyot et Guillaume Furgolle) : www.ifri.org/fr/etudes/qu...
November 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“In other words, a Russian invasion of the Baltic States would probably not be a localised conflict: scenarios should assume a war across the European theatre involving the use of a much greater level of mobilised state strategic capacity.”
How Russia sees the next war
Moscow's planning for future military conflict is poorly understood in the West.
engelsbergideas.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
“If optimism about what people can do for their country only comes from the right, some blame must lie with progressives who surrendered that ground.” #anglofuturism
The progressive case for Anglofuturism
There's nothing right-wing about a confident, ambitious and wealthy nation
www.newstatesman.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
“It is a reversion to the norms of international #diplomacy before 1914: highly personalised, unpredictable and almost as much about families as about states.”
Opinion | Diplomacy in the age of populism is fast, fickle and unbound by the rules of old
Swift, informal deals can quickly defuse crises, but without a new rules-based order, global stability is being held hostage to chance.
sc.mp
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“Finally, surveillance #capitalism depends upon undermining individual self-determination, autonomy and decision rights for the sake of an unobstructed flow of behavioural #data to feed markets that are about us but not for us.”
'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff’s new book is a chilling exposé of the business model that underpins the digital world. Observer tech columnist John Naughton explains the importance of Zuboff’s work and asks the auth...
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM