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Students of political science trace the concept of “sovereignty” back to a Frenchman by the name of Jean Bodin. Bodin was himself a politician, as well as a thinker and jurist. He lived in the sixteenth century, before the “Social Contract” school of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques…

The president has the right to sleep at ease. What more do the people want? He threw himself into the fire to save them. Forget about the grudges of journalists and social media users. The interests of the opposition that only care about pouncing on the feats. Forget about poverty, unemployment and…

We are confronted with a unique case of French politics in Niger that could be a model of what Paris can offer in the Iranian nuclear file, in Lebanon and its presidential impasse or how to deal with the terrorist Hezbollah group. It’s unique not because it’s special, but because it is…

The heated debate surrounding the selection of a replacement for Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice President of the European Union Commission responsible for climate policy and the EU’s Green Deal, underscores the central place climate secured for itself in the international political arena…

Last week, Algeria presented a political initiative to resolve the crisis in Niger, after the political, and even military dust of this crisis spread to the rest of West Africa. Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf visited Ghana, Nigeria, and Benin, before holding a press conference to announce…

Dreaming of freedom in his prison cell in Chateau d’If, Edmond Dantes the hero of Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 novel “The Count of Montecristo” dreams of the nearby port of Marseilles as a haven of peace and freedom. Two centuries later, Dantes might have revised his dream as France’s second largest city…

Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan’s departure, after five months of war, has set many developments in motion. It has opened the floodgates of analysis and interpretation. Many questions about his departure from the Army Command headquarters persist, including those about how he left to the…

No one can believe the claim that Libya’s Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush decided to meet her Israeli counterpart in Rome by herself, without coordinating with the leaders of the country. The “Rome meeting” was not an “individual initiative” made because of her “lack of diplomatic experience.” …

It is widely believed that freedom, rights, and interests are the Arab Levant’s vehicle to national democratic change, that is, toward refounding its homelands. Here, citizens head to public squares and bring down a regime with absolutely no legitimacy that is contaminated by nasty interests; a new…

The timing of the South African President’s congratulation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a BRICS plenary was no coincidence when he said: “In a few hours, India’s spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 will be landing on the moon. We congratulate you.” India carefully chose the date and time of its…

Two years ago, almost to the day, the world’s attention turned to Baghdad amid its efforts to further peace. It held an exceptional summit at an exceptional time. Overcoming deep polarization was its agenda, as my brothers and I, alongside the rulers of neighboring countries, worked tirelessly to…

In various ways, philosophers and thinkers have said that life is absurd and futile, and that its culmination in death attests to its absurdity and affirms its futility. But what about when death is not merely an event that brings life to an end but is the very essence of life? This…