*Former Minister of Culture and Education in Lebanon and former diplomat at the UN, Ghassan Salamé is professor emeritus of international relations at Sciences Po.
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LE FIGARO. - At the end of the Cold War, people believed in the triumph of Venus and the obliteration of Mars. Did we really believe that the practice of war could disappear and was this the first time we believed it
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Humanity has believed in it several times. President Woodrow Wilson, by instigating the creation of the League of Nations in 1918, hoped to put an end to the “temptation of Mars”, evoking a “war to end all wars”. A quarter of a century later, Franklin Roosevelt invoked the same idea in 1945 during the San Francisco conference, which allowed the creation of the UN. Many pacifist movements are also part of this refusal of Mars. This is the case of the Briand-Kellogg pact, a peace treaty signed in 1928 by 63 countries - very significant for the time -, which
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