The former ambassador to the United Nations and to Washington, now "retired" for three years, has decided not to stay in retreat or in retirement.
He writes books to explain diplomacy to those who do not see what it can be used for, he collaborates, occasionally, in consulting firms, but also in the weekly
Le Point
, it is spreading on Twitter.
Gérard Araud is from the school of realistic liberals.
He believes in the beneficial effect of the movement of goods and people, but he hardly believes that a diplomat should turn into a human rights advocate or a builder of democracies.
Wilsonianism and its neoconservative variants, very little for him.
The idea of an international order governed by the rule of law is a fiction, he points out during our conversation: there is no UN policeman of nations and empires.
An example?
even without the UN Imprimatur, the US invades Iraq, and does whatever it wants on the ground.
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