Bernard Bon is also a business consultant and Christophe Barthélemy, lawyer, lecturer at Sciences Po.
Since the end of the Cold War, the European members of the Atlantic Alliance have adopted a conception of international relations based on four assumptions.
The definitive victory of liberal democracy, at least in people's minds, so that there would be no alternative to its advent (the dividends of peace).
The universal expansion of capitalism (the dividends of sweet commerce).
The residual character of conflicts, at least between states, since the application of game theory always makes cooperation preferable to confrontation, especially between nuclear powers, which are therefore rational;
at most the confrontation would remain below the threshold of war (the dividends of rationality).
Finally, thanks to the American "umbrella" and technological superiority,
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