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"Are democracies equipped to face authoritarian empires?", excerpts from Nicolas Baverez's new essay

2023-03-13T17:30:00.980Z


EXCLUSIVE - In a new dense and enlightened work, Democracy against authoritarian empires - Freedom is a fight (L'Observatoire), which appears this Wednesday, March 15 and of which Le Figaro publishes some extracts exclusively, the essayist analyzes the painful awakening of democracies...


The new geopolitical balance

“Charles Péguy underlined, in

Notre jeunesse

that “

we must always say what we see.

Above all, one must always, which is more difficult, see what one sees

 ”.

So let's accept to see what the war in Ukraine reveals to us, even if it's not pleasant.

First of all, the world is entering a new era which is no longer dominated by the forces of integration of the world economy but by geopolitics and the balance of power.

Far from the end of history, the 21st century will be like the 20th, a century of iron and blood whose stake will be the survival of political freedom.

The partition of the international system into blocs is thus overshadowed by the confrontation between authoritarian empires and democracies.

It is driven by the will of the former to eradicate democracy and supplant the West.

This is evidenced both by the declarations and the actions of Vladimir Putin, whose increasingly absolute power merges with the race to war, from Chechnya to Ukraine...

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Source: lefigaro

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