Reflection is needed on this new region, as well as on the political, economic, and military measures to be taken within it.

However, this concept of the Indo-Pacific is also an attempt to control a growing Chinese power, to restrain it through this interlacing of powers that will limit its importance. Will China accept this? And will it be possible to arrange the coexistence of such diverse interests in this vast area, while taking into account specific regional and local needs?

CASE FILE

THE INDO-PACIFIC: A VIABLE CONCEPT?

 From the Indo-Pacific to Oceania: A Forgotten Part of the World?, by François Gaulme

France and the Indo-Pacific Concept, by Christian Lechervy

The Trump Administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Difficult Beginning, by Jean-Loup Samaan

The Indo-Pacific with Chinese Characteristics, by Rory Medcalf

 Small Pacific Island Nations in the Face of Climate Change, by Hervé Raimana Lallemant-Moe

COUNTER ANALYSIS

CAN WE STABILIZE THE SAHEL?

Is Stabilizing the Sahel the New Rock of Sisyphus?, by Jean-Marc Châtaigner

Sahel: The Basis of a Disaster by Alain Antil (In French only - Sahel : soubassements d'un désastre)

CURRENT AFFAIRS

 Is the EU Better Prepared for the Next Migration Challenges?, by Matthieu Tardis (In French only - L’UE est-elle prête pour les prochains défis migratoires ?)

BAROMETERS

Contesting Globalization: Twenty Years after the “Battle of Seattle”, by Eddy Fougier and Anna Dimitrova

 Germany-Namibia: the Challenges of Post-Colonial Reconciliation, by Stephan Martens

How to Curb Financing for the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction?, by Jean Masson

REFLECTIONS

 US Anti-Missile Defenses Called into Question, by Adrien Schu

BOOK REVIEWS

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, by Shoshana Zuboff
Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security, by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman
By Julien Nocetti