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Le peuple américain est-il sot ?
La question se pose à propos de l'utilisation - ou pas - du vote des électeurs d'origine hispanique. A chaque élection depuis une trentaine d'années, les observateurs de la vie politique américaine leur décernent le titre de 'groupe' déterminant. Ils déjouent pourtant les prévisions... Rarement autant qu'à l'occasion d'une élection présidentielle n'apparaît aussi nettement la complexité démographique des Etats-Unis.La Syrie dans l’équation géopolitique régionale
La diaspora bangladaise sort de l'ombre en demandant à ce que le Bangladesh soit retiré de la liste des « pays sûrs »
Plusieurs centaines de personnes d'origine bangladaise, dont un certain nombre de demandeurs d'asile et de sans-papiers, ont manifesté, mercredi 29 février, à Paris, pour demander à ce que le Bangladesh soit retiré de la liste des "pays sûrs" qui limite les possibilités de se voir accorder le statut de réfugié. Une démarche inédite de la part de cette diaspora d'ordinaire très discrète, souvent employée dans la restauration ou dans les réseaux de vente à la sauvette de fruits et légumes, et qui constitue, depuis quelques années, l'un des plus forts contingents de demandeurs d'asile dans l'Hexagone. Munis de banderoles réclamant "les libertés fondamentales" ou "la démocratie" au Bangladesh, les manifestants ont défilé entre la gare Montparnasse et l'Assemblée nationale.Chine: Au moins dix morts dans des émeutes dans le Xinjiang
Au moins dix personnes ont été tuées à l'arme blanche mardi soir lors d'émeutes qui ont éclaté dans la province occidentale du Xinjiang, rapporte l'agence de presse officielle Chine Nouvelle. «Des émeutiers ont tué au moins dix personnes mardi soir et en ont blessé d'autres», indique l'agence de presse. «La police a tué au moins deux meurtriers et est en train de pourchasser les autres.» Les violences ont éclaté dans le comté de Yecheng près de Kashgar, une ville située dans le sud de la province du Xinjiang.Japan Blocks the Young, Stifling the Economy
But like many young Japanese, he was a so-called irregular worker, kept on a temporary staff contract with little of the job security and half the salary of the “regular” employees, most of them workers in their late 40s or older. After more than a decade of trying to gain regular status, Mr. Horie finally quit — not just the temporary jobs, but Japan altogether. He moved to Taiwan two years ago to study Chinese.Billionaires’ Rise Aids India, and Vice Versa
The ship, the Vanshi, was carrying coal from Indonesia, a two-week trip across the Indian Ocean. India has its own abundant reserves of coal, which raises a question: Why did India need to go so far to get something it already had? For Gautam Adani, the power mogul, the answer was simple: the easiest and most profitable way to meet India’s rising demand for electricity is to avoid the obstacles, divisive political confrontations and practical inefficiencies of India.A Long List of Suckers
Last week, I toured the great Mogul compound of Fatehpur Sikri, near the Taj Mahal. My Indian guide mentioned in passing that in the late 1500s, when Afghanistan was part of India and the Mogul Empire, the Iranian Persians invaded Afghanistan in an effort to “seize the towns of Herat and Kandahar” and a great battle ensued. I had to laugh to myself: “Well, add them to that long list of suckers — countries certain that controlling Afghanistan’s destiny was vital to their national security.”The Clash of Generations
I REALIZE that I should be in Washington watching the debt drama there, but I’ve opted instead to be in Greece to observe the off-Broadway version. There are a lot of things about this global debt tragedy that you can see better from here, in miniature, starting with the raw plot, which no one has described better than the Carnegie Endowment scholar David Rothkopf: “When the cold war ended, we thought we were going to have a clash of civilizations. It turns out we’re having a clash of generations.” Indeed, if there is one sentiment that unites the crises in Europe and America it is a powerful sense of “baby boomers behaving badly” — a powerful sense that the generation that came of age in the last 50 years, my generation, will be remembered most for the incredible bounty and freedom it received from its parents and the incredible debt burden and constraints it left on its kids.Système familial selon Emmanuel Todd
Bad Maps
Update: After contacting the United Nations they have fixed their map production standards Politics makes cartography hard. Any disputed land becomes the focal point of angry rants, complaints of biases, threats, and much more. I have great sympathy for map makers who have to deal with such difficulties. Most of the time, displaying lines of control appeases people except for the radicals. Cartographers usually create a note saying something along the lines of "final status undetermined" in these cases.New Old Map Creates New Questions on Old Issue
Scandinavians may smirk, American Indians may laugh, but a newly announced map may put Chinese explorers all over the world before the time of Christopher Columbus. The map 's owner claims it to be a 1763 copy of an original 1418 map which depicts the entire world. This would make the map based on the maritime travels Zheng He (aka Cheng Ho ). He traveled, at the very least, around the Indian Ocean and even into parts of the on missions for the Chinese Emperor. However, when the Emperor died a new, isolationist regime took over and put itself in a cocoon which it did not emerge from until the twentieth-century.La Turquie au bout du rouleau kémaliste et la France au bout du rouleau gaulliste s'invectivent au nom de leurs torts historiques, éludés de part et d'autre. Chronique d'une rivalité mimétique nous ramenant au seuil du XXe siècle. Et donc aux antipodes de la démocratie moderne souhaitable en Europe...
La France et la Turquie au miroir de leur pathologie nationale
Joseph Samuel Nye, Jr. (born January 19, 1937) is an American political scientist and former Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University . He currently holds the position of University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University [ 1 ] where he has been a member of the faculty since 1964.

