1936-2026: 90 years of the magazine “Foreign Policy”

[Extrait] “There are lively nonagenarians… Out of respect, we will not describe this way Foreign policy : yet she is there, more lively than ever, observing, deciphering our worlds. She has seen worlds pass by. From the 1930s of the 20th century, with open or promised conflicts, the emerging disturbances in the south or even the projects for European agreements, until the threshold of the 1930s of the 21st century, around parallel, comparable obsessions: the war that is coming or is here , changes in power relations, a Europe uncertain of itself, a Middle East still on fire…
Same obsessions, same observers, same helplessness? No doubt, in that the instruments wielded on the international scene have not fundamentally changed, resources of human inventiveness: strength, wealth, cunning, diplomacy and provisional agreements… This is the task of Foreign policy than to articulate these two levels of knowledge: the permanence of international challenges and their metamorphoses following the evolution of human societies. […] » Dominique Davideditor-in-chief of Foreign policy.

[Extrait] “À la fin de la neuvième décennie de Foreign policyit is important, particularly for Europe, to lucidly agree on the main features of the history of the international system since the birth of our journal in 1936…
A solid European Union and not aligned with the old or new great powers is in the interest of its inhabitants, and also appears to be a necessary condition for the rebalancing of the international system as a whole. We will only achieve this by having carried out a lucid examination of our strengths and our weaknesses in order to clearly define our new path.
I invite the readers of Foreign policy for the next special issue of the 100th anniversary of the review, which will also in a sense be that of Ifri, with the hope that it can be to the glory of the Old Continent.”, Thierry de Montbrialfounder and executive president of Ifri, editorial director of Foreign policy.

SUMMARY OF THIS ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

Editorialby Dominique David (read the editorial)
 

A WORLD TO LIVE
The foundations – demographics, food, health – and the frameworks – technological dynamics, faiths and beliefs – of international coexistence, in a time of fundamental changes.

The population of the world XXIᵉ centuryby Hervé Le Bras

Food security: how to feed the world’s population?by Akiko Suwa-EisenmannÂ

From African health sovereignty to global health securityby Jean Kaseya

Energy in the era of the new geopoliticsby Laura Cozzi and Thomas Spencer

How technology is reshaping the world orderby Anu Bradford (read the article)

Religion, moral order and resacralization of international politicsby Peter Mandaville
 

A WORLD TO GOVERN
How to articulate interests and strategies: the weight of power, the role of law, the weight of inequalities, the regulation of trade, how to manage armed conflicts and what role for Europe? HAS

A new path for Europeby Thierry de Montbrial (read the article)

Thoughts on the Darkening of the Worldby Jean-Marie Guéhenno (read the article)

Law in the international orderpar Philippa Webb et Daisy Peterson

Crisis-proof arms controlpar Patricia M. Lewis

War and technology: towards a military revolution?par Hew Strachan 

Gouverner le commerce mondial : Ploutos, Midas or Agnostos ?by Jean-Marie Paugam

Gouvernabilité, inégalités et État-providencepar Anton Hemerijck et Waltraud Schelkle

Finance and the world: a European perspectiveby Sylvie Goulard
 

UN MONDE À RÊVERÂ
Beyond political and diplomatic strategies, what can creators, writers from all universes and all continents, tell us about the future of the world? From the narrowest communities to the broadest horizons?

The jungleat Tash Aw

A time capsule. The adventures of the future in Russiapar Mikhaïl Chichkine

Speech by the 48th President of the United States of America, Davos, January 25, 2029by Philippe Claudel

Intimate mapspar Velibor ”Oli”‡

A hundred years of uncertaintyby David Diop

L’École Tshakapeshby Naomi Fontaine

The future has arrivedby Leila Guerriero

A small valleyby Charif Majdalani

L’année de son réveilcouple Vikas Swarup