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Internationalism No. 86, April 2026 Page 2 The joint attack by Washington and Tel Aviv on Iran, which began on February 28th and was dubbed Operation Epic Fury by the Americans, has been described as an epic gamble by the vast majority of international commentators, starting with the decision to eliminate Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader and a key figure for Shia Islam in Iran and beyond. While Tel Aviv is said to be intent on degrading Iran's military capabilities, and thus weakening it in the long term, what motivates US intervention, even according to Israeli sources, is regime change : something akin to the script followed in Venezuela at the start of the year. However, according to Le Monde , Washington's approach amounts to an exercise in strategic improvisation , owing both to the unilateral decision to attack and to the contradictory series of justifications put forward to l...

Americanism and Europeanism in the Crisis in the World Order Internationalism No. 81, November 2025 Page 1 What can be said about the show diplomacy which has become the hallmark of the American presidency, and was spectacularly demonstrated in Donald Trump's performances at the Israeli Knesset and at the Peace 2025 ceremony in Sharm El Sheikh? The terrain is treacherous, given how it combines the new forms of television and social media democracy and the historical characteristics of Americanism , with the structural changes of Atlantic decline and the resulting dynamics of the global contention. Although it is tinged with a certain despondency, it is worth revisiting the description given in July in L’Opinion by Frédéric Charillon, former head of the Strategic Research Institute at the Military School and lecturer at ESSEC, a French grande école of economic sciences with Jesuit roots. In his view, the days of classical diplomacy are o...