Publications
387 published articles
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Defense & SecurityTungsten: Washington Takes a Stake in Mineral Security
The United States is no longer simply trying to buy critical minerals. By committing $450 million to Elmet Group while securing up to $2 billion in potential purchases for the national stockpile, Washington is building a tungsten supply chain in which the state finances supply, organizes sourcing and guarantees part of the demand.
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Defense & SecuritySyria: Russia retains its Mediterranean foothold
Russia no longer holds the position in Syria that it enjoyed under Bashar al-Assad. But it has not left.
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Environment & ClimateUnited States: Carbon Is Leaving the Federal Regulatory Framework
Washington is no longer simply easing the constraints imposed on power plants.
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MarketsFuel Prices: Who Really Benefits From the Increase?
In France, fuel prices are once again approaching exceptionally high levels even though crude oil remains below its peaks for the year.
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AfricaDangote: The Refinery Faces the Market
It took nearly $20 billion, more than a decade of construction and an industrial ambition rarely seen on the continent to build the Dangote refinery.
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EuropeUK–EU: Coming Back Without Rejoining
Ten years after the referendum that was supposed to restore Britain's control over its laws, borders and economic choices, London is once again negotiating with Brussels to reduce certain barriers, align certain rules and rebuild common mechanisms. It would be tempting to see this as Brexit in reverse.
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MarketsGlobal Stock Markets: What 2026 Is Rewarding
At first glance, 2026 looks like a good year for equities. Wall Street reached new records during the summer, Europe extended the momentum that began in 2025, and several Asian markets benefited from accelerating technology investment.
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PoliticsFrance: The Presidential Election After Macron
For ten years, French politics has revolved around Emmanuel Macron. He has been both its centre of gravity and its principal target.
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GeopoliticsOil: Yanbu’s Countdown
For a few days, storage tanks can make it look as though a pipeline is still operating.
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TechnologyLocal AI: The Data Center Now Fits on a Desk
For years, the cloud gave artificial intelligence an almost self-evident geography. The most powerful models lived in data centers, behind clusters of GPUs, high-bandwidth networks and levels of investment that only a limited number of actors could sustain. The personal computer received the result: an interface, a few seconds of waiting and an answer calculated somewhere else. That division has not disappeared. But an experiment conducted this week on a Mac Studio suggests that it is becoming less clear-cut than it was even recently.
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North AmericaSeptember 11: The World Twenty-Five Years Later
On September 11, 2001, nineteen men hijacked four passenger aircraft in the United States. Two struck the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, a third hit the Pentagon, and the fourth crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers fought back.
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EconomicsFrance: When the Exception Becomes the Norm
For several years, the French economy has moved from one crisis to another while giving the impression that it was better at resisting shocks than generating growth.