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Brussard, Stéphane
3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Russia pulls out of the CFE treaty
Stéphane Bussard, writing in an editorial, puts the Russian decision in context. "Vladimir Putin isn't satisfied with words, he has to act. In deciding Saturday to suspend the application of the CFE, the Russian President has sent a warning to the United States and Europe. He attacks a weighty symbol: the treaty in question marks the end of the Cold War and assumes a symbolic importance to European eyes. The Kremlin's power play, which even Mikhail Gorbachev thinks is justified because it will open up discussions, isn't, however, a return to the Cold War. Russia isn't as powerful as the Soviet Union was, nor does it have the same ideology. But, with a hurting ego, humiliated by American power and aspirations to hegemony, it is re-establishing itself as a counter-balance."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Security Policy / Crises / War, » Russia, » Europe, » Global
Boris Yeltsin - a democrat of transition
In an interview conducted by Stéphane Brussard, Eric Hoesli, expert on Russia, puts two radically different perceptions of the late Yeltsin into perspective. "For westerners, he was the first president of a democratic Russia, the one who brought several freedoms and allowed a return of market forces through a process of liberalisation. For the Russians, however, he is the symbol of the nightmare years, of the collapse of the economy and the cataclysmic collapse of the empire. He is synonymous with national humiliation. ... He was carried by History, which gave him a role that nobody could really have played properly because the upheaval was so great. He was not able to guarantee the transition. At times he followed the movement, at times he sinned through optimism, at times through naivety. With him, Russia was not strong enough to resist the outside world. It lost its international standing and made enormous concessions: concerning NATO enlargement to the east and the Balkans."
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Europe's participation in the UN mission in Lebanon
Stephane Brussard considers how the international community has been prevaricating. "Setting up a peackeeping force shows that the United Nations are willing to agree to a hobbled security compromise for the sake of a clear conscience and to better avoid seeking political solutions to the crisis. It shows that national egos can deal better with painless, short-term solutions that have no further effect ... It should nevertheless be said that creating a peacekeeping force able to intervene against the Hizbullah militia or Israeli military is very unpopular in national political opinions. There is today no state that is willing to send in fighting troops to occupy the ground. Yet it is there that the Hizbullah problem must be settled."
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