Guerre d'hier et d'aujourd'hui
Des guerres postmodernes aux guerres prémodernes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4303253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mohammed Amine Belgaid (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 221 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 251-278 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | L Homme et la société (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-4306 • E-ISSN: 2101-0226 |
| Publisher | CAIRN.INFO (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3917/lhs.221.0251 |
| OpenAlex | W4414228970 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Faced with the hybrid evolution of security threats where interstate war is combined with asymmetric threats, we are called upon to question the new forms of war and the lessons to be learned from today’s wars. To do this, we will firstly question the transformations in the nature of conflicts on the international scene, where we are witnessing on the one hand a return of pre-modern wars, pre-Westphalian wars, deinstitutionalized, resulting from the desire to private and non-state actors and on the other hand to a re-emergence of state conflicts, born from identity and religious assertions or the desire to control strategic resources, which neither nuclear deterrence nor military omnipotence can prevent, but which we can only avoid degeneration into military conflict. Then, in the light of the War in Ukraine, we will focus on the cognitive war that we are waging against ourselves and which must be put to an end by resisting the tyranny of the immediate and the inability to our strategies when it comes to explaining and anticipating reality. In other words, when we find ourselves faced with a strategic vacuum, we take a detour through strategy and security studies in order to escape the logic of ready-to-think strategic thinking. Therefore, to enlighten our thinking on the security crisis that Europe is now facing, we are required to go back to the roots of the carelessness and disbelief of Western governments at the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Guided by the lesson of Merleau-Ponty that we are not free alone, we will conclude our reflection on the paths to take, faced with the return of war, for freedom and peace in common in a world where we cannot be free and safe only collectively. Enlightened by the thought of Merleau-Ponty, but also by the notion of responsibility of Levinas, the work of Bertrand Badie and Philippe Baumard, we propose to think and understand a war which is no longer self-evident
Deterrence theory · Identity (music) · International security · Military strategy · Nuclear strategy · Omnipotence · Order (exchange) · State (computer science) · French Historical and Cultural Studies · French Urban and Social Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |