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Articles of the author Michel Rocard
Don't blame it on Rio
PARIS: We are little more than a decade into the twenty-first century, but a terrible precedent has already been set: all of the major international negotiations and cooperative efforts initiated in this century thus far have ended in (...)

27 - 02 - 2012
The storm after the calm
PARIS: Could the financial crisis of 2007-2008 happen again? Since the crisis erupted, there has been no shortage of opportunities — in the form of inadequate conclusions and decisions by officials — to nurture one's anxiety about that (...)

05 - 08 - 2011
The return of the French?
PARIS: How difficult is it to erase one's past as a colonial power? Tunisia has been independent for 55 years, and Côte d'Ivoire for 51 years, yet France is once more playing a decisive role in these countries. Naturally, many Africans are (...)

25 - 04 - 2011
German Reunification and the New Europe
PARIS: I began writing this column shortly after a remarkable anniversary. Oct. 3, 1989, was the effective date for the implementation of a stunning decision taken barely a month earlier. On Aug. 23, East Germany's House of Representatives, the (...)

18 - 10 - 2010
The French way of crisis
PARIS: France is in disarray. According to opinion polls, Nicolas Sarkozy's popularity is at the lowest point seen in decades for a French president. Last week, two ministers resigned, but a parliamentary and media-sustained storm continues, fueled (...)

18 - 07 - 2010
The decline and fall of political Europe
PARIS: A series of decisions taken over the last few years in Europe have alarmed me. The first imposed the rule of unanimity within the European Union for any decision regarding foreign policy or the use of armed force for other than humanitarian (...)

07 - 05 - 2010
The UN to the rescue on climate change
PARIS: The United Nations' General Assembly is the world's only body in which all countries vote, with majority rule prevailing. There is no unanimity requirement or veto in the General Assembly, which might well be why it has not been called upon (...)

24 - 01 - 2010
Rewarding Hope
PARIS: By awarding its Peace Prize for 2009 to Barack Obama, the Nobel Committee took a big risk. Even if Obama is obviously something of a pacifist, the president of the United States leads the world's most powerful military, one that is still (...)

23 - 10 - 2009
Good and bad capitalism
PARIS: The reality of market exchange - direct transactions between merchants and customers - appeared gradually 3,000 or 4,000 years ago. In this novel social relationship, the customer was free to buy whatever he wanted, whenever and from (...)

03 - 08 - 2009
The North Pole in peril
PARIS: Ever since mankind began to map the world, the north and south poles have fascinated us, both poetically and scientifically. But, save for a few whalers and explorers, not many people ever went to have a closer look. The serene stillness of (...)

03 - 03 - 2009
Redesigning capitalism
PARIS: When the heads of state of the world's 20 largest economies come together on short notice, as they just did in Washington, DC, it is clear how serious the current global crisis is. They did not decide much, except to call for improved (...)

28 - 11 - 2008
European social democracy's powerless power
At first glance, European social democracy appears to be in crisis. Gordon Brown's slump in the United Kingdom; the brutal shock of Spain's economic downturn; the difficulties of renewing Socialist leadership in France; the collapse of the (...)

16 - 09 - 2008
The Revolution that Wasn't
It is May 1968. The world, flabbergasted, discovers that France has gone crazy. A general strike, affecting everything except electricity and the press, brings the country to a halt. No developed country has ever known such a situation. Yet it (...)

15 - 05 - 2008
Capitalist meltdown
There is a strange foreboding in the world economy. Newspapers report downward revisions in growth estimates for all the major developed countries: the United States, Germany, France, Japan. No one, it seems, is being left out. Indeed, these (...)

02 - 03 - 2008
Ignoring the Storm
The most recent G7 finance ministers' meeting in October was an utter failure. The only thing that they agreed on was to admonish China to revalue its currency. The yuan's value, while important, is not the central question facing the world economy (...)

26 - 11 - 2007
France Revived
Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidential election in May in part because he attracted a substantial portion of the far right's supporters to his conservative banner. Indeed, the Front National's popular support has fallen from around 15% to 10%, (...)

23 - 08 - 2007
A potentially lethal blow to France's rigid socialists
France has chosen - and it has chosen decisively. The new French president is Nicolas Sarkozy, elected with 53.1 percent of the popular vote, with a turnout, at 84.8 percent, the highest since 1981. This election is particularly rich in lessons. (...)

10 - 05 - 2007
Engage Iran through the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
North Korea's agreement to give up its military nuclear program was a huge success for the international community. Admittedly, the country's dire economic condition and its urgent need for energy made the agreement venal in a way. But North Korea's (...)

04 - 03 - 2007
A socialist named Royal, and surprises looming
The Socialists' anointment of Segolene Royal as their presidential candidate is an important step on the road to the Fifth Republic's eighth presidential election, which is set for April 22, 2007, with a second-round runoff two weeks later. All (...)

21 - 11 - 2006
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