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  • February 26, 2024February 26, 2024

Just for the Record. Entry four: European responsibility for the world

The gap between the Kantian garden and the Hobbesian jungle is growing. How should the inhabitants of the Kantian garden cope with the threat of the jungle? The most primitive way is to build a…

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  • February 12, 2024February 12, 2024

Just for the Record. Entry three: European responsibility for peace

In October 2022, Josep Borrell, speaking on the occasion of the launch of the pilot program of the EU Diplomatic Academy in Bruges, likened Europe to a wonderful garden where everything blooms, everything is trimmed…

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  • January 29, 2024January 29, 2024

Just for the Record. Entry two: The time of global upheavals

The global upheaval did not start yesterday. Some even associate it with the spectre of a third world war. The new world war also in some diagnoses started not yesterday. Admittedly, without a spectacular outbreak…

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  • January 15, 2024January 15, 2024

Just for the Record. Entry one: New Universalism and World Politics

After the Russian aggression against Ukraine, Oksana Zabuzhko reproachfully criticized Western intellectuals for recommending wrong books to read. Indeed, they suggested Harari, Pinker, Friedman, Ferguson, Fukuyama. And one should rather read again Carl Schmitt and…

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  • December 18, 2023December 18, 2023

My final advice to future diplomatic negotiators: have fun, enjoy what you do!

In conclusion, a few minor and personal comments. Diplomacy is a profession that can be a lot of fun. And participating in diplomatic negotiations can be a source of absolute fun. If someone does not…

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  • November 20, 2023December 18, 2023

To future diplomatic negotiators, advice number ten: remember that negotiations don’t end when an agreement is reached

Negotiations come to an end. There is joy (in some people less of it, in others more), there is a mutual exchange of congratulations. There is satisfaction, but there is also fatigue, because the adrenaline…

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