Meeting with Nicolas Tenzer

The Centre de Recherches Europes-Eurasie-CREE (Inalco), with the support of the Ukrainian Institute, is honored to invite you to meet Nicolas Tenzer around his book Our war: crime and oblivion, for strategic thinking, Éditions de l'Observatoire.

Book presentation

While yesterday's certainties obscure tomorrow's risks, Nicolas Tenzer proposes an indispensable strategy for moving forward in a world that is, in fact, at war. Notre guerre is not simply a book on geopolitics; it is a call to lucidity, a cartography of the heavy illusions of our vulnerability. In this way, Nicolas Tenzer does more than simply diagnose the ills of our times: he proposes a rigorous and pragmatic roadmap for navigating a world where war has become our present. The author immerses himself in the urgency of a time when international law is increasingly being destroyed, and weakened democracies are losing their foothold in the face of regimes that do not shrink from mass crime. Russia's war against Ukraine is not an anomaly, but the reflection of a world in the grip of a systematic and insidious revisionism. Tenzer exposes the deception of soothing policies, revealing a reality that is frightening but indispensable to grasp. Drawing lessons from history and past strategic blunders, he offers an action plan for a new war diplomacy, underpinned by a relentless analysis of current developments: Russian criminal enterprises, Chinese ambitions, conflagrations in the Middle East and attacks on democracies. It highlights the idea that our world requires an uncompromising grasp of the forces at work. We would otherwise be condemned to repeat the mistakes that led to catastrophe.

Organizer

Irina Dmytrychyn (CREE, Inalco)

Contact

etudes-ukrainiennes@outlook.fr