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Le présent texte est une version partiellement révisée et complétée de l’article publié dans Sejong Focus le 4 septembre 2026.

L’un des principaux facteurs susceptibles de déterminer l’évolution de la péninsule coréenne au second semestre 2026 est la volonté de plus en plus ouvertement affichée par le président américain Donald Trump de renouer avec la diplomatie des sommets avec Kim Jong-un, président de la Commission des affaires d’État de la Corée du Nord. Le 16 août, en ordonnant une réduction substantielle des exercices militaires conjoints entre la Corée du Sud et les États-Unis, Donald Trump a directement évoqué sa « très bonne relation » avec Kim Jong-un ; trois jours plus tard, il a publiquement déclaré vouloir le rencontrer avant la fin de l’année. Ces déclarations dépassent le registre de la simple rhétorique : elles montrent que la Maison-Blanche a inscrit la possibilité d’un sommet à son agenda diplomatique concret.

L’article Le sommet Corée du Nord–États-Unis de 2026 : que négocier et que préserver ? est apparu en premier sur IRIS.

This volume examines Greenland’s challenging paths towards independence and explores the fundamental tension between Greenland’s aspirations for sovereignty and the geopolitical realities of Arctic strategic competition. The book provides a comprehensive framework for understanding Greenland’s strategic options through detailed examination of its socio-economic, foreign, security, and defence policy, the Kingdom–Greenland relationship, and external pressures and offers from major powers.

This perspective article addresses the role of systemic resilience in circular economy (CE) debates. It underlines resilience as an important feature and proposes ways of how CE metrics and decision-making could be better aligned.

This perspective article addresses the role of systemic resilience in circular economy (CE) debates. It underlines resilience as an important feature and proposes ways of how CE metrics and decision-making could be better aligned.

This perspective article addresses the role of systemic resilience in circular economy (CE) debates. It underlines resilience as an important feature and proposes ways of how CE metrics and decision-making could be better aligned.

Nach einem Hamas-Angriff, bei dem israelische Soldaten getötet wurden, lässt Premier Netanjahu das Westjordanland abriegeln. Was bedeutet das für die Menschen und für die Wahl am Dienstag?

Am 27. Oktober wählt Israel sein neues Parlament. Das Land ist gespalten, die Bevölkerung heterogen. Wer für wen abstimmt, erklärt Nahostexperte Peter Lintl.

Kanada strebt ein Assoziierungsabkommen mit der Europäischen Union an. Wird die EU in unruhigen Zeiten für demokratische Staaten wieder interessant?

Israel und die USA haben Iran innerhalb von acht Monaten zweimal militärisch angegriffen. Die Militäroperationen haben das iranische Atomprogramm zwar zurück­geworfen, das Proliferationsrisiko aber nicht beseitigt. Noch immer verfügt die Islamische Repu­blik über das technische Wissen, das Spaltmaterial und die grundlegende Anreicherungskapazität, das Atomprogramm wieder auszuweiten. Derweil ist der Anreiz in Teheran für den Bau von Nuklearwaffen gestiegen. Darauf deutet auch der iranische Diskurs hin, in dem die atomare Bewaffnung von einer rand­ständigen Forderung zu einem breiten politischen Anliegen geworden ist. In ihrer Nuklear­­doktrin setzt die Islamische Republik nicht länger auf Latenz, sondern gezielt auf Ambiguität. Obwohl das Proliferationsrisiko hoch bleibt, ist es den USA nicht gelun­gen, in laufenden Verhandlungen Fortschritte zu erzielen. Das macht ein ergänzendes europäisches Engagement umso dringlicher.

• The Middle East is on European Union’s security agenda, not yet in its new strategy. On 28 September 2026, the High Representative grouped Hormuz, the Bab el-Mandeb and the Black Sea as “critical maritime choke points”; the EEAS scoping paper of March 2026 on the new strategy named no southern region.
• European exposure to the region is direct. Migration, organised crime, energy and connectivity tie European economies and domestic politics to the region.
• Europe is present across the region but codifies downwards and ex post. Its missions and frameworks each draw their own map of the region, and southern shocks are answered with what 27 governments can agree upon. Over Hormuz, the EU produced sanctions and an energy letter; the naval response came from a coalition outside the EU.C
• European divergences make improvisation costly. ASPIDES has relied on a handful of contributors, and past naval operations saw member states suspend or withdraw their participation; the response must be agreed in advance.
• The two theatres are one contest, and the method allowing earlier action already exists. A strategy that files the South under energy costs and migration weakens its own eastern priority. The integrated approach, defined by the Council in 2018, prescribes regional and preventive action; the EU should apply it to the Middle East.
• Five recommendations for the strategy. Name the Middle East and the Gulf as the southern dimension of the eastern priority. Set regional objectives to 2030 and place the existing frameworks under them. Make anticipation a principle and give every task its means. Operationalise Article 44 TEU so that willing member states act inside the EU framework rather than beside it. Make solidarity and partnership direction-neutral, from the Emergency Security Protocol and EU-NATO cooperation to a standing EU-GCC security mechanism, to be launched at the rescheduled EU-GCC summit.

Read here in pdf the Policy paper by Andreas C. Hatzidiakos, Research Fellow, ELIAMEP and Constantine Capsaskis, Research Fellow, ELIAMEP.

 

Drei Wochen nach Einführung des Tankrabatts zieht Wettbewerbsexperte Tomaso Duso, Leiter der Abteilung Unternehmen und Märkte im Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), Zwischenbilanz. Täglich verfolgt der Tankrabatt-Monitor des DIW Berlin die Preisentwicklung für Benzin und Diesel ...

Mit dem »Sicherheitsschild der Amerikas« (Shield of the Americas) haben die USA eine Initiative auf den Weg gebracht, die Maßnahmen zur Drogen­bekämpfung, zur militärischen Zusammenarbeit und zur Veränderung des geopolitischen Wettbewerbs in einem einzigen Rahmen verbindet. Die Trump-Administration verfolgt damit ein hemi­sphärisches Ordnungskonzept unter eigener Führung, das zugleich auf die ideologische Verbundenheit der Partner setzt, um die Kooperation im multilateralen Rahmen zu vertiefen und Lieferketten sowie die Rohstoffversorgung zu sichern. Es bleiben jedoch viele Fragezeichen hinsichtlich der Verbindlichkeit der Vereinbarung und der Effektivität der Kooperation, da kein Aktionsplan entwickelt wurde und auch keine nachfolgenden Implementierungsschritte festgelegt worden sind. Außen­politisch binden sich Lateinamerika und die Karibik damit zwar stärker an Washington, doch werden wichtige Staaten der Region auch weiterhin Europa als Diversi­fizierungspartner wirtschaftlich und politisch in den Blick nehmen.

La polémique sur la paternité de la Coupe d’Afrique des nations 2019 vient de connaître un nouvel épisode. Invité d’une émission sportive de la chaîne […]

L’article Meziane Ighil contredit Madjer : « Belmadi a gagné la CAN 2019 seul » (vidéo) est apparu en premier sur .

Censuré pendant des décennies, le documentaire historique Octobre à Paris ressort en salles françaises ce mercredi 21 octobre. Tourné par Jacques Panijel au lendemain du […]

L’article Massacre du 17 octobre 1961 : le documentaire censuré «Octobre à Paris» retrouve les salles françaises est apparu en premier sur .

Le directeur général de la digitalisation au ministère de la Santé, Mouhoub Messaoudi, a révélé aujourd’hui le lancement officiel de la phase expérimentale du service […]

L’article Consulter un spécialiste sans se déplacer : cette wilaya donne le coup d’envoi de la « télémédecine » est apparu en premier sur .

Over the past two decades, energy subsidy reforms have increasingly gained importance as mitigation measures to fight climate change. Still, many countries subsidize fossil energy consumption, and reforms are often short-lived. This paper presents harmonized cross-country data on the design of energy subsidy reforms, obtained from a structured literature review of both implemented and failed consumption subsidy reforms between 1978 and 2021. This standardized data enables the identification and validation of key design characteristics, including the motivation for reform, the use of gradual approaches, communication strategies, pricing mechanisms, and social protection measures, as well as their use in implementing reforms. The data highlight significant regional heterogeneity and emphasize the importance of context-specificity in shaping reform designs. The study also demonstrates the connection between key aspects of reform design and reform implementation, as well as associations with subsidy levels. It offers lessons for middle-income countries, especially those planning to implement carbon pricing policies. Lastly, this paper lays the groundwork for future research to explore these factors in greater detail; one avenue is to link design characteristics and political economy factors.

Over the past two decades, energy subsidy reforms have increasingly gained importance as mitigation measures to fight climate change. Still, many countries subsidize fossil energy consumption, and reforms are often short-lived. This paper presents harmonized cross-country data on the design of energy subsidy reforms, obtained from a structured literature review of both implemented and failed consumption subsidy reforms between 1978 and 2021. This standardized data enables the identification and validation of key design characteristics, including the motivation for reform, the use of gradual approaches, communication strategies, pricing mechanisms, and social protection measures, as well as their use in implementing reforms. The data highlight significant regional heterogeneity and emphasize the importance of context-specificity in shaping reform designs. The study also demonstrates the connection between key aspects of reform design and reform implementation, as well as associations with subsidy levels. It offers lessons for middle-income countries, especially those planning to implement carbon pricing policies. Lastly, this paper lays the groundwork for future research to explore these factors in greater detail; one avenue is to link design characteristics and political economy factors.

Over the past two decades, energy subsidy reforms have increasingly gained importance as mitigation measures to fight climate change. Still, many countries subsidize fossil energy consumption, and reforms are often short-lived. This paper presents harmonized cross-country data on the design of energy subsidy reforms, obtained from a structured literature review of both implemented and failed consumption subsidy reforms between 1978 and 2021. This standardized data enables the identification and validation of key design characteristics, including the motivation for reform, the use of gradual approaches, communication strategies, pricing mechanisms, and social protection measures, as well as their use in implementing reforms. The data highlight significant regional heterogeneity and emphasize the importance of context-specificity in shaping reform designs. The study also demonstrates the connection between key aspects of reform design and reform implementation, as well as associations with subsidy levels. It offers lessons for middle-income countries, especially those planning to implement carbon pricing policies. Lastly, this paper lays the groundwork for future research to explore these factors in greater detail; one avenue is to link design characteristics and political economy factors.