Comment des siècles de refus d'accueillir les personnes persécutées ont ouvert la voie à l'autoritarisme
Un agent fédéral armé monte la garde à la frontière entre les États-Unis et le Mexique, le 4 février. Ross D. Franklin/AP
Le 3 juin 2024, le président Joe Biden annonçait un changement de politique aux implications catastrophiques. À la suite d'un afflux migratoire record à la frontière entre les États-Unis et le Mexique, il a promulgué un décret présidentiel limitant le nombre de (…)

Yoshitaka Ota takes aim at the postcolonial alliance that has bound Tokyo to Taipei through the figure of a common Chinese enemy — a framing crystallised by Shinzo Abe's 2021 declaration that “a Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency” and received warmly in both countries. Ota argues that this rapprochement masks an unfinished reckoning with Japan's imperial past, perpetuating what he calls coloniality: the systemic legacy of colonial rule obscured by present political affairs. Drawing on (…)

On 25 March 2026, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution qualifying transatlantic slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity.” Frédéric Thomas examines the stark North-South divide the vote revealed: 123 Southern states backed the Ghana-led initiative, while Western countries abstained and only the United States, Israel and Argentina voted against. He argues that European hostility reflects not genuine concern about hierarchies of atrocity but resistance to the reparatory justice (…)