Elle alla s'asseoir avec son mari et laissa le soin aux forces de sécurité Américaine  de retrouver l'Ambassador. Quand vint enfin un responsable Séoudien de la sécurité en retard de dix minutes, elle baissa les yeux. Elle avait un mépris souverain pour ces princes d'Arabie. Son mari ressentit sa peine et se tint silencieux. Rien, toujours rien...toujours rien... -Viens on va prendre un léger souper, fit son mari soudain à…

Mme Templer l'assistante de l'ambassadeur Américain en Arabie Séoudite, assise avec son mari dans la base militaire américaine de Thahran attendait l'arrivée de l'ambassador. Le Green Tower devait atterrir à 14h exact. Il était 13h53, il restait 7 minutes, elle ne sut pourquoi elle se leva et marcha dans le corridor de la salle d'accueil. Brusquement,  un sentiment obscure la saisit, un coup d'oeil sur sa montre :"13h55" on aurait…

Professor Francis Fukuyama, currently Bernard L Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, was born in Chicago in 1952, and has a BA from Cornell and a doctorate in political science from Harvard. He has worked with the RAND Corporation, the Department of State specialising on the Middle East, and continues to serve on several significant boards such as the President’s Council on Bioethics and the National Endowment for Democracy. Something of the range of his interests can be gauged from the fact that he has written monographs on Russia and the Third World, the consequences of…

marter testing, faster vaccinations and health equity are cornerstones of the 200-page COVID-19 strategy released by US President Joe Biden’s administration on 21 January, as the country surpassed 420,000 deaths due to the coronavirus. The plan pledges to “listen to science” — a shift from the approach of former president Donald Trump, who, at times, politicized scientific evidence and ignored public health recommendations. Many researchers posted messages on Twitter expressing relief that scientific evidence would play a central role in Biden’s plan. They also celebrated the existence of a coordinated national pandemic strategy, complaining that Trump’s failure to enact one impaired testing, tracing and other responses required to tame…

Second, variables such as ‘proximity’, ‘efficacy’, ‘political trust’ and partisanship seem to have a profound effect on cognition and evaluation in matters of corruption. The analyses of de Sousa and Newell suggest that, all other things being equal, the probity of those who are socially distant is likely to be viewed with greater scepticism and judged more harshly when revealed to fall short than is the probity of those whose greater proximity makes them more familiar. The analyses also point to the hypothesis that those confident of the influence they can wield in their interaction with the state are less…