Alexandre Leroy

Thawing ice in the Arctic region has opened a path for considerable economic opportunities in terms of commercial routes and resource extraction. Unsurprisingly, geo-strategic interests have quickly stepped in. Arctic countries, namely the…
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The first article of this two-part series was focused on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) defensive policies to ensure the regime’s stability. A recent example has recently surfaced in which Chinese police asked Uighurs in France to…
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Editor’s Note: This article is the first of a two-part series on the causes of the Chinese Communist Party’s ideological fight with Western political norms and values, and its battlefields. In Part I, Leroy examines the CCP's ideological…
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In mid-October, about 2,300 delegates will gather in Beijing for the 19th Party Congress. Held every 5 years, the Party Congress has three main functions. The first one is to set broad policy guidelines and agenda for the next five years.…
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In 2013, a survey revealed that 87% of the respondents agreed that France needed a true chief to put things back in order. This need for a strong executive is well-entrenched in French political DNA. Jean Garrigues, a French historian, even…
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At the Munich Security Conference, Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, called for a “post-West world order.” It was a euphemism for what the Kremlin envisions for the future; a future that Russia is actively working to…
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Global uncertainty has reached exceptional levels following the election of Donald Trump as president of the world's most powerful country. He has promised a withdrawal from multilateral trade institutions and partnerships like NAFTA or…
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The five million people of Norway are currently sitting on a great pile of cash thanks to their sovereign wealth fund, in charge of investing abroad the income generated by the country’s oil and gas sales. Although “publicly-owned,” the…
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