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The Political Legitimacy of What?

Media coverage of the Duclert report and legitimisation of armed groups in Africa: a quintessential pharmakon

Author: Pascal Cohet 19 June 2021

The media coverage of the Duclert report illustrates one of the basic axioms of Cindynics: the pharmakon principle, which states that any action aiming at ...

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Duclert Report: Systemic Disparities

Ethnicist interpretive framework vs ethnic identity cards

Author: Pascal Cohet 08 June 2021

After noticing the absence of a description of US post-Cold War peacekeeping policy in the Duclert report, which constitutes a topological disparity with ...

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Duclert Report: Topological Disparities

The omission of PDD 25

Author: Pascal Cohet 06 June 2021

In a previous post, we presented the different stages of the deconflictualisation process enabled by the cindynical method. Before reducing the prospective ...

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Twitter in Nigeria: Corporate Censorship and Cybercolonialism

Big-tech self-regulation: a neocolonial concept

Author: Pascal Cohet 05 June 2021

President Buhari was censored by Twitter after posting a controversial message on June 1. In response, Twitter was suspended in Nigeria. Twitter then ...

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Disparities and Divergences: From Middle-East to Rwanda

The construction of deconflictualisation

Author: Pascal Cohet 03 June 2021

Second Order Cindynics rely on a strict modeling that sometimes seems difficult to grasp. In summary, considering subjectivities leads to situation ...

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Killer Autonomous Weapons in Africa: Media Delay and Degeneracy

Two or three months later....

Author: IFREI 02 June 2021

Last March we reported the use of Turkish killer drones in autonomous mode in Libya. This information was initially noticed on March 17 by Laurent Lagneau ...

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Rwanda: Publication of the Duclert and Muse Reports

The purpose of the cindynical hyperspace

Author: Pascal Cohet 05 May 2021

The publication of the Duclert report and of the final version of the Muse report illustrates the interest of the notion of cindynic hyperspace, which ...

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A Short Story of Cindynical Concepts

From ambiguity to resilience

Author: IFREI 21 April 2021

Since the early 90s, cindynical concepts have been constructed gradually. The cindynical vocabulary has also evolved, which can sometimes be confusing if ...

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Vulnerability, Resilience and Social Darwinism

No, Cindynics do not justify social Darwinism, quite the contrary.

Author: Pascal Cohet 25 March 2021

In a book devoted to the ambiguities of the term resilience, Magali Reghezza-Zitt and Samuel Rufat note that this term, initially used in the fields of ...

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Turkish Killer Autonomous Weapons Are Used in Africa, UN Report Says

Still no ban on killer robots, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt asks Biden to reject the ban

Author: IFREI 19 March 2021

The UN Panel of Experts on Libya has just published a report denouncing the total ineffectiveness of the arms embargo imposed on Libya in 2011 by the ...

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COVID-19 Vaccine: The Failure of the Pasteur Institute

Second-order Cindynics, conflictuality reduction and operational efficiency

Author: IFREI 17 March 2021

The announcement of the termination of the Pasteur Institute's main COVID-19 vaccine candidate dismayed the French. At first, it seemed relevant to ...

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2019 Failed Coup in Gabon: Probabilities vs Cindynics

Construction of collective action: third-order MRC modeling and power assessments

Author: IFREI 12 March 2021

In a previous post, we described how going beyond probabilistic approaches enabled the mastery of propensities to emerge as the central concept of the ...

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