In terms of the conflict between the systems of value first

The fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet empire in 1989 opened an era of transition is to catch the integration movement brought by globalization and the technological revolution, on the one hand, the forces of segmentation resulting from the exacerbation of identity passions and the nationalist resurgence of policies, on the other hand. Successive two moments: the euphoria of the new crazy years of the decade 1990, placed under the sign of the illusions about the end of history and economic cycles; then, since 2001, the return in force of violence and war, the revolutionary uprisings, shocks and economic crises.

Under their apparent opposition point common factors: the difficulty to make the changes in a story which accelerates; the joint rise of global risk and collective impulses on the dynamics of fear and violence; the impotence of the policy; the disunity of democracies before the crossfire of the religious fanaticism of the rivalries of power, the disruption of the hierarchy of nations and continents caused by the hyper of the giants of the South. In short, against all expectations, the end of ideology is translated by a decline of freedom and reason, including the free nations.

After appeared in 2005 on the geopolitical warning signals (Lebanonization of the situation in Iraq, mounted of violence in the Middle East, propagation and extension of the terrorist to London...), diplomatic (abortion constitutional... Europe process) or economic through the imbalance in world trade and environmental with the multiplication of natural disasters , 2006 forced awareness of global problems and the failure of the policies conducted to resolve.

Number of risks are transformed into dangerous certainties in 2006. In terms of the conflict between the systems of value first. Victory impossible and therefore defeat ensured that the United States in Iraq and iraqisation of the Afghanistan, which combines progressive resumption of control of the provinces in the South by the Taliban, the occurrence of attacks suicide in Kandahar and Khost, the loss of legitimacy of Hamid Karzai, the monoculture of the poppy as a unique source of economic development. Radicalization of the Arab-Muslim world, illustrated by the election in Iran of President Ahmadinejad, the victory of Hamas in Palestine, the spiral of political killings in the Lebanon translating resumed control of the country by the Syrian dictatorship, implementation failure of IDF by militiamen from Hezbollah, the conquest of Somalia by the Islamic militia. Tests to repeat with religious fanaticism from the Muhammad cartoons published in the Denmark to the murder of a nun from the Regensburg speech delivered by Benedict XVI through the multiplication of the shows cancelled for cause of intolerance of the théâtre de Voltaire in "Idomeneo" in Berlin. Multiplication of violations of the freedoms for the fight against terrorism in democracies.

Geopolitical plan then. Assertion of power ambitions of China and the Russia, which has recast its state information services and its status on its formidable superpower energy resources mobilized by a soviet capitalist system. Acceleration of the nuclear programmes of the Iran, that is of benefit to the oil shock and the futility of the United States in Iraq, as well as the Korea of the North, first State to cross the nuclear threshold after exiting the NPT. With a shock back in the Japan of Shinzo Abe, who has decided to break with its pacifist doctrine to recreate a Ministry of defence and provide the archipelago of a missile system.

To economic and social, because of the growing opposition to globalization, which is now driven by the South against the re-establishment of economic borders to the North, legacy of shock and bubble chain, to the first rank of which growth in the developed countries. Where the imbalances created by the hyper of Asia including China with urban pollution and the devastation of the environment in the countryside and the fierce competition for control of the access to raw materials and energy. Where the thrust of the isolationist and protectionist sentiments in the US, the blocking of the great market and the regression of the EU under the effect of contagion of the economic pseudo-patriotisme. Hence the rise of populism who use a variety of forms: xenophobia in the country developed, nationalism rampant in the former Soviet empire, coup in Thailand, revival of the well-supplied in the Venezuela, Bolivia, or Ecuador.

Finally, climate change has emerged as a major threat, with the information campaign launched by Al Gore and the conclusions of the Stern report, which shows that one sixth of humanity is threatened on the horizon of the century, with the key 200 million refugees and a puncture potential of 5 to 20 of global GDP.

Parallel awareness of the magnitude of the problems and the weakness of the results has led in 2006 to many political changes. The most important intervened in the United States, where the mid-term elections drew death of the Bush administration and neo-conservatism. United Kingdom, Tony Blair has been the collateral victim of the debacle in Iraq and was compelled to retirement forced by his party. In Italy, Romano Prodi has prevailed of extreme accuracy while in France, the 2007 election is committed under the sign of the renewal of the political class and rupture. At the same time, signs of revival appeared, whether it is confirmation of the release of deflation of the Japan or the restart of the Germany which is set to regain the leadership of the European Union.

After the failure of the indolent irénisme of the 1990s, after the bankruptcy of the response of the United States to the terrorist attacks of 2001 as the output of the history and the appeasement by Europe, unilateral 2007 can initiate the establishment of a new deal, which allows to obtain better results in the management of the problems of the world: the disarmament of the religious fanaticismthe prevention of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the regulation of globalisation and the speculative bubbles that it generates, management of ageing and population movements, the fight against climate change.

The key lies in the rediscovery of the common values shared by peoples beyond the diversity of cultures and institutions, in joint work for the 21st century instruments and standards adapted in the Refoundation of the unity of the democracies. The West is set to lose the monopoly of democracy and the market, which is logical and happy. So far, the United States and Europe retain the right of primogeniture in the defence of freedom, tempered in the resistance to empires and ideologies of the 20th century. At them to be credible, in rediscovering and ensuring the primacy of the interests of Europe the States composing, the primacy of the interests of the West of the United States and Europe, the primacy of the interests of freedom and reason on the West.