{"id":70072,"date":"2008-07-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2008\/07\/26\/la-non-escale-de-bruxelles\/"},"modified":"2008-07-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T00:00:00","slug":"la-non-escale-de-bruxelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2008\/07\/26\/la-non-escale-de-bruxelles\/","title":{"rendered":"La non-escale de Bruxelles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>On l&rsquo;a vu et on l&rsquo;a dit, le voyage de Barack Obama dans le reste du monde (ROW) n&rsquo;\u00e9tait pas vraiment calibr\u00e9 pour des projets d&rsquo;information et de d\u00e9lib\u00e9ration politiques. Une appr\u00e9ciation politique de ce voyage inspire donc diverses critiques. Ce fut le cas le <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewashingtonnote.com\/archives\/2008\/07\/obamas_europe_b\/#comments\" class=\"gen\">16 juillet<\/a>, lorsque Steve Clemons, de <em>The Washington Note<\/em>, s&rsquo;\u00e9tonnait que Obama n&rsquo;ait pas song\u00e9 \u00e0 faire une escale \u00e0 Bruxelles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>I&rsquo;m worried. While some have become distracted by a silly discussion inside Germany on whether Obama should speak at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and whether he should defer to Angela Merkel, most seem to have forgotten that Obama&rsquo;s celebrated European trip does not include Brussels.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>He&rsquo;s hitting France, Germany, the UK  and all of that is good.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>But Brussels is the capital of Europe. It is the promise of what Europe is struggling to become that makes Brussels a vital stopover point. Obama is visiting some of the key, strategic nodes that give Europe some of its legs  but the trip looks like an Old Europe trip, not a new one.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Perhaps to teach us a lesson, we should have more world leaders visit San Francisco, Houston, Boston, New York, Chicago  and just skip Washington, D.C. It&rsquo;s not a bad idea come to think of it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>But seriously, for Obama to neglect Brussels and the vital significance of what is going on in the evolving institutional heart of Europe may amplify doubt about him and his strategic template. Long ago, I broke the story that Senator Obama had not chaired any policy hearings of the European Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I thought that this got overplayed by some others  but still, it raised questions about the status of Europe in Obama&rsquo;s world view.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>This trip was and remains an opportunity to show that he has studied up and that he gets the fact that when it comes to Iran, Russia, China, the global economy, oil and energy strategies, and more  working with Europe behind the scenes and overtly is not optional.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tMalgr\u00e9 cet excellent avis, Obama n&rsquo;a pas chang\u00e9 son programme. Pas de Bruxelles. Qu&rsquo;en a-t-on dit \u00e0 Bruxelles, dans les diverses et prolif\u00e9rantes institutions europ\u00e9ennes? \u00ab<em>Pas grand&rsquo;chose, <\/em>remarque une source europ\u00e9enne. <em>La tourn\u00e9e d&rsquo;Obama est pass\u00e9e assez inaper\u00e7ue. En fait, on ne s&rsquo;y est gu\u00e8re int\u00e9ress\u00e9. Aujourd&rsquo;hui, \u00e0 Bruxelles, le grand sujet reste la Russie<\/em>\u00bb,  c&rsquo;est-\u00e0-dire la <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article.php?art_id=5286\" class=\"gen\">proposition<\/a> Medvedev.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tEffectivement, la chose est plus que jamais au cur de toutes les pr\u00e9occupations. M\u00eame l&rsquo;OTAN s&rsquo;int\u00e9resse \u00e0 la proposition du pr\u00e9sident russe. On en discutera au si\u00e8ge de l&rsquo;Alliance lundi. D&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, il appara\u00eet que des contacts ont \u00e9t\u00e9 pris entre Europ\u00e9ens et Russes, \u00e0 l&rsquo;initiative des Europ\u00e9ens, pour explorer la proposition russe. Il est possible que des rencontres pr\u00e9paratoires aient lieu \u00e0 la rentr\u00e9e apr\u00e8s que les Russes auront pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 leurs propositions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tDe ce point de vue des relations avec la Russie, il y a des divergences potentielles graves entre Am\u00e9ricains et Europ\u00e9ens. Quel que soit l&rsquo;\u00e9lu de novembre 2008, il est difficile d&rsquo;en attendre une bonne volont\u00e9 excessive \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9gard des Russes. Obama n&rsquo;a pas d&rsquo;avis sur la question mais son principal conseiller en politique ext\u00e9rieure, Zbigniew Brzezinski, est d&rsquo;une hostilit\u00e9 visc\u00e9rale \u00e0 l&rsquo;encontre de la Russie. McCain, lui, a d\u00e9j\u00e0 montr\u00e9 une hostilit\u00e9 personnelle dans le m\u00eame sens, qu&rsquo;on retrouve aussi bien dans son projet de Ligue des D\u00e9mocraties que, cela va sans dire, dans sa proposition d&rsquo;exclure la Russie du G-8.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLa volont\u00e9 g\u00e9n\u00e9rale et partag\u00e9e, aux USA, notamment chez les deux candidats, et en Europe,  de r\u00e9tablir de bonnes relations transatlantiques (s&rsquo;\u00e9taient-elles d\u00e9t\u00e9rior\u00e9es?) est une belle et bonne chose. Mais il y a les r\u00e9alit\u00e9s, c&rsquo;est-\u00e0-dire quelques solides dossiers de divergences. Les relations avec la Russie constituent sans aucun doute l&rsquo;un des plus s\u00e9rieux.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t(&#8230;D&rsquo;autre part quoique dans le m\u00eame sens, en attendant l&rsquo;\u00e9lection de novembre, une autre possibilit\u00e9 d&rsquo;interf\u00e9rences dans ces relations transatlantiques se trouve dans la situation g\u00e9orgienne. Une hypoth\u00e8se d\u00e9sagr\u00e9able en vogue dans les milieux europ\u00e9ens est que, dans le cas d&rsquo;une aggravation de la tension, voire d&rsquo;un conflit avec la Russie, l&rsquo;administration Bush prenne une initiative concr\u00e8te de soutien de la G\u00e9orgie qui placerait ses alli\u00e9s europ\u00e9ens, qui ne veulent surtout pas se laisser entra\u00eener au c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la G\u00e9orgie, dans une difficile position.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><p>\tMis en ligne le 26 juillet 2008 \u00e0 09H44<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On l&rsquo;a vu et on l&rsquo;a dit, le voyage de Barack Obama dans le reste du monde (ROW) n&rsquo;\u00e9tait pas vraiment calibr\u00e9 pour des projets d&rsquo;information et de d\u00e9lib\u00e9ration politiques. Une appr\u00e9ciation politique de ce voyage inspire donc diverses critiques. Ce fut le cas le 16 juillet, lorsque Steve Clemons, de The Washington Note, s&rsquo;\u00e9tonnait&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3631,398,5519,4063,2858,6208,2730,1205],"class_list":["post-70072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-bruxelles","tag-europe","tag-georgie","tag-mccain","tag-medvedev","tag-obama","tag-russie","tag-transatlantique"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}