“When America withdraws, the world will tremble”

There are few disciplines as uncertain and full of hazards as that of geostrategy analyst. Because, at the slightest error of judgment or false prediction, all the experts, in this field which has many, overwhelm you. In this exercise, François Heisbourg rarely made a mistake. While the world becomes a little more difficult to understand every day, his intuitions or reasoning have often proven to be correct.

As evidenced by his latest books, Time of the Predators (published in 2020), description of the warlike rise of China, Russia and Trump’s United States, Return from war (2021), published before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, or Lessons of a War (2023), which exposes the challenges posed to our democracies by the expansionism of Putin and Xi Jinping. He…