Abstracts

摘要

Every Arab society has been shaken up: the thirst for social and political moderni-zation is the basis of a collective appeal for dignity and they are united in sociological soli-darity. Within each society, révolution and modernization combine differently in each case. A new order is emerging in the Middle East, with heightened tensions. The process continues. The author offers a dissertation on the gênerai thème of war, strategy and power, and their complex interrelationship in the early twenty-fîrst century. In the light of récent French opérations, he re-examines those thèmes, showing how the current combination calls for a sensé of neighbourly relations and a détermination to achieve balance and accept compromise in order to préserve what he does not name, but which is at the heart of national identity: the freedom to choose one's own path.