A shocking book, far from the usual banalities on Europe. Written on the back of Brexit, it goes well beyond the referendum of 23 June 2016. Because Europe is sick. Sick at its powerlessness and mediocracy, sick at the new challenges that assail it, sick at the slow disaffection of the people it has ignored. Sick at its ambiguity in the aim of the European project.
Three differing views, positive but without any concession. How did we get here?
That of Nicole Fontaine, who presided over the European Parliament and has had an exalted career for almost a quarter of a century. That of François Poulet-Mathis, a radio and television journalist who has spent his whole career observing European institutions. And those of students of the oldest business school in the world, the international incubator of tomorrow's top economists.
If it does not react, Europe is currently threatened by a dislocation that could see it only reduced to a single market place. It needs to be rethought. The way is open, and it's not too late
The terrible attacks of 11 September 2001, brutally brought the world into a 21st century dominated by hyper-terrorism.
Few attempts have been made to understand the psychology of radical revolutionary Islamists, yet the Islamic state has attracted individuals from 120 countries around the world. It is the greatest extra-territorial fighting force since the Second World War and the new «foul beast» after Nazism. Billions of dollars are spent around the world on our security, but nothing at all on psychiatric research to determine the intra-psychic personality traits of terrorists. To reduce the number of terrorist acts by 80%, Professor Michel-Alexandre Bailly proposes the idea of etablishing the world's first intrapsychic intelligence service in France. He attempts to define a particular mental disorder, «namely the radical terrorist syndrome», and works for its inclusion in the World Health Organisation (WHO) statistical classification of mental disorders and in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association.
