Opinion Papers 2023
"In Ukraine, the Pressing Commitment of International Law", Desk Russie, #47, January 14, 2023; in French, « En Ukraine, le droit international nous oblige »,.
"How road & rail are just as important as tanks in fighting Russia", EU Observer, January 16, 2023.
« Guerre en Ukraine : pourquoi la Russie intensifie-t-elle sa stratégie de la terreur ? », interview with La Dépêche du Midi, January 16, 2023.
"Understanding the War. On the Exceptionality of Russia's All-Out War Against Ukraine", Tenzer Strategics, January 21, 2023.
« Russie de Poutine : retour sur une cécité », Servir, n° 518, décembre 2022 (published in January 2023).
"Abrams and Leopards Are Welcome, But Do Not Make the Strategy. Does the West Have Long-Term Russian Objectives and Policy, Especially in the 'Global South'", Tenzer Strategics, February 2, 2023.
« En 1994, le discours prémonitoire du président estonien Lennart Meri », presentation and translation in French, Desk Russie 48, February 11, 2023.
"Morality and Foreign Policy: the Strategy of Confusion. Syria and Ukraine Versus Iraq and Israel: Responding to Whataboutism", Tenzer Strategics, February 19, 2023.
"Faces of Ukraine's Dead Haunt the West", Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), February 20, 2023.
« Il faut que la Russie soit complètement, intégralement et radicalement défaite », interview with Tyzhden (The Ukrainian Week), February 20, 2023 ; in Ukrainian.
"One Year, Nine Years: Ending a War Without End? In Front of the Abyss and Destruction: the Void and our Record", Tenzer Strategics, February 24, 2023.
"On War Diplomacy. Old Principles and New Rules: What Is a Foreign Policy?", Tenzer Strategics, March 13, 2023.
"The UN, the Criminal and International Law. What Russia's Upcoming Presidency of the Security Council Says About Us,", Tenzer Strategics, March 20, 2023.
« Les déportations massives d'enfants ukrainiens révèlent une entreprise d'éradication du futur de l'Ukraine », collective op-ed with Véronique Nahoum-Grappe, Jonathan Littell, Emmanuel Daoud, Pierre Raiman and Gabriel Sebbah, Le Monde, March 24, 2023 (paper edition dated March 25, 2023).
« Chine, Russie : couple incassable », Franc Tireur, March 29, 2023.
"Combating Sanctions Circumvention. Immediate Measures and Long-Term Perspectives", Tenzer Strategics, April 6, 2023.
"Macron Dances To China's Tune (But Not for Long)", Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), April 18, 2023.
"Vladimir Kara-Murza: Our Conscience and the Living With Freedom. Only the Radical Defeat of Russia Will Open Its Future Again", Tenzer Strategics, April 19, 2023.
« Taïwan : faire barrage à la Chine », Franc Tireur, April 19, 2023.
"On Ukraine and Russia: Let's Dare to Take a Long-Term View - and a Strategy. How a Short Sighted View Would Herald a Repeat of the Disaster", Tenzer Strategics, April 23, 2023.
"Nicolas Tenzer on Western Support for Ukraine and Georgia’s European Fate Should This Wane", Interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL) republished in Georgia Today, April 27, 2023.
"Any Re-Engagement With Assad’s Syria Would Be Complicity With the Crime Against Humanity. The Democracies Must Assume Their Strategic Responsibility in the Region by Not Letting This Happen", Tenzer Strategics, May 1, 2023.
"The European Security Conundrum: Between 'Strategic Autonomy' and Alliance", Diplomaatia (Estonie), International Centre for Defense and Security, May 12, 2023.
"Twenty Theses On Democracies' Post-Russian Defeat Strategy - Part One. The Long-Term Conditions of Our Security: I. the Democratic Strategy", Tenzer Strategics, May 13, 2023.
"Twenty Theses On Democracies' Post-Russian Defeat Strategy - Part Two. The Long-Term Conditions of Our Security: II. the Deterrence Strategy", Tenzer Strategics, May 19, 2023.
Interview with Verkkouutiset (in Finnish), "We should support much more Ukraine", May 21, 2023.
"The Road to Chişinău: The European Political Community", avec Sam Greene et Edward Lucas, Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), May 23, 2023.
"Twenty Theses On Democracies' Post-Russian Defeat Strategy - Part Three. The Long-Term Conditions of Our Security: III. The Strategy of Re-Balancing the World", Tenzer Strategics, June 2, 2023.
"From Ukraine With Love. Back From Kyiv—How to Avoid the Eternal Return of The Same?", Tenzer Strategics, June 5, 2023.
« Après la victoire de l'Ukraine, il faudra mettre fin aux opérations d'agression et de déstabilisation de Moscou », La Tribune, June 9, 2023.
"Macron Signals a Transformation in Security Policy", Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), June 9, 2023.
"Let's Stop Rehashing the Narrative of the Third World War. The Control and the Power of Deterrence", Tenzer Strategics, June 12, 2023.
« Guerre en Ukraine : Les Russes détournent volontairement leur regard de cette contre-offensive », Interview with La Dépêche du Midi, June 13 2023.
« Poutine : après lui, le déluge ! », Franc Tireur, June 13, 2023.
"Jak zadać Rosji strategiczną klęskę?" (How to Inflict a Strategic Disaster to Russia?), Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny (Journal of the Polish Institute of International Affairs - PISM), n° 2 (93), 2023.
"Strategic Amnesia. Time, Delay and Forgetting", Tenzer Strategics, June 22, 2023.
« Poutine, tsar chancelant », Franc Tireur, n° 85, June 28, 2023.
"Russia: the Cupola Versus the State? From One Mafia to Another: The Future of Russia and the Strategy of Democracies", Tenzer Strategics, July 1, 2023.
"The Murdered Writer and the Stain of Our Unconsciousness. Reflections on Our Strategic Childishness", Tenzer Strategics, July 4, 2023.
"Moscow is reaping the benefits of Bulgaria's faltering anti-corruption fight", Euronews, July 6, 2023.
"From Kyiv to Vilnius: Those Five Hundreds Days That Should Never Have Been. Back From Kyiv 3: The Building of a Nation", Tenzer Strategics, July 11, 2023.
"France is not complacent about Russia anymore", Lithuanian Foreign Policy Review, vol. 42, July 2023.
"NATO Summit Fails Ukraine", Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), July 13, 2023.
« L'Occident n'a toujours pas cette idée : il faut vaincre la Russie », interview with Suspilne News (in Ukrainan), July 13, 2023.
"Glitter, Smokes and Mirrors, and Death: The NATO Summit and the Failure To Correct Course That Followed. Foreign Policy and Spin Strategy", Tenzer Strategics, July 19, 2023.
"Breaking the Russian Embargo on Ukrainian Grain. Why This Would Be a Decisive Strategic Step Forward", Tenzer Strategics, July 21, 2023.
"International Expertise: Scientific Truth and Strategic Non-Neutrality. Lessons From Russia's War Against Ukraine and for Its Reconstruction, and The World's", Tenzer Strategics, July 30, 2023.
"Is The United States An (Ir)Responsible Power? Does Washington DC Have A Foreign Policy?", Tenzer Strategics, September 8, 2023.
"How To Recognize A (Sometimes Unwitting) Kremlin Enabler ? Democracies Don’t Counter Russian Narratives Enough", Tenzer Strategics, September 16, 2023.
"There Can Be No Peace With Russia", Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), September 21, 2023.
« Nous appuyons avec vigueur la candidature du journaliste russe Vladimir Kara-Mourza au prix Nobel de la paix 2023 », Le Monde, September 22, 2023 (op-ed co-signed with Gérard Bensussan, André Gattolin, Luba Jurgenson, Jonathan Littell, Claude Malhuret, Lev Ponomarev, Pierre Raiman, Sylvie Rollet, Emmanuel Wallon).
"If The United States Disappears... Could Europe Survive? ", Tenzer Strategics, September 26, 2023.
« Ne pas renforcer l'insécurité des démocraties », Les entretiens du CRIF, September 27, 2023.
"A European Home for Ukraine: Perspectives on the EU's Enlargement Challenge from Berlin, Paris, and Warsaw", Center for European Policy Analysis, avec Marija Golubeva, Katarzyna Pisarska and Sam Greene, September 27, 2023.
"Regaining Georgia After Victory in Ukraine. Don't Let Tbilisi Remain a Captured State", Tenzer Strategics, October 1 2023.
« Le Forum 2000, pour "montrer l'actualité du combat pour la liberté"», interview with Radio Prague International, October 16, 2023.
"Countering Russia's Horizontal War. Towards A Leaderless World?", Tenzer Strategics, October 18, 2023.
"Without the United States, Europe Is Lost", Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), October 23, 2023.
"How Democracies Let the World Become a Lawless Order. People and Our Security Are Paying a Hard Price", Tenzer Strategics, October 31, 2023.
"The Trouble, the Noise and the Message: Do the Allies Want To Win the War? Darkness and Perjury,", Tenzer Strategics, November 6, 2023.
« Proche-Orient : 15 ans plus tard, les illusions de Barack Obama se paient au prix fort », Interview with Atlantico, November 13, 2023.
« Finis le droit international et la diplomatie, le monde a (re)basculé dans l’ère du pur rapport de forces. La France en prend-elle la mesure ? », Interview with Atlantico, November 14, 2023.
« La vraie question est la reprise des discussions entre Israéliens et Palestiniens », interview with Vosges Matin, Le Dauphiné, L'Est Républicain, Le Républicain Lorrain, Le Bien Public, Le Progrès de Lyon and Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, November 25, 2025.
"Rosja atakuje umysły na Zachodzie" (Russia attacks minds in the West), interview with Biznes Alert (Poland), November 28, 2023.
"Confusion and Polarization At Home and Abroad. How Can We Try to Regain a Common Understanding?", Tenzer Strategics, November 30, 2023.
"Foreign Policy, Cretinism and Decadence. Do We Want to Disprove Putin's Prophecy of the Collapse of Democracies?", Tenzer Strategics, December 13, 2023.
"Kairos and Decision. Why Has Russia’s War Against Ukraine Had Little Structural Effect on the Foreign Policy of Alliance Countries?", Tenzer Strategics, December 23, 2023.