International audienceThe collapse of the Soviet Union profoundly altered the unstable balances of the Cold War to produce new economic, political and strategic imbalances. Disarmament procedures, which had been the subject of numerous studies since the 1980s with a view to limiting the harmful effects of the arms race, have now been made possible. New economic domination is already looming under the leadership of the United States, the Soviet Union is experiencing an unprecedented economic crisis while it still has a particularly powerful nuclear arsenal, and economic war strategies are still being implemented in these new power relations. Disarmament procedures are hoped for, but no convincing results are to be expected as long as the eco...