International crisis and conflicts

The humanitarian consequences of the Darfur crisis have been high on the agenda of the media since the beginning of 2004. This crisis has also […]

Since September 2000, the reform of Palestinian institutions dominates the second Intifada. The Palestinian institutions’ failure to reform is alleged to be at the origin […]

Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the first democratically elected president in Haiti in 1990, abandoned the country on February 29, 2004 without completing his second term, in a […]

The civil war that has been going on for a decade in Ivory Coast reached a climax in November 2002 when hundreds of former military […]

After having held a secondary role in Russian foreign and security policies, post-soviet Central Asia has acquired an increasing importance in it, ever since Vladimir […]

The violent clash between Israelis and Palestinian, since September 2000, is widely press-covered and spurs anxious reactions from Ministries of Foreign Affairs as well as […]

Since Vladimir Putin became Russia’s president in April 2000, the country’s foreign policy has become more pragmatic. Aimed primarily at meeting Russia’s economic interests, it […]

This essay presents the evolution of the Russian military budget since the end of USSR, by comparing official data with those supplied by different Western […]

Firstly, it is necessary to distinguish between rationality and reasonableness, as well as several kinds of levels of rationality – true to life or rebuilt, […]

In the last decade of the 20th century, a new kind of armed conflict has emerged in West Africa, consisting in chaotic battles, with no […]