The United Arab Emirates, a Prosperous Petrostate with Clay Feet
The hope of a new global order, harbored by oil exporting countries in the seventies, has quickly turned into disillusion and the scare of a […]
Proche et Moyen-Orient
Pakistanese military operations against Islamic activists
Taliban-led islamic insurrections in tribal zones and in the valley of Swat are not always quenched. As a military solution seems more than uncertain, there […]
Post-Musharraf Pakistan, between the American hammer and the Indian anvill. Political-strategic aggiornamento vertigo ?
Pakistan is going through a singular period in its history: it is being decisively confronted to very strong interior and exterior tensions that represent so […]
Like father, like son. Personalized succession : Bachar el Assad and the new challenges to the Ba’thist State
This article seeks to understand the current challenges to the Syrian Arab Republic at a crucial moment in its history. The West is tentatively extending […]
Towards the emergence of a strategic culture in the Middle-East. Exporting the Hezbollahi mode of operation in other regional theatres of operation
The Lebanon conflict in summer 2006 demonstrated the end of Hezbolla’s « transformation » process into a true organised and structured military force, following the […]
Annapolis’ unkept promises : a Palestinian perspective
Before Israeli military operations in Gaza durably prevented hopes of an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement, the negotiation process initiated in Annapolis on November 27th, 2007 had […]
From ‘constructive chaos’ to ‘growing entropy’. Perspectives for 2008 in the Middle-East
– Abstract The year 2008 can be forecast as marking a transition and waiting phase in the Middle-East. This part of the globe has entered […]
The Iraqi Special Tribunal: an instrument for justice or revenge?
– Abstract The Iraqi Special Tribunal – a new court created by the occupation authorities to judge the crimes of the regime of Saddam Hussein […]
Afghanistan, six years after
– Abstract Six years after the events of September 11th, 2001, Afghanistan has found relative peace and safety only thanks to the presence of the […]
Petite et grande histoire autour de la crise iraquienne
– Résumé La crise iraquienne a concerné plusieurs « fronts » : l’Iraq et ses dirigeants, le Conseil de sécurité, l’Alliance atlantique et l’Europe, laquelle […]
