A significant degree of uncertainty remains on the consequences of Britain’s EU referendum. Once Article 50 is triggered, the Brexit will still have to be enforced and effective. British ...
Ce podcast est délivré par Matthieu Tardis. En août 2015, plus de 100 000 personnes arrivent sur les côtes européennes. S’ouvre alors une nouvelle crise existentielle pour l’Union europée ...
Geographically, Egypt is located at the crossroads of several areas that are sometimes homogeneous and other times contradictory. These areas offer Egypt multiple opportunities to position itself in the region and in the world. However, the country is forced to manage its neighborhood’s contradictions. Historically, Egypt has inherited a past leadership that it is unable to maintain in absence of adequate leverage capacity. Its current resources and problems handicap its dream of re ...
Géographiquement l’Egypte se trouve au carrefour de plusieurs espaces parfois présentant une certaine homogénéité et parfois contradictoires. Ces espaces lui offrent de multiples opportunités de positionnement dans la région et dans le monde. Mais, le pays est mis dans l’obligation de gérer les contradictions de son voisinage. Dans un autre registre, celui de l’histoire l’Egypte hérite d’un passé de leadership qu’elle ne peut maintenir faute de capacité d’influence adéquate. Ses moy ...
En l’automne 2015 la Russie décide d’intervenir en Syrie. Elle joint le geste à la parole, et arrive à remettre sur pied un régime qui fut chancelant après Quatre années de guerre civile.
Cette intervention est alors vue par moult observateurs comme une action dictée par les relations historiques entre le régime des Bechar et l’ancienne URSS. Ce point de vue conforte l’opinion qui veut que la Russie ne soit qu’une version actuelle de l’ancienne URSS. Elle a hérité de ...
Manfred Hafner, Professor, Johns Hopkins University SAIS & Sciences Po was interviewed in the context of the international conference: “Seven Years after the Crisis: Intersecting Perspectives”
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Political Developments: Towards a Political Transition?
Countries in the Sahel are facing political changes that seriously affect the African continent at large. This blog attempts to give an overview of the recent political developments in the region before focusing on the ongoing challenges.
Starting 2011, Libya went through the Arab Spring protest leading to the current political deadlock. The escalation of violence combined with a rising death toll forced the international co ...
Ethiopia is located at the heart of the Horn of Africa. Torn between its position within the Greater Middle East (Culcasi 2008, 128 and Fukuyama 2008, 206) from one side, and Sub Saharan Africa on the other, this East African state is landlocked in a region marked by intense and long-standing political strife and conflicts, and is directly exposed to regional insecurity and political volatility. Against this unstable background, successive regimes and governments in Addis Ababa have ...