A look from the two shores… Fernand Braudel is often quoted when the Mediterranean is mentioned. He is not the only author to have dedicated himself to the study of this region, but this French...
Patrick LefebvreIn this episode of .think atlantic, IRI’s Thibault Muzergues is joined by Fabrizio Luciolli, Pascal Ausseur, Balkan Devlen and Olfa Hamdi to talk about the past, present and future of the Mediterranean space. As the...
Pascal AusseurPierre Razoux, FMES Academic and Research Director. The countries of the Middle East and North Africa are reluctant to take sides so as not to jeopardize their growing cooperation with Russia; Israel, Turkey and Iran...
Pierre RazouxThe geopolitical tectonic plates continued to move during the second half of 2021. Our previous issue of ‘Strategic Perspectives’ laid its emphasis on the new President Biden’s attempt, that from our point of view was...
Institut FMESArnaud Peyronnet, FMES associate member of the Strategic Monitoring Centre for the Mediterranean and the Middle East (OS2MO). The announcement on 17 September 2021 of the AUKUS strategic agreement between Australia, the United States and...
Arnaud PeyronnetChloé Jamet Since January 2020 Oman has been led by a new sultan, Haitham bin Tariq al Said, successor to Sultan Quaboos. After half a century marked by Sultan Quaboos’ strategic neutrality, its continuity should...
Institut FMESPierre Razoux, academic and research director at FMES, author of The Iran-Iraq War (Harvard University Press), winner of the Society for Military History’s prize for the best book of 2016. SummaryThe ratification of the ultraconservative...
Pierre RazouxPierre Vermeren, professor of contemporary Arab and Berber history at La Sorbonne University, and the CNRS (French National Centre for National Research); researcher at the Institut de Recherche sur la Méditerranée Contemporaine in Tunis, 2020-2021....
Pierre VermerenAir Force General (2s). Director of the Mediterranean training on strategic studies What is the Mediterranean? “A thousand things together. It is not one landscape, but numerous landscapes. It is not one sea, but a...
Patrick LefebvreDiogo Miguel Ribeiro Cardoso. Master’s student in International Relations at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP), University of Lisbon. Executive-Secretary at the Portuguese Institute of Asian Studies (ISCSP-University of Lisbon). The United States...
Diogo Miguel Ribeiro CardosoOn October 1th, 2021, Admiral (ret) Pascal Ausseur, Director General of the FMES Institute, will give a lecture at the International Symposium entitled ‘War and Chess’ (La Guerre et l’ Échiquier), organized by the non-profit-making association Dire et...
Marjorie GrandisDid you miss the event? Watch the replay of the the Middle East Mediterranean Summer Summit 2021 Forum by clicking on the link below, and find the intervention of our General Director, Pascal Ausseur, from...
Pascal AusseurWho are you ? Lt. Colonel Abdelnaser Ramdan is a Libyan officer born in Alzzawiyah City, attended four years training course at the Naval Academy of Maritime studies in 2000 and Graduated from it with...
Abdelnaser RamdanWho are you ? Julia Zammit Galea Testaferrata is a full-time University of Malta student. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Policy and is now reading for a master’s degree in European Politics, Economics...
Julia Zammit Galea TestaferrataIgor Delanoë, Assistant director of the Observatoire franco-russe, Doctor of History and member of OS2MO Summary The 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh shed a light on an alliance not openly called one as such: that between...
Igor DelanoëThe first 6 months of 2021 were marked by the installation of a new US administration. A change at the head of the most powerful country in the world is an event in itself if...
Institut FMESJean-Loup Samaan, associate researcher at the French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français de Relations Internationales), formerly associate professor in strategic studies at the United Arab Emirates National Defence College from 2016 to 2021, based...
Jean-Loup SamaanFriday June 4th, 2021, the FMES Institute had the pleasure to co-organize with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and the NATO Defense college a webinar tackling “The geopolitical changes and security challenges in North...
Institut FMESChloé Berger, Middle East researcher, NATO Defense College. (The views expressed in this article do not reflect NATO’s position or that of the NATO Defense College and are the sole responsibility of the author.) Summary...
Chloé BergerJara Amira von Call, Germano-Lebanese graduate of Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence. Future postgraduate student at the College of Europe in Bruges. Abstract With the beginning of the 21st century, Germany’s Mediterranean policy has been experiencing a...
Jara Amira von CallSHADE MED 2020 – « Challenges for cooperation in the Mediterranean after the global pandemic » On 26-27 November 2020, VADM (Ret.) Pascal Ausseur took part to the conference hosted by the Shared Awareness and Deconfliction in...
Pascal AusseurBenoît de la Ruelle, associate member of the Mediterranean and Middle East Strategic Monitoring Centre (OS2MO). The brutal fall of Colonel Gaddafi’s regime, a consequence of foreign intervention in 2011, certainly put an end to...
Benoit de la RuelleArnaud Peyronnet, FMES associate member of the Strategic Monitoring Centre for the Mediterranean and the Middle East (OS2MO) Turkey is energetically working at drawing closer to Ukraine and the United Kingdom to counter Russia’s influence...
Arnaud PeyronnetAris Marghelis is Research fellow at the Centre for Maritime and Oceanic Law (Centre de Droit Maritime et Océanique), University of Nantes – Translation from French by Angus Clarke The major developments in Turkey’s regional...
Aris Marghellis[wc_button type= »primary » url= »https://fmes-france.org/arnaud-peyronnet-le-soudan-nouvelle-porte-dentree-de-la-russie-vers-lafrique-et-locean/ » title= »French version » target= » » url_rel= » » icon_left= » » icon_right= » » position= »center » class= » »]French version Russia, which wants to play a leading role in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, is looking to provide itself with a...
Arnaud Peyronnet“It was definitely an important event that could give a new impetus to Russia-Iran relations,” Safarov said. Pierre Razoux, a regional analyst and academic director at the Mediterranean Foundation of Strategic Studies (FMES) think tank,...
Pierre RazouxArticle de Pascal Ausseur et Pierre Razoux publié dans Russia in NATO’s South: Expansionist Strategy or Defensive Posture? de la Division Recherche du Collège de défense de l’OTAN. When the COVID-19 crisis hit Russia in...
Pascal AusseurAdlene Mohammedi, strategic research officer for AESMA and author of a thesis on the Arab politics of post-Soviet Russia On September 29, 2020, a few days before the visit of the then U.S. Secretary of...
Adlene MohammediPierre Razoux, Academic and Research Director of the FMES Institute ABSTRACT :Even if his style will be more welcoming, there is no doubt that Joe Biden will be defending America’s interests first. His election is...
Pierre RazouxThe context is not favorable for meetings! This is the least we can say at a time when the key words “curfew” or “confinement” are spreading almost everywhere in Europe and around the world. This...
Patrick LefebvrePierre Razoux, Academic and Research Director of the FMES Institute ABSTRACT By encouraging Azeri President Ilham Aliyev in his attempt to regain Nagorno-Karabakh, President Erdogan opened a new front facing the Kremlin to boast a...
Pierre RazouxClick here to read the original (French) version Abstract: The provisional agreement of August 13, 2020 to normalise relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is a risky gamble that is good news for...
Pierre RazouxClick here to read the original (French) version of this article The Turkish merchant ship Cirkin, which is used to transit between Turkey and Libya for deliveries of military equipment under the guise of « humanitarian...
Arnaud PeyronnetClick here to read the original (French) version of this article On May 15, 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed a decree dismissing Rear Admiral Cihat Yaycı as Chief of Staff of the Navy...
Jean MarcouWhile the strategic consequences of the Covid-19 crisis still seem uncertain in the Levant and the fighting continues methodically in the Idlib pocket in Syria, several Israeli experts, commentators and politicians took advantage of the...
Pierre RazouxClick here to read the original (French) version of this article An article written by Chloé Berger, Faculty Adviser and Researcher at the NATO DEFENSE COLLEGE At the end of April, Bashar al-Assad’s maternal cousin,...
Chloé BergerResearch team of the FMES institute Click here to read the original (French) version of this article It’s still too early to tell if the Covid-19 crisis is going to change the world. However, we...
Institut FMESBy Admiral (ret’d) Pascal Ausseur Director of the FMES Institute. Click here to read the original (French) version of this article Taking an interest in maritime events means taking an interest in events on...
Pascal AusseurPierre Razoux, research director at the IRSEM (Strategic Research Institute of the French “École Militaire”), associated with the FMES institute, is the author of numerous works including “Which strategy(ies) for France in the Mediterranean?” (FMES...
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