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Préface Par Pascal Ausseur, directeur général de l’institut FMES The conflict in Ukraine continues, ever further from the blitzkrieg scenario imagined by Vladimir Putin. This second half of 2022 was marked by the surprise counter-offensive...

« Lisboa cidade da tolerância » A nice slogan for a splendid capital city open to the world! Portuguese history is obviously very rich and closely linked to the discoveries made between the beginning of the 15th...

Marion SORANT, FMES associate member of the Strategic Monitoring Centre for the Mediterranean and the Middle East (OS2MO) Summary Jordan, which hosted the second regional annual Baghdad Conference for Cooperation and Partnership on 20 December...

Admiral (ret) Pascal Ausseur, Director General of FMES Article originally published in the July 2022 issue of RDN journal. The major changes that are disrupting their strategic environment require Italy and France to overcome their...

Arnaud Peyronnet, FMES associate member of the Strategic Observatory of the Mediterranean and the Middle East (OS2MO) ABSTRACT : Reacting to the visit to Taipei of Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the...

Aris Marghélis Researcher at the University of Littoral Côte d’Opale (LARJ & TVES) and associate researcher at the Maritime and Oceanic Law Centre (University of Nantes). Abstract: The Ukrainian conflict is impacting Greece’s strategic fundamentals....

Dr Mohammed Al Zaabi Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article do not represent those of France, nor those of the FMES Institute, but of the author who spent a month at the FMES Institute...

With attendance of H.E French Ambassador in Kuwait  Claire Le Flecher, Reconnaissance Research discusses with French experts and diplomats Ukraine war impacts on Kuwait and the region Reconnaissance Research on Tuesday hosted a closed symposium attended...

As Geopolitical tensions continue to escalate, great power competition is reshaping the regional and global balance in the Mediterranean Rim and in the Middle East. The FMES Institute has released its Strategic Atlas (2022 Edition)...

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...

In 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...

Pierre 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...

The 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...

Arnaud 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...

Chloé 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...

Pierre 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 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....

Air 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...

Diogo 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...

On 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...

Did 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...

Who 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...

Who 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...

Igor 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...

The 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...

Jean-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...

Friday 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...

Chloé 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...

Jara 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...

SHADE 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...

Benoît 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...

Arnaud 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...

Aris 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...

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“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,...

Article 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...

Adlene 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...

Pierre 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...

The 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...

Pierre 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...

Click 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...

Click 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...

Click 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...

While 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...

Click 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,...

Research 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...

By 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...

Pierre 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...