Strategic and Geopolitical Thinking

The year 2024 was marked by a change of era. One rupture follows another and the old world is gradually disappearing, swept away by a dual movement that the FMES has been describing for several...

In twelve days (December 2024) and in an astonishing acceleration, the Syrian Islamist rebels managed to conquer Damascus and drive the Baathist regime out of the Assad dynasty. This geopolitical break is the indirect consequence...

Arnaud Peyronnet. Associate Researcher / FMES Summary: With the US presidential campaign heating up, the conflict in Gaza and its extension to Lebanon is becoming an extremely polarizing issue on the American domestic political scene....

Chloé Jamet, Associate Researcher, Institut FMES Assessing the stability of a Middle Eastern country is always an arduous task. This article, written at the end of a long stay in the country, is not intended...

By Jean Marcou, Emeritus Professor at Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA, Researcher at CERDAP2, Associate Researcher at the French Institute for Anatolian Studies (IFEA) in Istanbul, FMES Institute (Toulon), and CFRI (Paris). Starting from November 6, 2024,...

Colonel Cyril Iordanow, Baltic Defence College, Saint-Cyrien and former commanding officer of the 93rd mountain artillery regiment. This article was written as part of the High Command Studies Course 2024 at the Baltic Defence College...

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...

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...