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Six years after his accession, Sultan Haitham bin Tariq has consolidated his power on the domestic front in Oman. The sultanate, however, has been weakened on the international stage by the consequences of the war...

Pierre RAZOUX, academic director of the FMES Institute The ongoing war between the United States, Israel and Iran has significantly disrupted the strategic balance in the Middle East. The Iranian regime has survived, adapted and...

We all see it: the world is becoming increasingly brutal, as if devoid of faith or law. Even if the wars in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza, Syria, Sudan, and Iran are not fundamentally more violent...

The war initiated by the United States and Israel against Iran on 28 February 2026 must be understood at the intersection of both global power competition—primarily involving the United States, China, and Russia—and regional rivalries...

By Joséphine Dutardre, Junior Researcher at the FMES Institute The gradual withdrawal of the United States reveals the weaknesses of European defence: strategic dependence, insufficient manpower, scattered capabilities. Despite substantial budgets and significant military potential,...

In two previous articles, we were able to examine the important advances in environmental protection in the Mediterranean, as well as the new priorities required to sustain our efforts to restore the good ecological status...

By Thierry Duchesne, FMES Maritime Department Director Abstract: As we saw in a previous article, the Western Mediterranean is doing better in many areas. The actions undertaken from the 1970s onwards have borne fruit even...

By Pascal Ausseur, Managing Director, FMES Institute Published by Le Grand Continent, May 18, 2025 : https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/05/18/leurope-a-decouvert-de-la-solitude-strategique-au-test-de-la-violence/ As it has expanded, the Union has also let down its guard. While it seems to have awakened...

By Aris Marghelis, associate researcher at the FMES Despite a lull in relations with Turkey, the fall of Damascus and the “Trump method” on international issues have thrust Greece into uncertainty. From a strategic perspective,...