Réflexion stratégique et géopolitique
Face aux recompositions du monde affectant notamment l’espace méditerranéen, l’Afrique et le Moyen-Orient, le pôle « réflexion stratégique et géopolitique » de la FMES décrypte l’actualité et les lignes de force qui impactent cette vaste zone cruciale pour l’Europe.
Ce pôle de réflexion agrège les compétences croisées des chercheurs et chercheurs associés de l’Institut.
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Strategic Perspectives 2024-2: the collapse of certainty
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 years: on the one hand, a fracture between South and North, that separates the ways of thinking, values, and interests, both of states and their populations; and on the other hand, a geopolitical recomposition between
Syria, between ruptures and new regional ambitions
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 of the war in Ukraine, the erosion of Iranian deterrence capabilities, the military defeat of Lebanese Hezbollah against Israel, but especially the “letting go” of Bashar al-Assad by his army and his people, precipitating the
What kind of American policy for the Middle East in 2025?
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. And the two candidates have rather divergent views regarding US foreign policy in the Middle East. The Democrat candidate logically remains in line with the policy pursued by President Biden, with some concessions to the