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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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

Post-October 7 Jordan
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 to predict the future, but to highlight the various factors that could tip Jordan over the edge, as the resumption of hostilities on its doorstep and the rise in regional tensions since October 2023 raise

Turkey and the return of Trump
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, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan openly congratulated “his friend Donald Trump” on X[1] for his victory, referencing the “struggle” Trump had undertaken to be “re-elected.” The language and tone of this reaction immediately echoed the personal closeness