Publications

Moscow has every intention of including Ukraine in its Eurasian Union, with one major playing card: the exchange of Kiev’s sovereignty for economic and financial advantages.

Since 1991, Kurdish parties have dominated and administered “Iraqi Kurdistan”.

Methodological debates about the stages of growth and the way in which a country goes through political modernization are long-established and manifold. 

While the peace process between the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) and the Turkish government is at a standstill, the latter is attempting to circumvent Turkey’s Kurdish actors by aligning itself with the KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party), which dominates the Kurdish regional government in Iraq...

The term “strategy” goes back to Greek antiquity and its meaning has evolved over time. Although today the term is bandied about and employed in all contexts, in the past, attempts to define it have been made by the greatest military thinkers.

According to the traditional notion of the just war, an armed conflict should lead to conditions of durable peace.

The crisis in Ukraine seems at first to be the result of the impact of two misunderstandings of Russian and Western approaches.

This Introduction is published in French only – Introduction : le moment kurde

Ukraine is divided along historical, ideological, economic, religious and linguistic lines, which it has failed to unite in its brief history. 

Historically, states have indebted themselves to finance military campaigns. They do so nowadays for other reasons such as financing productive investment.