Middle East / North Africa

The ups and downs of the Israel-Palestine peace process have made way for a non-conventional war that is all too real: this about-turn can be explained by Israel's political radicalisation (Ariel Sharon's nationalism and the fight against terrorism sanctioned by the 9/11 attacks) and Yassir...

Ten years after the interruption of the electoral process (January 1992) that plunged the country into civil war, is Algeria anywhere close to bringing an end to this crisis?

The September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington bring the Arab world into a new era. The 'regional stability pact', put in place by the 1979 Camp David agreement, is no longer suited to a region where the divide between the elites and the populace now seems irreconcilable. Allied...

This "Note" tries to define the more credible scenarios for South-Lebanon, and to identify the main threats to current Middle Eastern stability.

 Since Mehmed Ali, the army has been at the heart of all sociopolitical evolutions in Egypt.

This content is published in French : Les violences de la paix

In North Africa the year 1999 was marked by the arrival in power of Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algeria and by the death of the king of Morocco, Hassan II. These events occurred in a region beset by a number of social and institutional bottlenecks, such as bipolarization of the political scene...

An analysis of the impact of multilateral sanctions imposed on Iraq and Serbia in the 1990s.

This 'Note' aims at giving a better understanding of the very specific and complex ties which link the Israeli nation to its army. 

This book provides an analysis of the complicated relations between Arabic States (Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordania, Lebanon, Marocco, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen) and islamic protest movements.