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RUSSIA-CHINA: friends to enemies?

The Sino-Russian relation is too often mistaken for a strategic alliance. However, its asymetry stands as its main vulnerability. Will it turn “friends without limits” into foes?

By Tony, 2 weeks17 May 2025 ago
History and Case studies

The COLOUR REVOLUTIONS in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan

What sparked the Colour revolutions? Did they bring democracy and the rule of law? What role did the US play? How did it impact relations with Russia?

By Tony, 1 year31 December 2023 ago
History and Case studies

NIGERIA and Boko-Haram

How did Boko Haram get control of Lake Chad? How does Boko Haram differ from the Islamic State? What is the connection between terrorism and criminality? What hinders Nigerian counter-terrorist efforts?

By Tony, 1 year24 December 2023 ago
‘Moral evil, economic good’: Whitewashing the sins of colonialism
History and Case studies

Administrating IMPERIAL TERRITORIES between the 1880s and 1939

How was political, economic and cultural domination organised? What were the different modes of colonial administration? How was the colonial system challenged both in the metropole and in the colonies?

By Tony, 1 year19 December 2023 ago
History and Case studies

IMPERIAL HIERARCHIES between the 1880s and the 1990s

How were racial hierarchies justified and implemented? Why was there also a hierarchy among colonised populations? How did colonial conquests fuel imperial rivalries?

By Tony, 1 year19 December 2023 ago
History and Case studies

Summary of ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICTS since 1948

What were the causes & consequences of the various wars? How do Israeli-Palestinian tensions impact the broader regional context? How do the PLO and the Hamas differ? Why have attempts to pacify Israeli-Palestinian relations fail?

By Tony, 2 years10 October 2023 ago
History and Case studies

A Short History of RUSSIA

Twelve centuries of Russian history to discover how Russia has built its identity under the Mongols, Ivan the Terrible, the Romanov, the Soviet Union and now Vladimir Putin.

By Tony, 2 years30 August 2023 ago
History and Case studies

From Clinton to Biden:  a look back on 30 years of US LEADERSHIP

Delve into Bill Clinton’s pragmatic Wilsonianism, George W. Bush’s “America First”, Barack Obama’s smart power, Donald Trump’s unilateralism and Joe Biden’s Cold War mentality…

By Tony, 2 years14 April 2023 ago
History and Case studies

ETHIOPIA, ERITREA and the TIGRAY war

What was Ethiopia’s position during the Cold War? What is the history of the relations between Ethiopia and Eritrea? What sparked the Tigray War in 2020?

By Tony, 2 years1 April 2023 ago
History and Case studies

Jihadism in MALI, the FULA case

Who are the Fula and why do some fight with jihadists? Why is the ethno-religious lens an inadequate tool? How has poor governance fueled the security crisis?

By Tony, 2 years10 February 2023 ago
History and Case studies

UGANDA: the “Pearl of Africa”

Presentation of Uganda’s History, culture, politics, economy, security situation and so much more !

By Tony, 2 years15 January 2023 ago
History and Case studies

SOMALIA: al-Qaeda’s base in Eastern Africa

How did Islamist groups exploit state weaknesses? Why did piracy develop there? Why do Kenya and Ethiopia get involved in Somalia’s security issues?

By Tony, 2 years26 December 2022 ago
History and Case studies

SUDAN and SOUTH-SUDAN: the forgotten wars

What caused the 2017 famine in South-Sudan? What are the root causes of the genocide in Darfur? How was Omar al-Bashir deposed by the 2019 revolution?

By Tony, 2 years25 December 2022 ago
History and Case studies

RWANDA and BURUNDI: genocide between Hutu and Tutsi

How did ethnic tensions culminate in
a genocide between Hutus and Tutsis? What role did colonisation play? Who is Paul Kagamé the current Rwandan President ?

By Tony, 2 years19 December 2022 ago
History and Case studies

THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: the resource curse

How come the DRC has so much natural resource but is still poor?
What has been the influence of Rwanda over the DRC over the past decades? What is the M23?

By Tony, 2 years4 December 2022 ago
Russia in the Central African Republic
History and Case studies

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC : civil war and Russian predation

Why do the Seleka and anti-Balaka fight each other? What is Russia doing in CAR? Is the civil war still on? How are the UN and the EU trying to stop it?

By Tony, 3 years5 November 2022 ago
Armenia and Azerbaijan
History and Case studies

ARMENIA and AZERBAIJAN: the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Why did Stalin give Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan? What was the evolution of the conflict since 1992? What role does Russia play there?

By Tony, 3 years30 October 2022 ago
History and Case studies

A short History of the IRAN-US relationship

How was the Iranian regime before/after 1979 ? Who was the Ayatollah Khomeini ? How did the US-Iran relationship evolve ? What is the Iranian nuclear deal ?

By Tony, 3 years15 October 2022 ago
History and Case studies

MALI and France’s counter-terrorist operations

Why and how did France intervene? What were its motivations? Does the recent French withdrawal from Mali represent a defeat? What role are Russians playing?

By Tony, 3 years24 September 2022 ago
History and Case studies

Conflicts in YUGOSLAVIA in the 1990s

Background information since WW1, summaries of the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, and explanations on how crimes were judged in the aftermath of the wars.

By Tony, 3 years6 August 2022 ago

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