History and Case studies Research
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?
Essays Geopolitics
The end of UN PEACE MISSIONS ?
Your 5-MINUTE WEEKLY DOSE OF GEOPOLITICS. This week : UN peace operations have long been criticised for their inefficiency, their new comprehensive format based on peace-building is however not free from criticisms.
Essays Geopolitics
Is the BALTIC SEA a “NATO lake” ?
Your 5-MINUTE WEEKLY DOSE OF GEOPOLITICS. This week : NATO has a strong foothold in the Baltic but seems powerless faced with Russia’s hybrid threats.
Essays Geopolitics
GERMANY, a major military power in Europe?
Your 5-MINUTE WEEKLY DOSE OF GEOPOLITICS. This week : Germany has realised the importance to ramp up national and European defence capabilities, but has it really the means and will to do it?
Essays Geopolitics
Is INDIA a threat for CHINA?
Your 5-MINUTE WEEKLY DOSE OF GEOPOLITICS. This week : India competes more and more with China, but remains far from outshining its neighbour and thus prefers avoiding antagonising it.
Essays Geopolitics
Bloc mentality and warfare in SPACE
Your 5-MINUTE WEEKLY DOSE OF GEOPOLITICS.
This week : the arms race in spaces continues geopolitical tensions in a new environment and there is no adequate legal framework to prevent the advent of guerrilla warfare in space.
Essays Geopolitics
Growing security concerns in the ARCTIC
Your 5-MINUTE WEEKLY DOSE OF GEOPOLITICS.
This week : aggressive behaviours in the Arctic for its strategic resources may not lead to a direct confrontation yet. Multilateral diplomatic frameworks do exist, but they may not be enough.
Essays Geopolitics
Has the world entered a “NO WAR, NO PEACE” era?
Is a Western-dominated world order really a guarantee for peace? How has the shift from power rivalry to power inequality changed warfare? What is “weakness politics”? Does peace still exist?
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?
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?
Essays Geopolitics
A collapse of the TALIBAN regime in the medium term (3-5 years)?
How likely is it that the Taliban regime will collapse in 3 to 5 years? Will internal divisions, rebel groups, popular unrest and foreign pressure make it fall?
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?
Research
HUMILIATION in International Relations
How can globalisation and Western modernity be both desired and rejected? What are the humiliating ways in which the West sustains its global domination? How does humiliation fuel national narratives? How have wars changed in a way that humiliation has become systematic?
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CHINA in AFRICA, a “shared future”?
Is it a “win-win” relation? Does China help Africa develop? Does it use “debt-trap diplomacy”? How does China play the big brother? What challenges will it face?
Essays Geopolitics
Limits of the POWER VACUUM Logic in AFRICA
Liberal actors see Africa as a proxy landscape for their power rivalry with illiberal countries. However, they forget that African States have their own agency and that it’s not a simple zero-sum game, a vacuum is not always spatial.
Research
RUSSIA, a predator in AFRICA
What is Russia’s strategy in Africa? How does it use the Wagner group? What’s happening in CAR, Mali, Sudan and SAF? What can limit Russia’s influence?
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Weak and Failed States in AFRICA
Who is at the basis of the DRC’s educational system? How do Chad’s rural populations settle property-related disputes? Why do Guinean hunters perform law enforcement missions? Why is a NGO fighting terrorism in Benin’s national parks?
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…
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?
Research
PAN-AFRICANISM: between genuine aspirations and ideological hijacking
Short history, main thinkers and recent developments related to Russia’s influence in Africa.