From the outbreak of unrest in March 2011, Syria’s political opposition was divided between internal and external players.
The Syrian crisis has become a tough knot to unravel. The relentless battle that Bashar al-Assad’s regime is waging against the opposition is compounded by the intrigues of the regional powers.
The thirteen-month period from January 2012 to February 2013 is crucial to understanding the situation in Mali and, by extension, in the Sahel.
Many recent comments on the EU’s Mediterranean policy come to the conclusion that the challenge raised by the Arab Spring has less to do with existing policies than with a lack of strategy.
The recent ceasefire agreement signed in Cairo between Hamas and Israel was certainly not the first ceasefire since the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, and unfortunately will not be the last.
The overthrow of the old regimes represents a historic rupture with the long winter of authoritarian stability and a change of paradigm perceptible on various levels.
Although it follows the path of the Arab revolts preceding it, Syria’s revolution displays unique characteristics due to the country’s social composition.
The disappearance of the most wanted person on the planet long mobilised the Western media, whereas it was quickly displaced in the Arab media by other, more pressing developments.
Les dictatures ont réussi à spolier et à démolir l’économie de leur pays. Ainsi, les dictateurs ont déchiré minutieusement le tissu social en rendant leurs sociétés à leurs états primitifs afin d’empêcher toute organisation civile.
NATO's intervention in Libya has raised much controversy and been subject to opposite assessments.
The social and political revolts in the Middle East and North Africa generated unprecedented transformations in the region. Among the most urgent features of this evolution is the question of the need for reform of the security sector.
Among the Arab Spring’s diverse developments, the Libyan revolution took a singular course. No other country in the region saw the state apparatus split and a rebel leadership emerge that successfully laid claim to representing the state.