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Proxy Wars and Spheres of Influence in Post-Isis Syria

Proxy Wars and Spheres of Influence in Post-Isis Syria

In the last years of the 2010s, the competitive intervention of rival powers in the Syrian crisis escalated into a contest to carve out spheres of geo-political influence in the country.

 4 September 2020
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The French Veterans of Globalised Jihad

Today there is surely not a single United Nations member state without nationals enrolled in Daesh, the very poorly-named “Islamic State.”

 1 August 2016

‘Foreign fighters’ europeos: realidades y retos

La fuerza del atractivo de Daesh puede interpretarse como un hecho religioso, un espacio de adquisición de recursos, un combate político o incluso una búsqueda de fraternidad.

 18 July 2016

Jihadist Networks: Response in Europe and the Arab World

Since 2011, Syria has been experiencing a civil war of great intensity. To date, this conflict has caused nearly 200,000 casualties, a conflict in which the jihadist movements are particularly active.

 14 July 2016

Internal Politics and the Evolution of the Conflict in Syria

While that deadline may or may not be met, whatever transitional governing arrangement eventually emerges from the many Syrian wars now in progress will have to take into account the current governance and political situations on the ground.

 8 July 2016

Countering Violent Extremism in the MENA Region: Time to Rethink Approaches and Strategies

The foreign fighters phenomenon affecting MENA countries is unprecedented in its scale. While most MENA countries adopted “hard” strategies based on security-focused approaches, countering violent extremism also requires the use of “soft” str...

 17 May 2016

Caos en Libia

“Las tribus pueden contribuir enormemente a resolver la crisis política y de seguridad libia. Por desgracia, parece que nos dirigimos hacia la escisión del país en dos Estados o hacia un sistema federal”.

 10 May 2016

Crisis existencial en Líbano

Víctima de los conflictos regionales, de las armas de Hezbolá y del confesionalismo, el país está sumido en una de las crisis más graves de su historia.

 10 May 2016

Towards A Security Architecture For The Mediterranean

The debates constitute a valuable contribution to the mapping of the main threats in the Mediterranean region and offer interesting insights on how the security order in the region should be reviewed in order to address them.

 13 April 2016

Terrorist Threat in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

The plethora of reasons for Jihadist groups’ local and global appeal corroborate the thesis that Islamic radicalism is becoming a general, global, radical anti-systemic movement.

 11 April 2016
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MENA Post-Conflict Reconstruction Working Group

The aim of the seminar is to analyze the reconstruction processes in post-conflict countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, with particular emphasis on Syria, Iraq and Libya; and publish a document that serves as a preliminary assessment...

 11 April 2016

The EU and Conflict Resolution in the Mediterranean Neighbourhood: Tackling New Realities through Old Means?

Since the Arab uprisings, conflict realities in MENA have undergone a substantial change. As the EU’s crisis management policies in the past have been largely perceived as a failure, has the EU reacted in an appropriate way to this change?

 16 March 2016

Facilitating a Political Transition in Syria

The International Syria Support Group agreed upon a cessation of hostilities in Munich. What are the prospects of a confederal approach to a political transition in Syria, as proposed by international officials?

 10 March 2016