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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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Terrorismo, motor de cambio de la política exterior

Los atentados originados en la región MENA y perpetrados en Occidente han tenido un efecto crecientemente militarizado en las políticas hacia la zona de los países afectados.

 24 October 2016

Counter-Terrorism Policies in Egypt: Effectiveness and Challenges

The dispersal of the Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins in Raba’a square and al-Nahda square in August 2013 unleashed a more complex wave of domestic terrorism in comparison to the waves of terrorism the country encountered decades ago.

 19 October 2016

Libyan Political Economy: Political Conflict, Crisis Management and Structural Reform

The ongoing political division and armed conflict in Libya have overshadowed the critical stage Libyan economy has reached. Libya’s only source of income, oil exports, became an integral dimension of the conflict.

 6 October 2016

ISIS Administrative and Territorial Organization

The structure of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is very much a product of the organization’s ideological evolution and a reflection of its intended future.

 28 September 2016

Terrorism and the Risk Society

Fifteen years on from 9/11 and in the wake of the attacks in Paris, Brussels and many other places, the complex debate on the nature, consequences and social perceptions of terrorism continues unresolved.

 23 August 2016

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