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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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Five Years after the US-Led Invasion: Iraq betwixt Failed State and Emerging Taliban-Democracy

As the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion is marked, Iraq’s transition to normality is still overshadowed by the spectres of a failed state with inter- and intra-communal un-civil war and mafia lawlessness.

 9 September 2008

Gaza and the West Bank and the Source of Recent Problems in Palestine

Law and order needs to be the mantra of the unity government if Palestinian leaders from all factions expect the pessimistic Palestinian public to have faith in them again.

 3 September 2008

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: 2007, a Pivotal Year

Although 1997 could be regarded as a year of massacres, 2007 is unquestionably the year of the suicide bomber.

 27 August 2008

Al Qaeda en el Magreb, entre terror y bandolerismo

La conexión entre ‘yihadismo’ y los asaltos –secuestro de occidentales, tráfico de drogas, explotación de inmigrantes ilegales– es evidente.

 21 June 2008

Seguridad en el norte de África

La percepción de una amenaza contra los intereses nacionales y los ingresos masivos procedentes del petróleo han impulsado la carrera armamentística en la región.

 21 June 2008

La locura del armamento se apodera del Magreb

Mientras España y Francia se inclinan por vender su material militar a Libia y Argelia, clientes tradicionales de Rusia, ésta intenta abrir mercado en Marruecos.

 21 June 2008

Carrera armamentística en el Magreb

Las rivalidades internas, la competencia geoestratégica y el fantasma de Al Qaeda explicarían el frenesí de Argelia, Marruecos y Libia por rearmarse.

 21 June 2008

Population, Human Development and Human Security in Arab Mediterranean Countries

Achieving higher levels of human development would contribute to an easing of domestic and regional tensions.

 7 May 2008

Shared Basin Management (Conflict versus Cooperation). A Case Study: the Nile Basin

In the face of population growth, rampant urbanisation, industrialisation and environmental degradation, shared basin management has proved to be synonymous to conflict management.

 7 May 2008

Arms Race in the Mediterranean

The Middle East has repeatedly had the dubious distinction of being the region with the world’s largest arms imports.

 29 April 2008

Shared Basin Management (Disputes Vs Cooperation). A Case Study: Israel-Palestine

Water issues in the Middle East are often portrayed as an international problem with opposing states competing for resources that are becoming inexorably scarcer. Such a perception prevents us from understanding the multi-scalar interactions .

 21 April 2008
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Al-Qaida au Sud de la Méditerranée

La matrice pakistano-afghane d’une organisation dirigée par un Saoudien déchu a détourné Al-Qaida de la rive sud de la Méditerranée, vue au mieux comme un espace de transit vers d’autres terres de jihad.

 14 January 2008