By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-23T21:30:51+02:0023 April 2023|Middle-East, Publication|
Syrian mercenaries against Karabakh Article published in Haut-Karabakh: le livre noir, edited by Eric Denécée and Tigrane Yégavian. Ellipses, French Center for Intelligence Research, Paris, 2022 During its offensive against Karabakh, Azerbaijan used Syrian mercenaries. [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-02T13:46:21+02:002 April 2023|Maps, Middle-East, Near-East|
Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States has converted to the Israeli doctrine with regard to the Arab and Muslim world. Gunboat diplomacy prevailed: Afghanistan and Iraq for the US; Lebanon and [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-02T11:58:29+02:002 April 2023|Maps, Near-East|
Map published in Atlas of Near East, Brill, Amsterdam, 2017 On December 14, 1981, Israel officially annexed the Golan Heights occupied since 1967 by its army. This measure complicates its possible return to Syria because [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-02T10:21:28+02:002 April 2023|Analysis, Iraq|
In an exclusive interview for the CFRI, Fabrice Balanche discusses the current state of the Iraqi economic, heavily dependent on its oil exports. He explains why he thinks western companies could potentially do business with [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-02T12:11:51+02:002 April 2023|Near-East, Publication|
Cover Atlas of the Near East: State Formation and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1918-2010 The Atlas of the Near East offers an in-depth examination of the economic, social, and demographic dynamics of the Arab Near [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-02T10:17:37+02:002 April 2023|Expertise, Iraq, Middle-East, Syria|
In 2018, the World Bank in cooperation with GIZ (German cooperation) launched an applied research program on reconstruction in countries affected by conflict in North Africa and the Middle East (Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya). [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-02T10:13:59+02:002 April 2023|Expertise, Kurdistan, Syria|
This report aims to focus on the internal situation in North-East Syria in particular the relations between the Arab tribes and the Local Administration, Kurds and Arabs, the potential for destabilization coming from the Syrian [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-02T10:10:03+02:002 April 2023|Media, Middle-East|
Interview for the Algerian newspaper Horizons Published on April 1, 2023 Fabrice Balanche, specialist in Syria, analyzes the changes observed in the position of certain Arab countries vis-à-vis Syria. According to him, the earthquake that [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-02T10:08:51+02:002 April 2023|Iraq, Kurdistan, Near-East, Publication, Syria|
Published on March 4, 2023 in Groupe d'Etudes Géopolitiques In November of 2022, Turkey bombed Kurdish forces in Syria and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) in Northern Iraq in retaliation for the attack in Istanbul [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-02T10:20:09+02:0028 March 2023|Communitarianism, Publication, Syria|
This study, illustrated with 70 original maps and graphics, fosters a deeper understanding of the role sectarianism has played in Syria's war and reassesses the notion that the regime's divisive efforts singlehandedly transformed the secular [...]
