Fabrice Balanche Winner of the Conflits Award 2024
I am very proud to be honored with the Conflits Award 2024 for my last book: Lessons from the Syrian crisis, published by Odile Jacob, in March 2024. Conflits is in line with the French [...]
What we did not understand in Syria
Original article from Le Figaro written by Charles Jaigu CHRONICLE – Geographer Fabrice Balanche offers a powerful analysis of the Syrian war. This excellent teacher of a confusing reality dismantles once and for all the faults [...]
After 13 years of conflict, Syria is a failed state
March 14, 2024, Fabrice Balanche for North Press Agency Fabrice Balanche is lecturer at Lyon University, adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute. He published : "Les leçons de la crise syrienne" (In French), Paris, Odile Jacob, [...]
The end of 25 years of Western hegemony over the world
Video interview in French Fabrice Balanche, lecturer in geography at Lyon 2, is the guest for 6 minutes for his book, Lessons from the Syrian Crisis, published by Odile Jacob. The interview is carried out [...]
“Iran perfectly uses Shiite difficulties and local conflicts to create militias in the Middle East.” Interview with Fabrice Balanche
Iran is increasingly extending its influence across the Middle East and beyond, particularly through militias its control in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. Fabrice Balanche is a assistant Profesor at the University of Lyon 2, [...]
From Kirkuk to Deir ez-Zor: Threatened Kurdish Autonomies
Can the riots in Kirkuk be compared to the insurrection in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, where Arab tribes from the Euphrates Valley took up arms to oust the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces? An analysis by Fabrice [...]
From Kirkuk to Deir ez-Zor: Threatened Kurdish Autonomies
Can the riots in Kirkuk be compared to the insurrection in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, where Arab tribes from the Euphrates Valley took up arms to oust the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces? An analysis by Fabrice [...]
Syria’s return to the Arab League: ‘The earthquake accelerated the rehabilitation process’
Interview for France 24 (in French), May 11, 2023. By Bahar MAKOOI Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, guest of the next Arab League summit scheduled for May 19 in Saudi Arabia. Something unthinkable a few months [...]
Syria Is Back to the Arab League
The Arab League has returned to Syria after 11 years of suspension. It is a victory for Syria but also for Saudi Arabia, which is asserting itself as the master of clocks on the Arab [...]
World Bank: “Building for peace in North Africa and the Middle East” 2018-2020
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). [...]