By Fabrice Balanche|2023-09-11T19:20:25+02:0011 September 2023|Analysis, Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria|
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 [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-05-11T09:38:59+02:0011 May 2023|Media, Syria|
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 [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-05-09T08:58:44+02:007 May 2023|Analysis, Syria|
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 [...]
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|2023-04-02T10:08:51+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 [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-02T14:22:44+02:0015 March 2023|Lebanon, Publication, Syria|
Syria and Lebanon are now two states under foreign influence, fragmented by ethnic, religious and tribal antagonisms that seem irreducible. Beyond international geopolitics and the Arab-Israeli conflict, the causes of their respective failures are also [...]
