Eurasia

Israel is seeking to test a plan that includes a new engineering of society in the Gaza Strip, by creating “humanitarian bubbles” and contracting private security companies to manage them, in a way that threatens to cause structural changes in the geography and demographics of the Strip. The northernmost areas …

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published captured documents on October 23 indicating that six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza are members of either Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The IDF has released other documents tying Al Jazeera correspondents to terrorist organizations, but the latest documents provide the most detailed …

The precise nature of the recent Israeli strikes into Iran has partially obscured the serious damage these strikes inflicted on critical Iranian defense and military infrastructure. These strikes could disrupt Iranian ballistic missile production and leave Iran more vulnerable to future strikes, however. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted precise …

Les BRICS sont uniques en ce sens qu’il s’agit d’une communauté de pays qui n’est pas un bloc monolithique, qui ne se fixe pas d’objectifs militaires et qui ne se crée pas d’ennemis à partir de rien. Le contraste avec les alliances occidentales est évident – celles-ci sont construites selon …

Le sommet des BRICS à Kazan a marqué la fin de la domination du G7 sur le monde. Les règles anglo-saxonnes qui organisaient les relations internationales seront progressivement remplacées par les engagements pris par chacun qui devront désormais être respectés. Cette révolution nous ramène aux tentatives de la Russie et …

The assassination of Sinwar places Hamas at a crossroads at various organizational, political and military levels, especially in the context of the course of the war in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, and the movement’s role on the day after the war, which may affect its alliances and relations internally …

The Yemeni civil war erupted in late 2014 when the Houthi insurgent movement captured large swathes of the country, including the capital of Sana’a. By the following year, Yemen had become a key battleground in the Iran–Saudi proxy conflict. While Saudi Arabia and its allies waged war in support ofYemen’s …

Over the past decade, Iran’s regime has been involved in collaborations with criminal actors across the world, seeking to assassinate critics and adversaries, procure materials to advance its nuclear programme, circumvent international sanctions and money-laundering controls, and fund armed groups and terrorist organizations that have carried out horrific attacks. JR-Malley-Irans-critical-statecraft-How-Tehran-weaponizes-illicit-markets-GI-TOC-October-2024Download

Georgia is at the center of a political and geopolitical confrontation, with allegations of electoral fraud fueled by suspicions of pro-Russian interference. While President Salome Zurabishvili denounces vote rigging, imprisoned pro-European former President Mikheil Saakashvili calls for mobilization to protect the country’s European future. This crisis raises crucial questions for …

Bulgaria is back in very familiar territory. The October 27 parliamentary elections gave former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov’s center-right GERB party the most votes, but not enough to form a government on its own. Borisov will certainly try. But despite winning five out of seven parliamentary elections since 2021, GERB …