Eurasia

In a significant development amid one of the most turbulent periods in Palestinian political life, President Mahmoud Abbas, 89, has appointed senior official Hussein al-Sheikh as his deputy—his most direct move yet to address questions about his succession. The decision, announced during the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza, has stirred …

New orders issued to Israeli military commanders say freeing captives held by Hamas is the least important concern, focusing instead on control of Gaza. New Israeli military orders presented to commanders on Tuesday listed the rescue of captives held by Hamas in Gaza as the least important priority, the Israeli …

The Flamingo naval base, where Sudan’s army has set up a temporary headquarters, is under heavy attack by the RSF militia The Sudanese army’s main naval base, Flamingo, has become the latest target of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, amid the ongoing civil war in the country. On Thursday, …

Ramzan Kadyrov requested that Russian President Vladimir Putin grant him leave from his position as the leader of the Chechen Republic in Russia. Kadyrov has been the leader of the Chechen Republic since 2007 and has been the dominant power there since the death of his father, Akhmed, the previous …

Enlargement and geopolitics are polar opposites. Geopolitics is fast and unstoppable. Enlargement is slow and eminently stoppable. Geopolitics is disruptive, divisive, and often follows a zero-sum logic. Enlargement is transformative, unifying, and the ultimate positive-sum game. Previous EU enlargements, of course, also had a geopolitical dimension. They were first about …

On parle de fondamentalisme idéologique lorsque l’idéologie convainc le public que la politique est une lutte entre le bien et le mal. Les gens n’évaluent plus les États en fonction de ce qu’ils font dans le système international, mais en fonction des identités politiques qui leur sont attribuées. Kenneth Waltz, …

Bien que le monde ait clairement cessé d’être unipolaire, les États-Unis s’efforcent de maintenir leurs instruments de contrôle. De plus, si, auparavant, cela se faisait de manière voilée (le concept de leadership mondial et de multilatéralisme sous Barack Obama), Donald Trump a décidé d’agir de manière agressive, provoquant un grand …

D’ores et déjà, la Moldavie semble avoir pris le même chemin que l’Ukraine. Comme le régime néo-nazi de Kiev, le gouvernement moldave cède les terres et les ressources naturelles du pays à des groupes privés étrangers, faisant preuve d’une soumission absolue et d’un manque total de souveraineté. Cette mesure est …

Une introduction au pays que Donald Trump s’apprête, paraît-il, à bombarder, et aux conséquences que cela peut entraîner, s’il ne s’agit pas seulement d’une menace proférée par un homme puissant. L’Iran (en persan, Eran Shahr «Royaume des Aryens»), historiquement la Perse, a une population de près de 90 millions d’habitants …

Israel will use any excuse to divide and weaken the region. That is the end game, precisely what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes is the way to hammer together a new Middle East. The geopolitical fallout from the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel has provided him and his …