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Analysis of crisis factors in the Middle East, transformed by the war in Syria and the persistence of the Israeli-Arab conflict, where issues of sovereignty and borders complicate humanitarian problems.

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Israel-Africa Relations: What Can We Learn from the Netanyahu Decade?

Date de publication
04 November 2020
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Since he came to power in 2009, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not made Israeli-African relations a priority in his foreign policy.

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RAMSES 2021. At the Edge?

Date de publication
02 September 2020
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RAMSES 2021. At the Edge?, written by Ifri's research team and external experts, offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of geopolitics in today’s world.

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L’Iran et ses “proxys” au Moyen-Orient. Les défis de la guerre par procuration

Date de publication
30 March 2020
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If Iran is a key player in the Middle East, it is in no small part because of its extensive network of armed militia, which it uses as proxies.

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The Gulf: New Center of the Middle East?

Date de publication
10 March 2020
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Amid the shift in major powers, the Persian Gulf is asserting its position at the heart of the Middle East.

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Understanding the Resilience of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Date de publication
10 September 2018
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The leaders of Iran nurture regional ambitions, and are conscious of the limits of their country’s power.

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General El-Sisi’s Egypt: Reaction and Revolutionary Aspirations

Date de publication
05 March 2018
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The Egyptian presidential election of spring 2018 will, in all likelihood, result in Abdel Fattah El-Sisi maintaining power, given the tight control over the opposition.

Trade without Religion between Turkey and Syria

Date de publication
24 March 2017
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A saying claims that trade has no religion; it even adapts to a war situation, as demonstrated by the real-time reorganisation of trade channels at the Turkish-Syrian border. 

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The Future Middle East Strategic Balance. Conventional and Unconventional Sources of Instability

Date de publication
13 September 2016
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This paper seeks to analyze the future Middle Eastern military balance of power, in a time horizon of five to ten years.

Middle East, the new "Great Game"

Date de publication
06 June 2016
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Will a divided Middle East become the center of a new “Great Game”? The world’s global powers are aligned in it: the United States, falsely tempted by retraction; Russia, establishing its position in an unexpected state of play, France, destabilized by the contradictions of its own policy… In addition are tussles for regional hegemony between Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.

Russia in the Middle East: Back to a “Grand Strategy” – or Enforcing Multilateralism?

Date de publication
06 June 2016
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Russian military intervention in Syria was not an attempt to exert dominance as a hegemonic power in the Middle East.

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Süleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul, Türkiye
Turkey/Middle East Program
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Ifri's Turkey/Middle East Program aims to provide expertise on the trends and developments in politics, societies and economies across the region.

The programme has the following objectives:

  • Proposing a new approach towards the MENA region through an analysis of local, regional, and international dynamics with the potential to guide and influence new policies.
  • Highlighting the role of foreign powers which have traditionally been present in the region and analyzing the new role taken on by emerging countries ;
  • Anticipating new directions and outlooks in each country.
  • Interpreting risks and potentials and putting forward new templates for analysis.

The programme has built a dense network of researchers and experts who provide expertise on the MENA region and working together on a range of crosscutting themes.

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