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    5:30 pm May 2022

    حديث الثلاثاء: قراءة في نتائج الانتخابات الرئاسية الفرنسية

    يخصص مركز السياسات من أجل الجنوب الجديد حلقة برنامجه الأسبوعي "حديث الثلاثاء" لقراءة في نتائج الانتخابات الرئاسية الفرنسية مع عبد السلام جلدي، باحث في العلاقات الدولية والسياسات العامة بمركز السياسات من أجل الجنوب الجديد. أدت الانتخابات الرئاسية الفرنسية لعام 2022 إلى إعادة انتخاب الرئيس المنتهية ولايته إيمانويل ماكرون، على حساب مرشحة التجمع الوطني مارين لوبان، مؤكدة إعادة التشكيل السياسي الذي يميز المشهد السياسي الفرنسي منذ انتخابات 2017، في بلد منقسم أكثر من أي وقت مضى، والذي يواجه، علاوة على ذلك، تحديات اقتصادية وجيوسياسية كبيرة. نعود خلال هاته الحلقة إلى فحص نتائج الانتخابات الرئاسية، تداعياتها المحتملة، فضلاً عن مستقبل ولاية ماكرون الثاني خلال الخمس سنوات المقبلة، وكدى مستقبل العلاقات الفرنسية المغربية، أسئلة وغيرها نناقشها مع عبد السلام جلدي، باحث في العلاقات الدولية ...

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    3:00 pm April 2022

    حديث الثلاثاء :مستقبل العلاقات المغربية الاسبانية

    يخصص مركز السياسات من أجل الجنوب الجديد حلقة برنامجه الأسبوعي "حديث الثلاثاء" لمستقبل العلاقات المغربية الاسبانية مع العربي الجعايدي، باحث بارز بمركز السياسات من أجل الجنوب الجديد عرفت العلاقة الثنائية المغربية الإسبانية تطوّرًا ملحوظًا مع إعلان الحكومة الإسبانية مساندتها لمبادرة الحكم الذاتي التي يطرحها المغرب لحلحلة النزاع على صحرائه وإثبات سيادة الرباط على أقاليمه الجنوبية. وأتت هذه الخطوة الاسبانية لتحسين العلاقات الثنائية مع جارها الجنوبي ولإعادة بناء العلاقة على أسس سليمة تمكّن البلدين من الانخراط المشترك في مشروع يهدف الى تحقيق علاقة استراتيجية ومتوازنة وإيجابية تتسم بالشفافية ومقاربة متوازنة. فما هي أهم الإشكاليات والتحديات التي تقف أمام تحقيق هذا الهدف؟ نعود خلال هاته الحلقة إلى أهم التحديات التي تقف أمام تحقيق هذا الهدف المنشود والذي يتمثل في تحسين العلاقات الثنا ...

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    5:30 pm March 2022

    حديث الثلاثاء : الأزمة الروسية الأوكرانية : من وإلى أين؟

    تشكّل الأزمة الروسية الاوكرانية تحديا جيوسياياً غير مسبوق في القارّة الأوروبيّة منذ الحرب العالمية الثانية. فقد تسبّبت في أكبر نزوح في أوروبا منذ 1945، حيث بلغ عدد النازحين الأوكرانيين الذين هربوا من بلادهم مليوني ونصف نسمة. موازاتاً مع ذلك، عادت الى الواجهة مواضيع كثيرة، نذكر منها امكانية الاصطدام المسلّح بين روسيا وحلف شمال الاطلسي، والحرب النووية. الّا أن انعكاسات الحرب لا تقتصر على اوروبا والغرب، بل تأثّر سلباً على الاقتصاد الدولي ودول الجنوب، وتهدّد الامن الغذائي في دول كثيرة، خاصة في المنطقة العربية وفي افريقيا ولفهم هذه الازمة بمختلف أبعادها ووضعها في سياقاتها النظرية والتاريخية والأمنية ومناقشة تأثيراتها الحاليّة أو المتوقَّعة في المدى القريب، ينظّم مركز السياسات من أجل الجنوب الجديد حلقة خاصّة من برنامج حديث الثلاثاء ستركّز على الأحداث الجارية في اوكرانيا وستطرح فرضي ...

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    5:30 pm March 2022

    Africafé : Sommet UE-Afrique

    Africafé est une émission du Policy Center for the New South qui décrypte l’actualité des organisations africaines et de l’Afrique. A travers de courtes interviews, l’émission tente de proposer d’aborder de manière pédagogique les enjeux des organisations africaines et l’actualité du continent. Dans cet épisode Abdessalam Jaldi international Relations Specialist au Policy Center for the New South, présente les enjeux du dernier sommet UE-Afrique, les principales conclusions et les propositions de refonte de la relation entre les deux continents. ...

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    8:00 pm March 2022

    حديث الثلاثاء: إلى أي مدى إستجابت القمة الأوروبية/الإفريقية الأخيرة لتطلعات القارة الإفريقية؟

    يخصص مركز السياسات من أجل الجنوب الجديد حلقة برنامجه الأسبوعي "حديث الثلاثاء" لتقييم مخرجات القمة الاوروبية الافريقية ونموذج الشراكة الجديدة بين الطرفين، مع محمد لوليشكي، باحث بارز لدى مركز السياسات من أجل الجنوب الجديد. خلال القمة السادسة التي جمعت الاتحاديين في بروكسل وضع الاتحاد الأوروبي ونظيره الأفريقي أسس نوع جديد من الشراكة من أجل إعادة صياغة "شراكة متجددة" في سياقات تأرجحت فيها نقاشات الأطراف بين الأمن والاستثمارات والهجرة، حيث انتهت القمة بجملة من الوعود والاستراتيجيات والالتزامات من شأنها تمكين القارتين من قيادة مستقبلها المشترك في تضامن وأمن وسلام وتنمية مستدامة.    نعود خلال هاته الحلقة إلى أهم مكاسب القارة الإفريقية من هذا المؤتمر، نبذة عن أولويات هذه الشراكة الجديدة بين الاتحادين، تقييم حجم التزامات الاتحاد الأوروبي تجاه الاتحاد الافريقي، والى أي مدى هي كفيلة ب ...
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    Retrospective Analysis of the 2024 European Elections: The European Parliament Renews Itself in a Europe Facing Significant Transitions
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    Abdessalam Saad Jaldi
    July 12, 2024
    The European Elections of 2024 were marked by a significant surge in sovereigntist parties at the expense of liberals and greens, while moderate right and left-wing parties also made notable gains. Despite the substantial wins and losses during this election, no single bloc emerged with the overall majority of 361 seats in the European Parliament. The impression from the new political balances emerging from the 2024 elections is that the European People's Party, which won the electo ...
  • Partenariat UE-Mauritanie : Enjeux & Défis
    June 19, 2024
    Quels sont les enjeux et défis du partenariat entre l'Union européenne et la Mauritanie ? Dans cette vidéo, Amal El Ouassif, notre spécialiste des relations internationales, explore le contexte, les dynamiques et les perspectives de cette coopération stratégique, sujet de son Policy Bri...
  • The new EuroMediterranean context: What direction for the Morocco-European Union partnership?
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    Rachid El Houdaigui
    May 24, 2024
    This Paper was originally published on euromesco.net   In 2004 the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) became the policy framework setting the scene for EU interactions with its neighbours. The launch of this policy framework occurred in a context of relative stability and peace in Europe’s neighbourhood, at a time when the EU was redrawing its borders through the 2004 big bang enlargement. Nonetheless, the ENP was doomed to face a panoply of conflicts, crises, and even wars. No o ...
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    Le partenariat Union européenne-Mauritanie : le contexte, les enjeux et les défis
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    Amal El Ouassif
    May 3, 2024
    En mars 2024, la Commission européenne a annoncé, à Bruxelles, le lancement d'un partenariat sur les migrations avec la Mauritanie. Ylva Johanasson, Commissaire aux affaires intérieures, et Mohamed Ahmed Ould Mohamed Lemine, ministre mauritanien de l'Intérieur et de la décentralisation, ont signé une déclaration commune officialisant ledit partenariat. La Commission européenne a annoncé les principes directeurs de l'accord, qui résonnent sans surprise avec le dernier pact ...
  • Europe's Political Landscape: The Steady Rise of the Right and Its Implications - Conversation with Hubert Vedrine
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    Helmut Sorge
    April 25, 2024
    A Sharp Right Turn Hubert Vedrine is a foreign affairs veteran, named conseiller diplomatique to French President Francois Mitterrand at the age of 34, and subsequently appointed Secretary General of the Elysee’s Presidential Office, by the Socialist, managing his policies from the Elysée Palace in Paris. For five years, Vedrine served France as foreign minister, under the ‘cohabitation’ government (1997 to 2002), led by the conservative head of state, Jacques Chirac, and the Socia ...
  • A Diplomatic Misstep: Ukraine, Russia, and the Risks of Escalation
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    Helmut Sorge
    April 24, 2024
    A diplomatic approach is not alien to the church in Rome, used to keeping secrets. This reputation has made the Pope and his cardinals trusted mediators in world affairs. It was a surprise, then, when Pope Francis lost his sense of neutrality and suggested to war-torn Ukraine that it should raise the white flag in its conflict with Russia. In an interview with TV channel Radio Television Suisse, the Pope insisted that he believes “that those who have the courage to raise the white f ...
  • حديث الثلاثاء: تأنيث الهجرة في المغرب: واقع النساء العاملات في الفلاحة بين المغرب وإسبانيا
    April 23, 2024
    نخصص حلقة الأسبوع من برنامج "حديث الثلاثاء" لموضوع تأنيث الهجرة في المغرب، من خلال دراسة وضع النساء المغربيات العاملات في مجال الفلاحة. استنادا إلى بحث ميداني أُجري في جهة سوس ماسة لاستقصاء الديناميات والتحديات التي تعترض هذه الفئة، مقارنة بوضع نظيراتهن المغربيات العاملات في القطاع ذاته...
  • Crisis Management: Lessons form Türkiye's Response to the 2023 Earthquakes
    January 19, 2024
      In February 2023, Türkiye’s south and Syria’s north experienced a series of devastating earthquakes, the death toll of which reached about 60 000 people. In spite of the relative economic weight of Türkiye (11th nominal GDP worldwide in purchasing power parity), of a long history of ...
  • L'Union européenne enclenche la phase transitoire du Mécanisme d'Ajustement Carbone aux Frontières : quelles conséquences pour l'Afrique ?
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    Rim Berahab
    November 2, 2023
    Le 1er octobre 2023 a marqué le début de la phase transitoire du Mécanisme d'Ajustement Carbone aux Frontières (CBAM en anglais) de l'Union européenne (UE). L'objectif de cette initiative est d'instaurer une tarification du carbone sur les biens importés qui soit équivalente à celle appliquée aux biens produits au sein de l'UE, visant ainsi à réguler les émissions de carbone. Cette démarche implique la mise en place d'un ensemble d'obligations de déclaration et de conformité pour le ...
  • EU-Africa Relations: Energy and the Green Transition in an Era of Crises A New Model of Cooperation
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    Len Ishmael
    October 25, 2023
    This report was originally published on hss.de   This report presents an analysis and recommendations regarding EU-Africa relations with a focus on the green transition and energy, the first priority area of the EU’s Comprehensive Strategy with Africa. It aims at identifying the areas in climate and energy policy in which jointly owned cooperation is possible, and how the partnership, ultimately, can unlock mutual benefits. Specifically, the report examines global challenges prese ...
  • Despair at the Door: Europe's Difficult Response to the Enduring Migration Crisis
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    Helmut Sorge
    October 19, 2023
    The headline itself was not surprising: ”Egyptians face peril at sea in dangerous new Exodus to  Europe”. The path, from hidden Egyptian ports to a neighboring Libyan landing spot and then to the Italian coast, has been tempting thousand Egyptians years ago, but recently, and apparently ever since, reported Ruth Michaelson in the British “Guardian” (December 18, 2022), the escape route has been “resurrected”, more than 20,000 Egyptians arrived last year in Italy via Libya, about thr ...
  • Technologies and Borders
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    Alberto Tagliapietra
    October 5, 2023
    This brief was originally published in gmfus.org   The EU is increasing, at home and abroad, its use of state-of-the-art technologies in its border management. But guarantees of their consistently appropriate use are lacking. Migration increasingly involves digital tools. Internet, smartphones, and social media are of paramount importance for people on the move. Border management is also becoming more digitalized, with technological tools being used to accelerate legal internatio ...
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    Gas Crisis in Europe: A Harbinger of Sustainable Cooperation with North Africa
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    Afaf Zarkik
    September 15, 2023
    This paper was originally published on iai.it Europe’s natural gas system experienced unprecedented stress following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Since the outbreak of the war, the European Union has strived to secure alternative supplies, fill its gas storage facilities and reduce consumption. Success on these fronts was enabled by fundamental market changes that the bloc unlocked during a long period of low gas prices over the past two decades, in addition to emergency and diplo ...
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    Moving Europe and Africa towards more common ground on climate and energy
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    Alfonso Medinilla
    Larabi Jaïdi
    Afaf Zarkik
    September 5, 2023
    This paper was originally published on ecdpm.org   COP27 reached a breakthrough agreement on a new loss and damage fund for vulnerable countries and opened the door for a review of the international financial architecture. Ahead of COP28 at the end of 2023, the AU-EU partnership can help drive global climate change and energy transition agendas forward. A fruitful collaboration between the two continents starts with the following: • Africa and Europe must find common ground to ma ...
  • Unveiling Power Dynamics: The West and the Global South
    by Hala Boumaiz & Len Ishmael
    September 01, 2023
    In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Len Ishmael, editor and co-author of the book “Aftermath of War in Europe: The West VS. the Global South?”. Dr. Ishmael delves into the groundbreakin ...
  • Rising Use of Local Currencies in Cross-Border Payments
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    Otaviano Canuto
    August 29, 2023
    At the August 22-24 BRICS summit in Johannesburg, the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa said they wanted to use more of their national currencies for cross-border payments, which are currently dominated by the U.S. dollar and other global convertible currencies. Like China and the other BRICS, several other countries have also sought to develop alternative external payment mechanisms. Pairs of countries have agreed to settle commercial and financial transactio ...
  • حديث الثلاثاء : العلاقات الروسية الافريقية في ظل النسخة الثانية من قمة روسيا – أفريقيا
    August 15, 2023
    يخصص مركز السياسات من أجل الجنوب الجديد حلقة برنامجه الأسبوعي "حديث الثلاثاء" لمناقشة العلاقات الروسية الافريقية في ظل النسخة الثانية من قمة روسيا – أفريقيا مع أسامة الطيبي، باحث في العلاقات الدولية بمركز السياسات من أجل الجنوب الجديد. أصبحت القمم ومنتديات التعاون الية من اليات تعزيز تو...
  • Helping One Million Refugees – How to Use Technology to Facilitate Integration in Germany
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    Fritjof Knier
    August 9, 2023
    Fritjof Knier is a 2022 alumnus of Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders program. Learn more about him here. Twice in the past decade the term “largest refugee movement since the Second World War” was coined in Germany and Europe. First in 2015 with many refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran arriving and seven years later in 2022 when the war against Ukraine led millions to flee towards the West. Now, Germany has grown to become the fourth largest refugee hosting nation, h ...
  • Twenty-Four Hours of Turmoil: The Wagner Uprising and Its Far-Reaching Impact on Russia and Beyond
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    Helmut Sorge
    August 4, 2023
    Twenty-Four Hours June 23-24, 2023. Over those days, Russia, the sanctioned world power, was not destabilized by the nuclear enemy in Washington, but by one man, who made his wealth serving food to school children and soldiers. A caterer who attempted a revolution. A bald man, who apparently wore wigs during his days off, as the Russian secret police claimed to have discovered when they searched his home in St Petersburg. The photos of the wig-wearing Yevgeny Prigozhin were shown o ...
  • Energy Transition in the Mediterranean: What Challenges and Potentials ?
    August 4, 2023
    The energy crisis has heavily impacted energy transition plans and roadmaps of many Mediterranean countries and has highlighted the question of how to move ahead with the decarbonisation of Mediterranean energy while securing economic development and the uninterrupted availability of po...
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    Navigating the CBAM Transitional Period: Understanding the Latest Developments, and Enhancing Preparedness
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    Rim Berahab
    July 21, 2023
    The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) has emerged as an important policy tool in the European Union's (EU) efforts to combat climate change and prevent carbon leakage. By putting a price on carbon emissions embedded in certain goods imported into the EU, the CBAM has the potential to impact economies worldwide, including Morocco. This policy brief examines recent CBAM developments and assesses their implications for Morocco's economy and climate change efforts. It analyzes t ...
  • The Weaponization of Food: Ukraine's Struggle for Survival and its Global Consequences
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    Helmut Sorge
    June 15, 2023
    If you search on “Google” for a pizzeria in Kyiv, you have many choices, such as “Mimosa Brooklyn Pizza”, “Mamamia”, or “Vesuveo”.  If bombs or supersonic missiles do not scare you, more formal dining pleasures exist. “Feel like a star”, reads one of the ads for the “Matisse”, located on the 15th floor of the “Cityhotel” in the historic part of town - an eatery 52 meters up could be a tempting target for Russian missile attacks. Wladimir Klitschko, a former world heavyweight boxing- ...
  • War in Ukraine: Unleashing Innovation and Unseen Frontiers
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    Helmut Sorge
    June 8, 2023
    A tragedy of historic proportions The war is gruesome and may not end for months or years. Not ending with the white flag of surrender, but total depletion and exhaustion, men and missiles, tanks, and terror. The battlefield is hell, as it is in all wars. A nightmare and human folly. “We are learning in Ukraine how to fight”, admitted the former President of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskalte, “and we are learning how to use our NATO equipment. It is a teaching battle”. Yes, this politi ...
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    Driving The Dream: Morocco's Rise In The Global Automotive Industry
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    Abdelmonim AMACHRAA
    May 17, 2023
    Nothing better illustrates the positive contribution of the integration of national economies into global value chains than the fact that in the 1990s, the automotive sector barely existed in Morocco. Now, it is the leading export sector, with a production and assembly capacity of 700,000 vehicles, making it an attractive and competitive hub linking Africa and Europe in the automotive value chain. However, the automotive industry is on the cusp of change, with advances in electric a ...
  • The Energy Map of the Atlantic
    Rim Berahab & Ana Ayuso Pozo
    May 05, 2023
    This podcast examines current trends in energy production and consumption in the Atlantic region. It discusses the challenges facing the energy sector due to the outbreak of Covid-19 and ...
  • Italy's Maghreb policy
    Abdessalam Jaldi & Aldo Liga
    April 14, 2023
    Geographical proximity, historical ties, and cultural and social exchanges largely account for Italy’s enduring engagement with the Maghreb. Abdessalam Jaldi, International Relations Spec ...
  • Towards One Goal - Will World Cup Bids "Kick Off' Regional Co-Development?
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    Hala Boumaiz
    April 7, 2023
    In an attempt to bring the World Cup back to Europe and Africa, Morocco has joined Spain and Portugal in a three-way bid to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup. While there are still talks of Ukraine remaining in the bid, the three confirmed countries are hoping to score big with major economic, cultural, and political benefits. Although not as large as the Olympics in terms of logistics, the FIFA World Cup is one of the most prestigious and watched sporting events in the world. Early figu ...
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    Les monnaies numériques des banques centrales : où en est-on ? Où va-t-on ?
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    Christian de Boissieu
    April 4, 2023
    Face à l’essor des cryptomonnaies, les banques centrales sont en train de réagir en lançant leurs propres monnaies numériques. L’objet de ce Policy Brief est de faire le point sur la préparation des monnaies numériques de banques centrales (MNBC) par les autorités monétaires, un processus qui concerne tous les pays, émergents, en développement, et plus avancés. Il s’agit aussi d’analyser les conditions et certaines des conséquences (pour les banques, pour l’inclusion fin ...
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    Central Bank digital currencies: where do we stand? Where are we going?
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    Christian de Boissieu
    April 4, 2023
    Faced with the rise of cryptocurrencies, central banks are responding by launching their digital currencies. The purpose of this Policy Brief is to provide an update on the preparation of central bank digital currencies (CBDs) by monetary authorities, a process that concerns all emerging, developing, and more advanced countries. It is also about analyzing the conditions and some of the consequences (for banks, for financial inclusion, for the conduct of monetary policy...) of such a ...
  • Les dessous de la présence militaire russe en Afrique
    Abdelhak Bassou & Imane Lahrich
    March 24, 2023
    Dans ce nouvel épisode, Imane Lahrich accueille Abdelhak Bassou pour discuter des dessous de la présence militaire russe en Afrique. D’un côté, la Russie ambitionne de contrer les ambitio ...
  • Les élections du rejet de l’Autre
    Authors
    Abdallah Saaf
    March 6, 2023
    J’ai suivi depuis les années soixante, avec plus ou moins d’intérêt, plus ou moins de passion, presque toutes les élections, présidentielles, parlementaires ou locales, qui se sont succédées en France. Il y eut des séquences et des épisodes fameux que l’histoire, à la fois la grande et la petite, a retenus. De nombreux analystes et acteurs continuent de s’y référer. De toutes ces élections, celles qui se sont déroulées en 2022 sont celles qui ont fait le plus souffrir, de nombreux ...
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    Les relations militaires entre la Russie et l’Afrique, avant et après la guerre en Ukraine
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    Abdelhak Bassou
    March 6, 2023
    En partenariat avec le Policy Center for the New South (PCNS), Africa Center est fier de présenter un rapport conjoint sur l’influence de la Russie en Afrique, une perspective sécuritaire, à l’occasion du premier anniversaire de la guerre en Ukraine. L’Afrique est apparue comme un acteur majeur de ce conflit lorsque le 3 mars 2022 , dix-sept Etats africains se sont abstenus lors du vote de la résolution de l’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies condamnant l’invasion russe en Ukrain ...
  • The position of Spain and Europe Towards the War in Ukraine
    March 4, 2023
    In this video recorded during the Atlantic Dialogues, our Columnist Mr. Helmut Sorge interviews Ms. Ana Palacio, Spain's Former Minister of Foreign Affairs on the position of Spain and Europe towardsthe War in Ukraine, the interview also tackles different questions regarding Energy, sec...
  • The reaction of the NATO amidst the War in Europe
    March 1, 2023
    In this video recorded during the Atlantic Dialogues, our Columnist Mr. Helmut Sorge interviews Mr. Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, President of the NATO Defense College Foundation in Rome on the NATO’s reactions amidst the War in Ukraine, Mr Minuto answers questions on how countries of the Na...
  • Le Monde en période de crises multiples
    February 25, 2023
    Dans cette interview tournée au cours des Atlantic Dialogues, Monsieur Helmut Sorge interroge le Ministre Hubert Védrine sur ses impressions sur un monde aussi troublé qu’aujourd’hui suite à la guerre Russo-Ukrainienne. Monsieur Védrine nous fait part de son analyse ainsi que son étude ...
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    Military Relations Between Russia and Africa, Before and After The War in Ukraine
    Authors
    Abdelhak Bassou
    February 24, 2023
    In a recent telephone conversation, Russian President Vladimir Putin officially invited Assimi Goïta, the military chief of the transition in Mali, to take part in the second Russia-Africa summit to be held in Saint Petersburg. This summit is scheduled for July 2023, according to Mikhail Bogdanov, the special representative of the president of Russia to the Middle East and Africa and deputy foreign minister. Russia is openly optimistic that several African leaders will attend the pl ...
  • Our client in Vienna
    Authors
    Helmut Sorge
    February 20, 2023
    As FBI agent  Charles McGonigal, 54, was used in handcuffs, these metal symbols of repression and the end of freedom. When the former  Special agent in charge( SAC) of the Counter-intelligence Division of the FBIs field office in New York returned from a trip to the Middle East, he suddenly felt the cold iron around his wrists; some of the FBI agents arresting him he certainly knew well-from 1996 until his retirement in 2018 McGonigal specialized in Counterintelligence, organized cr ...
  • The Election in Italy towards the Right Wing Government
    February 18, 2023
    In this video recorded during the Atlantic Dialogues, our Columnist Mr. Helmut Sorge interviews Mr. Vincenzo Amendola, member of the Italian Parliament on his insights about the election in Italy towards the right wing government. Mr. Vincenzo answers questions on wether the present ita...
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    The North Sea: Europe’s Energy Powerhouse
    Authors
    Hamza Mjahed
    February 17, 2023
    The North Sea has been an important energy hub for many European countries for centuries. It is home to many natural resources, from oil and natural gas, to wind and wave energy, making it a powerhouse of energy production. In recent decades, the North Sea has seen significant investment in energy infrastructure and innovation, allowing many of these resources to be harnessed and used to supply energy to much of Europe. Furthermore, the North Sea has become more important for Europe ...
  • AfCFTA and the Creeping Power Play: Africa, the European Union, and China
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    Selassie Tay
    February 15, 2023
    Background The African Union in 2018 agreed to implement the world’s second-largest free-trade area measured by number of countries, people, and geographical size, with the signing of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). This agreement will ultimately lead to a continent-wide free trade area consisting of 54 countries with 1.3 billion people and a combined GDP of $3.4 trillion[1]. This equates to about 19%-20% of the GDP of the European Union and China, which are ...
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    Energy Trends and Outlook Through 2023: Surviving the Energy Crisis While Building a Greener Future
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    Rim Berahab
    February 13, 2023
    The volatility in energy markets since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019/2020 has continued, with unprecedented uncertainty about global energy supply developing over the course of 2022 in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, against a backdrop of weakening macroeconomic conditions and high inflation. While some perceived this as a potential setback for the energy transition, others saw it as an opportunity to move away from fossil fuels and accelerate the developme ...
  • The future of European Security
    Hamza M’jahed & Jonathan Eyal
    February 10, 2023
    The war in Ukraine has been a major destabilizing factor for European security, and its future is now uncertain and complex. Initially, experts thought that the war would provide a geopol ...
  • Les relations UE-Afrique à l’aune de la guerre d’Ukraine
    Abdessalam Saad Jaldi & Thomas Gomart
    February 03, 2023
    Les dirigeants de l’Union européenne et de l’Union africaine ont posé lors du 6ème sommet UE-Afrique qui avait eu lieu à Bruxelles en février 2022 les jalons d’une relation renouvelée, ba ...
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    Souveraineté numérique : politiques européennes, dilemmes américains
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    Mathilde Velliet
    February 1, 2023
    La souveraineté numérique européenne, entendue comme « capacité de l’Europe à agir de façon indépendante dans le monde numérique », a été érigée comme priorité par la Commission d’Ursula Von der Leyen. Du fait de la position privilégiée occupée par les entreprises américaines sur le marché européen, les efforts de Bruxelles en matière de souveraineté numérique sont scrutés de près par les décideurs politiques américains. Ces derniers considèrent souvent les initiatives européennes c ...
  • A Group of Patriots Was Born
    Authors
    Helmut Sorge
    January 30, 2023
    In early January 2023, a man was detained near the Russian-Norwegian border at 1.58 a.m. local time. The night was frost-bite cold and the man, a Russian citizen, had run across the frozen Pasvik River, at a place where it was a few hundred meters wide. He’d jumped some barbed-wired fences, which demarcated the border. The Russian avoided official checkpoints because he was a fugitive, and dogs were following him through the polar night, barking, menacing. Their masters aimed at the ...
  • La Résolution du Parlement européen et la crise maroco-espagnole
    Authors
    Abdallah Saaf
    January 27, 2023
    La Résolution adoptée à une majorité imposante par les élus européens à Strasbourg le 10 juin 2021 sur « la violation de la Convention des Nations unies relative aux droits de l'enfant et l'instrumentalisation des mineurs par les autorités dans la crise migratoire à Ceuta » (2021/2747/CRSP), ne pouvait que faire date. Décrypter la Résolution La Résolution avait choqué les Marocains au point qu'elle a été rapidement mise de côté sur le moment, comme si on voulait l'oublier le plus ...
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    Tendances et perspectives énergétiques à l’horizon 2023 : survivre à la crise énergétique tout en construisant un avenir plus vert
    Authors
    Rim Berahab
    January 23, 2023
    Les fluctuations que connaissent les marchés de l'énergie depuis le début de la pandémie de la Covid-19 en 2019/2020 se sont prolongées, avec une incertitude sans précédent, sur l'approvisionnement énergétique mondial, qui s'est développée au cours de 2022 à la suite de l'invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie, dans un contexte d'affaiblissement de la macroéconomie et d'inflation élevée. Alors que certains voyaient en ce contexte un risque de ralentissement de la transition énergétique ...
  • Confronting Migration Challenges in Italy and the Mediterranean Region
    January 17, 2023
    In this episode with Mr. Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, President of the NATO Defense College Foundation in Rome, explores into the complex challenge confronting Italy and other Mediterranean nations as they grapple with intercepting migrant crossings. This involves exploring the use of milit...
  • Aftermath of War in Europe: The West VS. the Global South?
    Authors
    Abdelaaziz Ait Ali
    Christian Bachheimer
    Rim Berahab
    Otaviano Canuto
    Serhat S. Çubukçuoğlu
    Marcus Vinicius de Freitas
    Amine Ghoulidi
    Len Ishmael
    Rida Lyammouri
    Badr Mandri
    Rahul Sharma
    Isabelle Tsakok
    Kevin Verbelen
    January 17, 2023
    This publication provides an insight into the lens through which countries of the Global South view the current period of successive crises, brought about by an ongoing global pandemic and a war in Europe. It highlights how the combined weight of history, culture, and geography has shaped the Global South’s interests and is influencing its foreign policy stance during one of the most dangerous periods of Great-Power competition in recent times—one that could see the fracturing of th ...
  • On the numerical structure of local and nationwide government spending multipliers: what can we learn from the Greek crisis?
    Authors
    Eduardo Amaral Haddad
    Natalia Q. Cotarelli
    Vinicius A. Vale
    January 10, 2023
    This Paper was originally published on tandfonline.com   It has been recognised that the fiscal multiplier is a function of structural features of the economy and policy reaction parameters. Moreover, the debate on the magnitude of the multiplier along the business cycle has also been the subject of disputed debates. On these grounds, we look at the Greek case by calibrating a NUTS-2 interregional general equilibrium model using data for distinct states of the Greek economy during ...
  • The reaction of the NATO amidst the War in Europe.
    December 16, 2022
    In this video recorded during the Atlantic Dialogues, our Columnist Mr. Helmut Sorge interviews Mr. Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, President of the NATO Defense College Foundation in Rome on the NATO’s reactions amidst the War in Ukraine, Mr Minuto answers questions on how countries of the Na...
  • The position of Spain and Europe towards the War in Ukraine
    December 16, 2022
    In this video recorded during the Atlantic Dialogues, our Columnist Mr. Helmut Sorge interviews Ms. Ana Palacio, Spain's Former Minister of Foreign Affairs on the position of Spain and Europe towards the War in Ukraine, the interview also tackles different questions regarding Energy, se...
  • Perspectives de la crise des matières premières en Europe
    Sabrine Emran & Philippe Chalmin
    December 02, 2022
    Depuis février 2022, l’approvisionnement des matières premières en Europe constitue une des problématiques majeures auquel le continent est affronté. Si les matières premières agricoles s ...
  • Mediterranean Value Chains: between leveraging on the intra-regional growth opportunities and promoting the development
    Authors
    Saloi El Yamani
    Sabrine Emran
    November 25, 2022
    In a global context shaped by a three-dimensional crisis: the Covid-19 crisis, the climate change crisis, and the Russia-Ukraine war, the issues of connectivity, value chains, and the green transition are at the heart of the current policy debates all over the globe. In this regard, the Policy Center for the New South has organized, jointly with the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), a conference on November 2nd, 2022, under the theme “Connectivity, Value Chains, and the Green Tr ...
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    Migration circulaire et intermédiation : enseignements tirés de l’expérience des travailleuses marocaines saisonnières en Espagne
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    Aomar Ibourk
    Karim El Aynaoui
    Tayeb Ghazi
    November 25, 2022
    Le présent travail s’intéresse à la question de l’accompagnement et la réintégration des travailleuses marocaines saisonnières en Espagne. Il met en avance l’existence de déficits à plusieurs niveaux. Des plus importants sont : une inclusion financière et un accompagnement en matière de renforcement de l’employabilité ; un accompagnement en matière d’alphabétisation financière ; un accompagnement en matière de création, et post-création, d'activités génératrices de revenus ; un acco ...
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    DIGITALISE TO INDUSTRIALISE : Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and the Africa–Europe Partnership
    Authors
    Karim El Aynaoui
    Larabi Jaïdi
    Akram Zaoui
    November 24, 2022
    This chapter was originally published in the book "Africa–Europe Cooperation and Digital Transformation", co-edited by Chux Daniels, Benedikt Erfoth, and Chloe Teevan Since the mid-2010s, North African countries have been pursuing what some observers have called a “return to Africa” (Dworkin, 2020). Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia have attempted to position themselves as major components of Europe- Mediterranean-Africa infrastructure and supply chains corridors (Tanchum, 2020). The thr ...
  • Input–output analysis of the Ukraine war: A tool for assessing the internal territorial impacts of the conflict
    Authors
    Eduardo Amaral Haddad
    Inácio F. Araújo
    Ademir Rocha
    Karina Simone Sass
    November 16, 2022
    This publication was originally published in rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com   The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, scaled up the ongoing conflict in Donbas beyond its regional borders, hindering and halting different aspects of economic life. Considering the internal geography of Ukraine's economic structure, the damage to physical infrastructure and supply chain disruption are likely to propagate to other parts of the country through an intricate plot of pro ...
  • European Green Deal, 3 years later
    Rim Berahab & Diana Gherasim
    November 11, 2022
    Since its unveiling in December 2019, The EU Green Deal became one of the EU’s most ambitious policies, aiming at protecting the planet and Europeans from environmental degradations, thro ...
  • حديث الثلاثاء: شمال افريقيا وأزمة الغاز الأوروبية
    October 25, 2022
    واجه الاتحاد الأوروبي خلال السنتين الماضيتين أزمة غير مسبقة في قطاع الطاقة بدأت منذ سنة 2021 واشتدت مع الأزمة الروسية الأوكرانية. فارتفعت أسعار الطاقة عمومًا والغاز على وجه الخصوص ممّا تسبّب في ضغطات مرتفعة على الفاعلين الاقتصاديين مستهلكين كانوا ام شركات. فحاول المفوضية والمجلس الأوروب...
  • The entire international rules-based order is under attack
    Authors
    Helmut Sorge
    October 12, 2022
    A merchant ship passed Turkey’s Bosphorus  Strait on its way from Syria to Russia late last month, observed “Bloomberg”( August 9, 2022), transporting military equipment, including trucks, documented by satellite imagery. The “Sparta II”, a cargo ship leased by Oboronlogistika to the Russian military, was on its way from Tartus to the Black Sea harbor Novorosslysk. No tanks were sighted, or Russian fighter jets, just these trucks, but   the moderate value of the cargo, noted Bloom ...
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    La quête de puissance tous azimuts de la Russie : "Étranger proche", Moyen-Orient et Afrique
    Authors
    Abdelhak Bassou
    September 30, 2022
    Lorsque l’URSS (Union des Républiques socialistes soviétiques) est démantelée ; il s’installe en Occident un sentiment de victoire définitive qui porte au trône du monde la puissance occidentale, démocratique et libérale. La mondialisation, qui avait timidement pointé du nez durant les années 80, commence à s’ériger en occidentalisation du monde. L’Occident n’avait pourtant pas su gérer sa victoire. Au lieu d’intégrer le continuateur de l’URSS, il le marginalise et l’ ...
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    The Territorialization of Cyberspace and GAFAM Geopolitics: Driving Forces and New Risks in the Wake of the Ukrainian Crisis
    Authors
    Mohamed Benabid
    September 26, 2022
    Information is among our planet's most coveted resources, calling upon us to examine how it is incorporated as an object of power and domination into national and international political processes. Tensions around this resource arise not only in territories directly controlled by States, but also in contested territories, including the intangible acceptance of these, as occurs in cyberspace. The Russia-Ukraine war epitomizes this. Having "disconnected" Russia and conversely maintain ...
  • Africa to the rescue of Europe?
    Hamza Mjahed, Soukaina El Majidi
    September 09, 2022
    Key Challenges and Opportunities of African natural gas supplies to Europe. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the African natural gas has emerged as an alternative to Russian na ...
  • The worst since 1945 - Part II
    Authors
    Helmut Sorge
    August 31, 2022
    Boris Johnson has been pushed into giving up  the country’s leadership during a perilous economic moment, noted the “New York Times”( July 7, 2022), leaving behind a grim outlook and an uncertain Brexit legacy. Inflation in the country has reached an annual rate of 9.1 percent, the highest in four decades, driven by supply chain disruptions from pandemic lockdown and the war in Ukraine.  Eshe Nelson draws a sober assessment of the British economy left behind by Boris Johnson: ” Pri ...
  • The old magic was no longer working - Part I
    Authors
    Helmut Sorge
    August 23, 2022
    The rules he followed were his own. Made by Boris for Johnson. From his earliest days, Alexander Boris Johnson noted the BBC (July 7, 2022) “tended to believe rules were for other people.” When he worked as a journalist in Brussel’s decades ago, he unchained his phantasy and filed reports which were close to the truth but more often than not, just fake. “His route to No 10 Downing Street “, writes Jonathan Freedland in the “Guardian “(July 7, 2022), “was smoothed with lies.” Once, h ...
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    Territorialisation du cyberespace et géopolitique des GAFAM : facteurs d'influence et nouveaux risques à la faveur de la crise ukrainienne
    Authors
    Mohamed Benabid
    August 22, 2022
    L’information constitue l’une des ressources les plus convoitées sur la planète, et invite à examiner la manière dont elle s’intègre en tant qu’objet de pouvoir et de domination dans les processus politiques, nationaux et internationaux. Les tensions autour de cette ressource s’expriment non seulement à travers les territoires directement contrôlés par les États mais aussi ceux disputés ou de compétition, y compris dans leur acceptation intangible comme pour le cyberespace. La guerr ...
  • African Hopes and European Needs : Key Challenges for African Gas Supplies to Europe
    Authors
    Hamza Mjahed
    August 17, 2022
    In May 2021, the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) report Net Zero by 2050 stated that there is no need for new investments in oil and gas fields in their net zero pathway[1]. The message was clear: place your next investments in clean energy sources and energy efficiency. However, the IEA’s Africa Energy Outlook 2022 stated that Africa’s industrialisation relies in expanding the use of natural gas[2]. Even the IEA executive director Fatih Birol said, “if we make a list of the top ...
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    Fracturations et institutionnalisation des extrêmes en France : cas des élections présidentielles et législatives de 2017 et 2022
    Authors
    Noureddine Jallal
    August 16, 2022
    Emmanuel Macron é été élu en 2017 président de la République, avec une majorité absolue de députés. Ces deux victoires (présidentielle et législative) ont été possibles grâce à une stratégie qui a consisté à saper le clivage gauche-droite et à construire une majorité présidentielle hybride. Lors de sa réélection en 2022, le paysage politique à bel et bien changé. Tout d’abord, le président de la République n’a pas réussi à avoir la majorité absolue. Les ...
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    Input-Output Analysis of the Ukraine War: A Tool for Assessing the Internal Territorial Impacts of the Conflict
    Authors
    Eduardo Amaral Haddad
    Inácio F. Araújo
    Ademir Rocha
    Karina Sass
    August 12, 2022
    The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, scaled up the ongoing conflict in Donbas beyond its regional borders, hindering and halting different aspects of economic life. Considering the internal geography of Ukraine’s economic structure, the damages to physical infrastructure and supply chain disruptions are likely to propagate to other parts of the country through an intricate plot of production and income linkages. From a disaggregated analysis of multiregional and mul ...
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    La guerre en Ukraine : premiers enseignements à tirer pour la sécurité alimentaire de l'Afrique
    Authors
    Henri-Louis Vedie
    August 5, 2022
    Le conflit russo-ukrainien fragilise la sécurité alimentaire d'un grand nombre de pays africains, la Russie et l'Ukraine étant deux acteurs majeurs du marché agricole mondial, particulièrement celui du blé. C'est pourquoi, l'approvisionnement en blé du continent est au premier rang concerné par ce conflit qui perdure, dont le premier enseignement concerne le risque de non approvisionnement, en blé russe et ukrainien, des pays qui en sont le plus dépendants. Cette étude montre qu'il ...
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    Guerre en Ukraine et sanctions contre la Russie : quel avenir pour le pétrole ?
    Authors
    Afaf Zarkik
    August 2, 2022
    L’invasion russe de l'Ukraine a incité l'Union Européenne, en coordination avec d’autres puissances mondiales, à monter en urgence une réponse coordonnée de sanctions sans précédent. La plus emblématique d'entre elles est l'embargo partiel contre le pétrole et autres produits raffinés russes, qui signifie en essence la transition du commerce pétrolier d’une logique économique vers une logique géopolitique. D'où la montée en flèche des cours du pétrole et d'autres matières premières. ...
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    Covid-19 et crise en Ukraine : quels impacts sur la marche de l’Afrique vers l’émergence économique et sociale durable ?
    Authors
    Moubarack Lo
    Amaye SY
    August 1, 2022
    Avant la pandémie Covid-19, le continent abritait les économies à la croissance la plus rapide du monde et plusieurs pays africains montraient les premiers signes de transformation structurelle et de progrès vers l’émergence économique. Plus de deux ans après la pandémie et les ondes de choc qui en ont résulté, deux questions cruciales se posent : dans quelle mesure le choc sanitaire Covid-19, exacerbé par la crise ukrainienne, a-t-il constitué un tournant dans le processus général ...
  • The greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century
    Authors
    Helmut Sorge
    July 22, 2022
    “February 24, 2022,” noted Robert Pszczel in « Nato Review”(July 7, 2022),”is likely to engrave itself on the history template of the contemporary world.”Pszczel, a Senior fellow  at the Polanski Foundation, Warsaw, and former Polish diplomat serving as director  of the NATO information office  in Moscow for half a decade, judged Russia’s unprovoked, unjustified invasion of Ukraine is  not only a “manifestation of a huge  security danger that has shattered peace in Europe”, but “has ...
  • L'Afrique face aux incertitudes
    Helmut Sorge, Rama Yade
    July 22, 2022
    L'ancienne secrétaire d'État chargée des Affaires étrangères et des Droits de l'homme, Rama Yade, met le point sur la position de l’Europe face aux difficultés de l’Afrique en temps d’inc ...
  • APSACO 6th edition : African Security in times of uncertainties - DAY2
    July 21, 2022
    2021 was a year of global geopolitical disruption and geo-economic upheaval. As events gather momentum, the world enters a period of geopolitical and geo-economic transition; the end of one historical cycle foreshadowing the uncertain prospects of a new one. We are henceforth, in presen...
  • المؤتمر السنوي للسلم والأمن بإفريقيا : الامن الافريقي في زمن الارتيابات ـ اليوم الثاني - APSACO
    July 21, 2022
    كانت سنة 2021 سنة اضطراب جيو-سياسي وانقلاب جيو-اقتصادي عالميين. ومع تزايد زخم الأحداث، دخل العالم فترة تحول جيو-سياسي وجيو-اقتصادي تعلن نهاية دورة تاريخية وتُنبِّؤ بآفاق غير مؤكدة لدورة جديدة. وعليه، فإننا من الآن فصاعداً أمام تغير عالمي حقيقي ينطوي على نقاط ضغط متعددة وقوىً دافعة جيو-س...
  • المؤتمر السنوي للسلم والأمن بإفريقيا : الامن الافريقي في زمن الارتيابات ـ اليوم الأول - APSACO
    July 20, 2022
    كانت سنة 2021 سنة اضطراب جيو-سياسي وانقلاب جيو-اقتصادي عالميين. ومع تزايد زخم الأحداث، دخل العالم فترة تحول جيو-سياسي وجيو-اقتصادي تعلن نهاية دورة تاريخية وتُنبِّؤ بآفاق غير مؤكدة لدورة جديدة. وعليه، فإننا من الآن فصاعداً أمام تغير عالمي حقيقي ينطوي على نقاط ضغط متعددة وقوىً دافعة جيو-س...
  • APSACO 6th edition : African Security in times of uncertainties - DAY1
    July 20, 2022
    2021 was a year of global geopolitical disruption and geo-economic upheaval. As events gather momentum, the world enters a period of geopolitical and geo-economic transition; the end of one historical cycle foreshadowing the uncertain prospects of a new one. We are henceforth, in presen...
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    Impactful Emerging Leaders of the Wider Atlantic
    Authors
    Sabine Cessou
    July 12, 2022
    The Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders Alumni (ADEL) Portraits are a series of journalistic insights that delve into the stories and backgrounds of impactful young leaders of the ADEL community, now 350 alumni strong. These portraits are more than a biography as they capture the motives, success stories, career shifts, and vision behind each emerging leader’s pursuit of positive impact. From Morocco to South Africa, Germany to Canada, Brazil and the United States, these young leade ...
  • The Threat of a Nuclear War
    Authors
    Helmut Sorge
    July 12, 2022
    October 22, 1962. One of those days in history to be forever part of destiny- warships of the Soviet Union confronting the US Navy off Cuba, an ally of Moscow, which convinced Fidel Castro to participate in a secret conspiracy: the stationing of strategic nuclear missiles on the island, located just 90 miles off the continental United States. Once discovered, US President John F. Kennedy ordered a naval quarantine on Moscow's ships. History would be repeated another time on a differ ...