Transatlantic Relations and dynamics between North and South in a Changing World

January 19, 2024

2024 will be the most important electoral year on record. While elections will be held in major countries of the South (including India, Indonesia, and South Africa, among others) and in Russia, the North Atlantic will also be home to noticeable contests. The U.S. and the EU have witnessed a surge in right-wing populism. How both powerhouses will fare in front of that challenge to liberal democracy as it was traditionally understood, and how it will shape their foreign policy and engagement with the rest of the world, are the topics of this conversation with Strahinja Matejic, Associate Director in the Office of the President at the Eurasia Group, and member of the ADEL 2022 cohort.

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    November 10, 2025
    Almost a year after President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the United States displays little of the isolationism many of the country’s international partners anticipated, and many of Trump’s supporters desired. From economic sanctions to military intervention, Trump is proving to be something of a foreign policy president, although with distinctly unilateral instincts. This approach is particularly evident in Washington’s current approach to the ‘South’, including Latin ...
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    November 7, 2025
    "From now on, there will be a before and after October 31, 2025". These were the strong words spoken by His Majesty the King to his people a few minutes after the adoption by the United Nations Security Council of resolution 2797, which clearly calls on the parties to the Sahara dispute to take part in discussions without preconditions and on the exclusive basis of the autonomy plan proposed by Morocco.This strategic Momentum should be a source of deep satisfaction for national dipl ...
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    November 7, 2025
    « Désormais, il y aura un avant et un après 31 octobre 2025 ». C’est en ses termes forts que c’est adressé Sa Majesté le Roi à son peuple quelques minutes après l’adoption par le Conseil de sécurité des Nations-Unies de la résolution 2797 qui demande clairement aux parties au différend sur le Sahara de participer aux discussions sans conditions préalables et sur la base exclusive du plan d’autonomie proposé par le Maroc. Ce Momentum stratégique devrait constituer une raison pro ...
  • November 05, 2025
    Cet épisode revient sur la trajectoire politique et économique de l’Algérie depuis le mouvement du Hirak en 2019. Il analyse la consolidation du pouvoir militaire, les limites de la trans ...
  • November 4, 2025
    This Opinon was originally published in French on telos-eu.com As Morocco celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Green March, which gave it control of the Western Sahara in November 1975, the UN Security Council has made a spectacular correction to its position on the issue. Its resolution of October 31, 2025 emphasizes the solution of internal autonomy for the Western Sahara within Morocco, relegating the idea of an independence referendum to second place. Autonomy rather ...
  • November 3, 2025
    La résolution 2797, adoptée le 31 octobre 2025 par une large majorité du Conseil de sécurité, constitue un tournant historique dans le dossier du Sahara. Pour la première fois, l’autonomie sous souveraineté marocaine est considérée comme unique base de négociation pour une solution politique réaliste marquée du sceau du compromis , écartant irrévocablement l’option de référendum et mettant fin aux ambiguïtés entretenues depuis des décennies. En réaction à l’adoption de la résol ...
  • November 3, 2025
    Resolution 2797, adopted on October 31, 2025 by a large majority of the Security Council, represents a historic turning point in the Sahara issue. For the first time, autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty is seen as the sole basis for negotiating a realistic political solution marked by the seal of compromise, irrevocably ruling out the referendum option and putting an end to the ambiguities that have dogged the issue for decades.Reacting to the adoption of the resolution, His Majesty ...
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    avec le concours de Sâ Benjamin Traoré
    October 31, 2025
    Ce rapport a été initialement publié sur fondapol.org Depuis 50 ans, le conflit du Sahara occidental est pendant devant les instances internationales.En 1975, le Maroc a fait acte de souveraineté sur ce vaste territoire désertique, jusque-là colonie espagnole. Il estime qu’il lui avait antérieurement appartenu. Ce point de vue est contesté par le Front Polisario, mouvement indépendantiste soutenu par l’Algérie. La communauté internationale a adopté une attitude ambivalente, ret ...