The year 2024 is going into history as a period of restructuring and potentially destroying global order. After decades of living in a unipolar world led by the USA, current geopolitics and geo-economics are decided by a wide range of emerging global powers, all trying to take a bite of the Pax … [Read more...]
Saudi Arabia vs. Iran: Religion, Identity, Legitimacy in a Geo-Political Confrontation
Saudi Arabia-Iran confrontation, while stressing a clear interest in maintaining and expanding territorial control over the huge oil resources, must at least consider the following other factors affecting their behavior: a) a different religious creed (Sunni and Shiite), although within the Muslim … [Read more...]
Fatah et Hamas: les nouveaux équilibres
Le 15 mars 2011 n’a pas été une «journée de la colère», comme cela fut le cas dans d’autres pays de la région durant les mois du Second réveil arabe. La journée de manifestations à laquelle il avait été appelé ici aussi par tam-tam Internet avait pour les Palestiniens un autre calibre: unité, fin … [Read more...]
Israel sau conflictul permanent
Nicolae GEANTĂ Israel, o fâşie mică de pământ, se află în linia întâi a unuia dintre neîncheiatele conflictele ale secolului. Pe câţiva metri pătraţi se poartă conflictul simbolic şi totuşi foarte concret dintre Orient şi Occident, dintre premodern şi modern, dintre fundamentalism şi libertinism, … [Read more...]