by Saban Yuksel | Aug 25, 2020 | Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Research
Introduction EUFOR RCA was the EU’s military operation in the Central African Republic[1], launched on 1 April 2014. The EU started to search for partners from the very beginning and cooperated with the United Nations (UN), African Union (AU) and the selected third...
by Ibrahim Jouhari | Aug 17, 2020 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
After seven long months, during which the Lebanese went through a popular uprising, a COVID 19 pandemic, a worsening economic and financial crisis, currency devaluation, and a large explosion that destroyed parts of Beirut, the government of Hassan Diab has resigned....
by Ibrahim Jouhari | Aug 12, 2020 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Lebanese ministers and MPs have been resigning in drove following the tragic explosion in the port of Beirut, and the subsequent popular anger against the whole political class. On Saturday a huge demonstration took place, and the following day popular movement...
by Ibrahim Jouhari | Jul 29, 2020 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
The current multifaceted crisis engulfing Lebanon has started a very dangerous political and economic shift that could have a disastrous effect on Lebanon’s Liberal economic model in the long run. Indeed, the liberal model, focusing on personal freedoms,...
by Erman Atak* | May 29, 2020 | Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Peace & Conflict Management, Research
By Erman Atak* and Stefano Marcuzzi** Despite the growing number of Covid-19 victims in Libya in mid-May,[1] the civil war in the country is reaching new highs. The capital Tripoli has been under siege from the leader of eastern Libya-based self-styled Libyan...
by Amb.Nureddin Mazen* | May 28, 2020 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Peace & Conflict Management
Slightly more than a year passed over start of retired General Khalifa Haftar’s attack on the Libyan capital, Tripoli. It was on April 4, 2019 exactly, a time when Libyans were awaiting the holding of the Libyan Forum on April 14, 2019 in the city of Ghadames as a...
