Month: March 2014

According to asurvey conductedin 2012 by the ArabBarometer, 84.5% of Algeriansare not interestedin politics and 52% donot have faith in the political system.  Such lack of confidencemight suggestthat Algeria isready...

The upsurge of China’s economic supremacy is being monitored carefully in many parts of the worldlargely because the impact of this new ‘economic power house’ would have significant implications for...

Central Africa, as a geopolitical complex and security complex, is plagued since independences to the dynamics of insecurity and border smuggling, structured around the mechanic of networks and the entrepreneurship...

After pressure on the Provisional Government of Mali and the United Nations for a military intervention, France has a started a military operation called Operation Serval in the north of...

Turkey’s position bridging Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and its growing economic and political power, make it an increasingly important regional and international actor in terms of security, leadership...

France has “special” economic and political relations with Francophone African countries, dating back to the 19th century, and retains its military bases in Gabon, Senegal, the Ivory Coast, Djibouti, and the...

Turkey provides assistance for relief aid and reconstruction, but also works as a business partner and invests in youth education. BY PROFESSOR ALPASLAN OZERDEM | APRIL 13, 2013 Turkey has...

BY PROFESSOR STEFAN WOLFF | AUGUST 18, 2012   On 2 August 2012, a deadline set by the African Union and endorsed by the Un Security Council for Sudan and...

The mediation in the 2007-2008 post-election violence in Kenya is recognized as a successful application of the responsibility to protect (R2P) through mediation. This paper investigates how and why it was...

Ali Abdullah Saleh’s autocratic rule in Yemen comes to an end on 21 February 2012 after 33 years as a new interim president is elected in the country which remains deeply fragile...

On Monday 21st January a deadline that it now appears was not only arbitrary but also purely notional elapsed. This was the deadline for the current Libyan government to tell...

Written by T. J. COLES In 2006, Britain and America began a proxy war in Somalia by training Ethiopian warlords to invade the country in order to destroy the government,...

Written by PROF. STEFAN WOLFF When Mohamed Bouazizi, a jobless graduate in the provincial city of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia, about 200km southwest of the capital Tunis, set himself on fire...

Written by PROF. STEFAN WOLFF Friday, 28 October 2011 19:06 With Colonel Gadhafi dead and the last major strongholds of his supporters now under the control of the new government,...

Written by PROF. BÜLENT GÖKAY Friday, 28 October 2011 18:36 The killing of Muammar Kaddafi on 20 October 2011 by an armed lynch mob and the victory of the rebel...