In an article published in the Journal du Dimanche (France) entitled « No, the war is not France », Dominique de Villepin, former French Prime Minister, asks: "How the neoconservative virus could he win and all minds ? "| Interview with Jean-Sylvestre MONGRENIER, Research Fellow at the Thomas More Institute | Atlantico, January 17, 2013 | Available in French

François Hollande a justifié l’intervention de la France au Mali au nom de la lutte contre le terrorisme. L’intervention est approuvée par 75% des Français. En 2011, Nicolas Sarkozy avait été le premier à vouloir s’engager en Libye. Le contraste avec le discours de Dominique de Villepin contre la guerre en Irak à l’ONU le 14 février 2004 semble (...)

Interview of Antonin TISSERON, Reaserch Fellow at the Thomas More Institute, spécialist of defense et scurity issues in the Maghreb/Sahel zone | Le Soir (Marocco), January 14th, 2013 | Avaible in French

Les affrontements se multiplient ces derniers jours entre l’armée malienne et les groupes islamistes, qui cherchent à avancer vers le sud. Quelles sont les réelles ambitions de ces groupes, qui contrôlent déjà une grande partie du pays ?

Le déploiement de forces par les groupes islamistes sur la zone de front pouvait donner l’impression d’une volonté de peser sur les négociations menées avec les interlocuteurs maliens et internationaux en se plaçant en position de force. Cependant, avec les combats de ces (...)

The Security Council of the UN has adopted resolution 2085 authorizing the deployment of an African force in Mali. The idea is to entrust the care of ECOWAS secure zone under UN mandate, working in parallel as part of the EU to the reconstruction of a Malian state. In fact, the historical range of the Tuareg population exceeds northern Mali and beyond the territory of neighboring States, including the Algerian Sahara. If the principle of sending an ECOWAS force in northern Mali is acquired after the UN resolution that has been passed by the Security Council, timely lengthen. While it was originally planned to move quickly and deploy in spring 2013, it is now more a question of the second half of 2013 | Interview with Jean-Sylvestre (...)

The “Arab spring » and the so referred wave of seditions, revolutions and conflicts are not just epiphenomenal but the first interpretation through the End of History as a paradigm was an illusion. However, talking about an “Islamist winter” would not be enough. The political Islam is not a monolithic block, the regional rivalries are most important and go beyond the polarity between Shiites and Sunnis. Thus, the western diplomacies have to manoeuver into that complex and split area | By Jean-Sylvestre MONGRENIER, Research Fellow at the Thomas More Institute | Available in French 

Texte, relu et augmenté, de l’intervention prononcée lors du Forum sur la sécurité européenne organisé par le CIDAN (Civisme Défense (...)

Several sources have recently reported presence of Boko Haram fighters in the northen Mali. These relationships are not new. But while Mali is on an Aghanisation way, these connections are particularly dangerous for the sub region. Come back on this Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb’s Nigerian brother | By Antonin TISSERON, Research Fellow at the Thomas More Institute, published in Le Magazine de l'Afrique, N°29, November-December 2012 | Available in French

Boko Haram, dont le nom signifie en haoussa « l’éducation occidentale est un péché », fait partie des groupes considérés comme les plus dangereux en Afrique de l’Ouest. Entre mi 2009 et juin 2012, plus d’un millier de personnes seraient mortes du fait de ses actions. (...)