By Jean-Sylvestre MONGRENIER, research Fellow at the Thomas More Institute | Available in French

The Euro-Atlantic Community is a group of nations gathered within the European Union and NATO. This Western ensemble forms a “Great Space” with land, maritime and airspace dimensions.  The Euro-Atlantic Community and its State members are involved in a strategy of enlargement Eastwards and look for a path to a Russian partnership without any soft attitude. At the crossroads of Europe, Eurasia and the Middle East, Turkey is a very much important ally and the relationship with it must be renewed. Upon their southern “limes” and beyond, in the Mediterranean Basin and Middle-East, the Western powers must reinforce their presence (...)

Second report of the Thomas More Institute on sustainable security in the Maghreb | 28 pages

One year after the beginning of "Arab Spring", the situation in Libya is far from stable and the southern banks of the Mediterranean remain unsettled and fragile. As neighbours and the primary economic partners of the Maghreb countries, the European Union and Europeans need to review their strategy in the light of the new local parameters. New circumstances require a new response. A global approach is therefore needed to take into account the four challenges which are currently facing the countries and people of the Maghreb. 

The challenge of democratisation. Although the recent revolutions have drawn our attention to the hopes for (...)

On Monday, January 23, 2012, the law about the penalization of genocides was proposed to the French senators’ vote in a tumultuous ambiance. The polemic is about the Armenian genocide whose reality as genocide is denied by the Turkish state. Thus, the French-Turkish relationship is most damaged but it will be necessary to get out of this stalemate. Indeed, the importance of Turkey as a geopolitical actor must not be undervalued. By Jean-Sylvestre MONGRENIER, Research Fellow at the Thomas More Institute, Fellow at the Institut Français de Géopolitique (Paris VIII Saint-Denis University). Available in French. 

Dans son anthropologie philosophique des relations internationales, Thérèse Delpech, très récemment disparue, (...)

The change of the American military strategy which was announced by Barack Obama on January, the 5th, and the next withdrawal of two combat brigades from the “Old Europe” confirm the growing part of the Asia-Pacific area in the United States geopolitics. Thus, the political and military relationship between Paris and London is much more important. By Jean-Sylvestre MONGRENIER, Research Fellow at the Thomas More Institute, Fellow at the Institut Français de Géopolitique (Paris VIII Saint-Denis University). Available in French.

Le 5 janvier 2012, Barack Obama était au Pentagone pour présenter les lignes de force d’une nouvelle doctrine militaire caractérisée par le souci de réaliser des économies budgétaires (487 (...)