Can Israel preserve the Druze Mountains?
On July 16, 2025, the Syrian army left the city of Sweida, as well as every other piece of land it controlled within that region, having held them for just two days. This was due [...]
Fabrice Balanche : « In the immediate future, Iran’s choices are constrained following the Israeli airstrikes. »
Published in French, Le Figaro, 13 June, 2025 by Amaury Coutansais-Pervinquière INTERVIEW - "Israel will follow the same strategy in Iran what it did in Lebanon against Hezbollah by striking regime officials and its infrastructure," [...]
Trump’s Middle East Vision: Stability, Strategic Alliances, and Regional Power Dynamics
DeFacto, November 13, 2024 On the global stage, Donald Trump’s key objective remains ensuring the United States retains its status as the preeminent world power in the 21st century. At the core of this vision [...]
The reconstruction of Lebanon or the racketeering rule
Fabrice Balanche, in Lebanon after the Cedar Revolution, Are Knudsen and Michael Kerr, 2012, London, Hurst, 323 p. The socio-economic dimensions of the Lebanese conflict have often been overlooked in favour of political and geopolitical readings [...]
Fabrice Balanche, winner of the 11th edition of the Geopolitics Book Prize
On June 26, 2024, I had the honor of receiving the geopolitical book prize for my latest work: Lessons from the Syrian crisis. Jean-Louis Bourlanges, the President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National [...]
The destruction of Israel is Iran’s ultimate goal
After the destruction of its consulate in Damascus, on April 1, Iran will retaliate against Israel. What will be the nature of Iranian retaliation? Iran does not want a direct confrontation against the Hebrew state [...]
Syria: lessons from the war – Analysis by Fabrice Balanche
Fabrice Balanche, author of “The lessons from the Syrian crisis” (Odile Jacob), was the guest of Vincent Roux in “Points de Vue” on Figaro Live, Monday April 1, 2024. Follow this twenty-minute video interview here [...]
Fabrice Balanche Winner of the Conflits Award 2024
I am very proud to be honored with the Conflits Award 2024 for my last book: Lessons from the Syrian crisis, published by Odile Jacob, in March 2024. Conflits is in line with the French [...]
How the West began losing the Mideast to Iran, Russia & China since start of Syria conflict, French academic Fabrice Balanche explains
This month marks the 13th anniversary of the start of the Syrian conflict. French academic Fabrice Balanche says that across the Middle East the West is steadily losing ground to Russia, China and Iran as [...]
After 13 years of conflict, Syria is a failed state
March 14, 2024, Fabrice Balanche for North Press Agency Fabrice Balanche is lecturer at Lyon University, adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute. He published : "Les leçons de la crise syrienne" (In French), Paris, Odile Jacob, [...]