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 [...]
What we did not understand in Syria
Original article from Le Figaro written by Charles Jaigu CHRONICLE – Geographer Fabrice Balanche offers a powerful analysis of the Syrian war. This excellent teacher of a confusing reality dismantles once and for all the faults [...]
From Kirkuk to Deir ez-Zor: Threatened Kurdish Autonomies
Can the riots in Kirkuk be compared to the insurrection in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, where Arab tribes from the Euphrates Valley took up arms to oust the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces? An analysis by Fabrice [...]
Syrian mercenaries against Karabakh
Syrian mercenaries against Karabakh Article published in Haut-Karabakh: le livre noir, edited by Eric Denécée and Tigrane Yégavian. Ellipses, French Center for Intelligence Research, Paris, 2022 During its offensive against Karabakh, Azerbaijan used Syrian mercenaries. [...]
World Bank: “Building for peace in North Africa and the Middle East” 2018-2020
In 2018, the World Bank in cooperation with GIZ (German cooperation) launched an applied research program on reconstruction in countries affected by conflict in North Africa and the Middle East (Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya). [...]
Iraq and Syria: Kurdish Autonomous Regions Under Threat
Published on March 4, 2023 in Groupe d'Etudes Géopolitiques In November of 2022, Turkey bombed Kurdish forces in Syria and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) in Northern Iraq in retaliation for the attack in Istanbul [...]
Sectarianism in Syria’s Civil War
This study, illustrated with 70 original maps and graphics, fosters a deeper understanding of the role sectarianism has played in Syria's war and reassesses the notion that the regime's divisive efforts singlehandedly transformed the secular [...]
Syria Lebanon: Sectarianism and Power
Syria and Lebanon are now two states under foreign influence, fragmented by ethnic, religious and tribal antagonisms that seem irreducible. Beyond international geopolitics and the Arab-Israeli conflict, the causes of their respective failures are also [...]