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Trump Bets History on Iran

Trump Bets History on Iran

Trump’s ‘war leader’: coherence or rupture? What happened in a few weeks On January 28, Trump announced that «a huge armada is heading towards...

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Gilles Touboul

Tel Aviv as a Diplomatic Signal

Tel Aviv as a Diplomatic Signal

A state visit ‘with several drawers’ is not a simple protocol sequence. It is a powerful tool: a movement that is intended to be used as a message...

24.02.2026 50

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A Framework for Analyzing Donald Trump’s Diplomacy

A Framework for Analyzing Donald Trump’s Diplomacy

Since the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term, a fact is obvious: US foreign policy seems to be active on almost all fronts. Iran, the Middle...

19.02.2026 60

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Coercion and Patience: Iran, a Race Against Time

02.02.2026 30

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Gilles Touboul

Useful allies, unnecessary risk

30.01.2026 40

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Gilles Touboul

Washington threatens Tehran, the world listens

14.01.2026 30

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Gilles Touboul

When Democracies Look Away

13.01.2026 40

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Gilles Touboul

D.Trump and the illusion of non-interventionism

27.12.2025 90

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Gilles Touboul

The strategic recomposition of the Mediterranean

24.12.2025 50

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Gilles Touboul

Israel-Egypt: When gas is stronger than diplomacy

19.12.2025 50

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Gilles Touboul

Sydney: The costly blindness

15.12.2025 60

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Gilles Touboul

A discreet diplomacy towards a strategic shift

11.12.2025 40

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Gilles Touboul

Saudi Arabia: A New Regional Balance

22.11.2025 70

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Gilles Touboul

AI: The new engine of global hierarchies

18.11.2025 30

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Gilles Touboul

Israel: Heart of Asian geopolitical realignments

15.11.2025 20

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Gilles Touboul

When strategic realism prevails over ideology

11.11.2025 20

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Gilles Touboul

‘Trump-Xi: The diplomacy of the pause’

31.10.2025 20

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Gilles Touboul

Prabowo in Israel? Risky bet of a useful opening

14.10.2025 30

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Gilles Touboul

D.Trump and the Nobel: Peace without Virtue

09.10.2025 30

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Gilles Touboul

When Europe replays the 1930s

28.09.2025 20

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Gilles Touboul

Indonesia: A New Language in the Middle East

25.09.2025 20

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Gilles Touboul

Le President Macron: Between silence and fractures

20.09.2025 30

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Gilles Touboul

Double standards: diplomacy and its contradictions

13.09.2025 20

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Gilles Touboul

Japan’s Next Prime Minister: Between Continuity and Transformation

11.09.2025 50

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Gilles Touboul

Beijing’s Warning: ‘Peace or War’

05.09.2025 30

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Gilles Touboul