Ce recueil est le fruit de trois années d’activités de l’Observatoire Boutros-Ghali du maintien de la paix. Lancé en 2017 par la France, l’Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, le Canada et la Belgique – et...

This report aims to present the major features of Saudi Arabia’s defence and security apparatus. One of the main findings of this study is that, especially since Prince Mohammed bin Salman became head of the Ministry of Defence in 2015, the kingdom is no longer content to be...

Mexico is in the grip of a major security crisis. Over the past decade, it has resulted in an exponential increase in insecurity and homicides linked to organized crime. The pivotal position of the country between the United States and Central and South America is one of the determining...

This quarterly monitoring, published by GRIP since 2011, aims to monitor the security situation in West Africa with a focus on Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Senegal. It examines in particular broad internal security issues,...

Since the end of the 2000s, the Indonesian government has designed and implemented an ambitious arms modernization strategy, which seeks to develop its defence industry. A decade after the announcement of this project, it is time to assess the country’s progress in...

Considering its significant investment in defence, Saudi Arabia’s attempts to create a national arms industry capable of supplying equipment to the Saudi military have historically produced limited results. To change this, Riyadh designed in 2017 a public strategy named “Vision 2030” for...

En 2017, les États membres de l’Union européenne (UE) ont mis en place de nouvelles politiques pour renforcer leurs engagements dans le domaine de la sécurité et de la défense. Parmi les plus importantes figure la Coopération structurée permanente (ou en anglais Permanent...

The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) requires that the risk of transferred weapons being used to commit gender-based violence be taken into account in the granting or denial of exports licences. However, this risk is not stated as such in the criteria of the European Common Position,...

In 2016, after four years of negotiations in Havana, the government of Juan Manuel Santos and FARC reached a peace agreement with six key objectives. However, barely three years later, a series of events have called into question the scope and legitimacy of the Agreement. On...

En vertu du Décret de 2012[1], les autorités wallonnes doivent présenter annuellement un rapport relatif aux transferts d’armes à la Sous-...

On 13 July 2019, on the eve of the military parade on France's National Day, President Emmanuel Macron announced new prospects for the country's...
The European Union’s (EU) strategy to tackle arms trafficking and firearm-related crime took a new turn in 2017. EU Member States agreed to overhaul...
Depuis le début de l’instabilité au Sahel et l’intensification de la violence, les opérations militaires nationales, sous-régionales et...
This Analysis addresses one of the sensitive issues of the European Defence Fund (EDFEF): that of third countries. In what terms can the latter be...
During Nepal's civil war (1996-2006), Maoist groups massively recruited children into their ranks in order to fight against government forces. After...
Het is onmogelijk om het aantal vuurwapens dat in de wereld circuleert te bepalen, maar één ding is zeker: er zijn er nog nooit zo veel geweest!...
Diversion is at the core of the proliferation of illicit weapons. It is the main form of arms and ammunition supply for non-state armed groups...
Bien qu’épargnée par les menaces terroristes qui submergent la région sahélienne, la Guinée Conakry fait face depuis plusieurs mois à une crise...
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