Geostrategy is the sublimation of the will to power of the great powers. Therefore, does describing the geostrategy of the Arab world make sense, given its weakness and the instability that reign there? The Maghreb is trying to get out of its peripheral situation. The “Arab Spring” has disrupted the entire region. The Gulf Monarchies are trying to impose themselves in the Middle East against the Jewish state and Shiite Iran. The Islamic State challenges Arab nation-states following a metaphysics of bestiality whose horror is matched only by the ambiguity of Western foreign policies in the region…

In this work, Hamdi Nabli brings to light, on the occasion of high-level analyses, all the complexity of the geopolitical situation of a Middle East in turmoil which oscillates between power and decadence. It shows the paradoxes, the strategic stakes and the planned destabilizations...

About the author: Hamdi Nabli

Hamdi NABLI is a Franco-Tunisian consultant, teacher and writer, born in Paris in 1981. He graduated in Political Science from La Sorbonne, holds a Master 2 Research in Sociology and Political Institutions from the University of Paris I – Panthéon- Sorbonne. He worked as a parliamentary assistant in the Senate (as a political assistant to an elected member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and the Armed Forces) and wrote several political analysis articles on the evolution of the " Arab Spring” for the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (IRIS). He currently teaches at the University of Paris III – La Sorbonne Nouvelle, in charge of the course ''Civilization and economy of the Arab world''. He is also an external consultant, in charge of mission within the Monitoring and Prospective Unit of the Development Department of the Collège des Bernardins, a Catholic cultural establishment organizing debates on ideas around the future of man. As an essayist, his work focuses on the history of ideas, the changes in modern Western democracies and the evolution of international relations.

He has already published: Foucault and Baudrillard. The End of Power (Paris, Éditions L'Harmattan, Philosophical Opening Collection, 2015), Political Inequality in Democracy (Paris, Jean-Jaurès Foundation, 2013), La Fraternité Aryan. The spirit of terrorism at the heart of white America (Paris, Knowledge and Knowledge Editions, Human and Social Sciences Collection, 2012).