ABSTRACT 

Armed forces and society in the arab world: between revolt and conservatism

Jean-François Daguzan...................7

The lebanese armed forces
Symbol of national unity and subject of communitarian tensions

Didier Leroy.................................31

Ethno-sociological politics of the saudi armed forces

David Rigoulet-Roze.....................45

The pâsdârân-artesh model: internal concerns and external challenges in the framework of the arab spring

Moises Garduño Garcia.................71

The UNIFIL in the south-lebanon post-2006 rebuilding.
Questioning the civil-military co-operation

Julie Chapuis................................85

Economic relations between china and maghreb countries

Thierry Pairault...........................99

The libyan revolution seen from beijing

François Lafargue......................115

France and algeria at the post-colonial hour: between decolonization and De-nationalization?

Séverine Labat............................127


Unchangeable and changing: the geopolitics of Libya in the post-Gaddafi era

Mohamed Faraj Ben Lamma.........147