Jean‐Loup Samaan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5897605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean‐Loup Samaan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean‐Loup |
| FAMILY NAME | Samaan |
| SIGNATURE | SAMAAN J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0283-2874 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Rise and Fall of the G5 Sahel
This article examines the rise and fall of the G5 Sahel, a regional security organization created in 2014 by Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, with strong support from external partners. While the G5 Sahel quickly became a pillar of counterterrorism efforts in the region, it collapsed less than a decade later following the withdrawal of several member states after successive military coups. The article argues that the G5 Sahel funct…
Israël
Normalisation des relations avec les voisins arabes ; dissuasion de toute agression ; messianisme impliquant l’extension territoriale : les trois notions rythment et organisent depuis des décennies les stratégies d’Israël. En dépit des progrès sur les chemins de la normalisation qui semblaient promis par les accords d’Abraham, le messianisme paraît, avec le poids de l’extrême droite dans le gouvernement Netanyahou, devoir peser lourd dans la reco…
Small state strategies towards military self-reliance
10.1080/14799855.2025.2549976
Le Golfe entre Pékin et Washington
Jusqu’à la fin des années 2010, alors que la compétition sino-américaine était encore contenue, les monarchies du Golfe dépendaient largement des États-Unis pour leur sécurité et de la Chine pour leur prospérité. Cette posture tend à évoluer, à des degrés divers selon les pays, vers une forme de balancier entre les deux super-puissances. L’Arabie saoudite et les Émirats arabes unis se distinguent par leur rapprochement avec Pékin, y compris dans …
The Gulf States’ Decade
The books by Dina Esfandiary, Cinzia Bianco, and Tobias Borck delve into the shift in Gulf politics over the past decade. This change saw in particular Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar playing a more prominent role in regional affairs, which was influenced by the Arab Spring uprisings and Gulf states’ concerns over American commitments to regional security. The books also highlight the diverging foreign policies of Gulf states, challenging the no…
Gulf states and the Indo-Pacific
Indigenous Military Reforms from the Outside
10.1080/14702436.2023.2246392
Decisive Victory’ and Israel's Quest For a New Military Strategy
In 2020, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the development of a new operational concept called Decisive Victory that aimed to change the way Israel fights wars and to redefine victory on the battlefield. The root cause of this change was the evolution in nonstate threats from armed groups in Gaza and Lebanon. The concept was to drive major reforms of the IDF in training, interoperability among the services, weapons procurement, and civil‐…
The Long Goodbye
Avec le retrait des troupes états-uniennes d’Afghanistan et la réduction de celles en Irak, la présidence Biden entend, enfin, acter le « pivot » des États-Unis du Moyen-Orient vers l’Asie. Déjà annoncée il y a une décennie, cette inflexion doit faire de la compétition avec la Chine l’axe central de la politique étrangère de Washington. Ce basculement a des implications majeures pour les équilibres stratégiques au Moyen-Orient, qu’il s’agisse de …
Reinventing the Sheikhdom
On May 14, 2022, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (commonly known as MbZ) officially became the third president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) following the death of his half-brother Khalifa. In effect, the announcement acknowledged a reality of Abu Dhabi politics obvious for the past decade; MbZ was already the de facto ruler of the country.MbZ and his inner circle’s steady conquest of power within the UAE has been the topic of many journalistic …
Digital routes and borders in the Middle East
In the second half of the 2010s, the Arabian Peninsula experienced major foreign policy changes that suggested a reshuffling of the region as a security complex. This paper offers an analysis of the geography of Internet data routing in the Middle East in order to assess whether foreign policy shifts apply to cyberspace and the potential for meaningful cybersecurity cooperation. We specifically focus on the Qatar blockade and the Abraham agreemen…
Les armées du Golfe, entre dépendances et autonomie
The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Elusiveness of Defense Cooperation
The 2017–21 blockade of Qatar has frequently been depicted as the largest obstacle to further cooperation within the Gulf Cooperation Council. However, this narrative overestimates the impact of the dispute and underestimates the historical limitations of the GCC and its multilateral projects prior to the crisis. GCC initiatives rarely produced tangible results, even before 2017, because their primary function was at the rhetorical level for Gulf…
Countering Jihadist Terrorism
As France and Germany have become major targets of jihadist terrorism, the calls for stronger cooperation in counterterrorism at the European level have grown in earnest. However, a comparative analysis of the national experiences from both countries evidences significant differences in terms of political culture, institutional division of labor, and legal oversight. Counterterrorism practices can be described following a typology of three broad …
Comparative Strategy in Professional Military Education
Israel-Hezbollah conflict and the evolution of the Gulf security system
Israel’s Foreign Policy Beyond the Arab World
For over 60 years, Israel's foreign policy establishment has looked at its regional policy through the lens of a geopolitical concept named "the periphery doctrine." The idea posited that due to the fundamental hostility of neighboring Arab countries, Israel ought to counterbalance this threat by engaging with the "periphery" of the Arab world through clandestine diplomacy. Based on original research in the Israeli diplomatic archives and intervi…
Missile warfare and violent non-state actors
Over the last three decades, Hezbollah adapted its military strategy and the operational function conferred to its missiles. Starting in 1992, rocket warfare became one of the primary tactics of the group to compel Israeli Forces in Lebanon. After the Israeli withdrawal in 2000, the strategy evolved into a deterrence posture to support the Party’s objective to remain the primary military power inside Lebanon. Hezbollah’s posture could serve as a …
The Ties that Do Not Bind
This article evaluates the current relations between Gulf monarchies and South Asian States (India, Pakistan) as well as China. Economic ties between the Arabian Peninsula and these Asian countries grew in earnest in recent years leading to the making of a popular narrative which states that this rapprochement is a consequence of the international redistribution of power from the West to the East. The narrative argues that in coming years the dec…
The Dahya Concept and Israeli Military Posture vis-à-vis Hezbollah Since 2006
Since 2008, the Dahya concept has been portrayed by journalists, independent experts, and scholars as an official policy of Israel to address the threat of Hezbollah in Lebanon. However, there has been no official Israeli document formulating a Dahya strategy. Although this Dahya concept is not officially endorsed by the Israeli Defense Forces, it is a key reflection of the state of the Israeli military vis-à-vis Hezbollah debate since the 2006 w…
Revisiting Nuclear Opacity in the Middle East
Le secrétaire à la Défense et la relation civilo-militaire américaine
n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base d…
Jordan's New Geopolitics
Rapprochement with Hamas and the Gulf states could counter-balance Amman's dependence on the West. The effectiveness of this strategy will depend on the regime's ability to mitigate internal unrest
Security governance in the maritime commons
French Nuclear Weapons, Euro-Deterrence, and Nato
Countering Jihadist Terrorism
As France and Germany have become major targets of jihadist terrorism, the calls for stronger cooperation in counterterrorism at the European level have grown in earnest. However, a comparative analysis of the national experiences from both countries evidences significant differences in terms of political culture, institutional division of labor, and legal oversight. Counterterrorism practices can be described following a typology of three broad …
The Dahya Concept and Israeli Military Posture vis-à-vis Hezbollah Since 2006
Since 2008, the Dahya concept has been portrayed by journalists, independent experts, and scholars as an official policy of Israel to address the threat of Hezbollah in Lebanon. However, there has been no official Israeli document formulating a Dahya strategy. Although this Dahya concept is not officially endorsed by the Israeli Defense Forces, it is a key reflection of the state of the Israeli military vis-à-vis Hezbollah debate since the 2006 w…
Gulf states and the Indo-Pacific
Digital routes and borders in the Middle East
In the second half of the 2010s, the Arabian Peninsula experienced major foreign policy changes that suggested a reshuffling of the region as a security complex. This paper offers an analysis of the geography of Internet data routing in the Middle East in order to assess whether foreign policy shifts apply to cyberspace and the potential for meaningful cybersecurity cooperation. We specifically focus on the Qatar blockade and the Abraham agreemen…
The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Elusiveness of Defense Cooperation
The 2017–21 blockade of Qatar has frequently been depicted as the largest obstacle to further cooperation within the Gulf Cooperation Council. However, this narrative overestimates the impact of the dispute and underestimates the historical limitations of the GCC and its multilateral projects prior to the crisis. GCC initiatives rarely produced tangible results, even before 2017, because their primary function was at the rhetorical level for Gulf…
Missile warfare and violent non-state actors
Over the last three decades, Hezbollah adapted its military strategy and the operational function conferred to its missiles. Starting in 1992, rocket warfare became one of the primary tactics of the group to compel Israeli Forces in Lebanon. After the Israeli withdrawal in 2000, the strategy evolved into a deterrence posture to support the Party’s objective to remain the primary military power inside Lebanon. Hezbollah’s posture could serve as a …
Jordan's New Geopolitics
Rapprochement with Hamas and the Gulf states could counter-balance Amman's dependence on the West. The effectiveness of this strategy will depend on the regime's ability to mitigate internal unrest
Security governance in the maritime commons
French Nuclear Weapons, Euro-Deterrence, and Nato
Security governance in the maritime commons
Le secrétaire à la Défense et la relation civilo-militaire américaine
n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base d…
Jordan's New Geopolitics
Rapprochement with Hamas and the Gulf states could counter-balance Amman's dependence on the West. The effectiveness of this strategy will depend on the regime's ability to mitigate internal unrest
The Dahya Concept and Israeli Military Posture vis-à-vis Hezbollah Since 2006
Since 2008, the Dahya concept has been portrayed by journalists, independent experts, and scholars as an official policy of Israel to address the threat of Hezbollah in Lebanon. However, there has been no official Israeli document formulating a Dahya strategy. Although this Dahya concept is not officially endorsed by the Israeli Defense Forces, it is a key reflection of the state of the Israeli military vis-à-vis Hezbollah debate since the 2006 w…
Revisiting Nuclear Opacity in the Middle East
The Ties that Do Not Bind
This article evaluates the current relations between Gulf monarchies and South Asian States (India, Pakistan) as well as China. Economic ties between the Arabian Peninsula and these Asian countries grew in earnest in recent years leading to the making of a popular narrative which states that this rapprochement is a consequence of the international redistribution of power from the West to the East. The narrative argues that in coming years the dec…
Israel’s Foreign Policy Beyond the Arab World
For over 60 years, Israel's foreign policy establishment has looked at its regional policy through the lens of a geopolitical concept named "the periphery doctrine." The idea posited that due to the fundamental hostility of neighboring Arab countries, Israel ought to counterbalance this threat by engaging with the "periphery" of the Arab world through clandestine diplomacy. Based on original research in the Israeli diplomatic archives and intervi…
Missile warfare and violent non-state actors
Over the last three decades, Hezbollah adapted its military strategy and the operational function conferred to its missiles. Starting in 1992, rocket warfare became one of the primary tactics of the group to compel Israeli Forces in Lebanon. After the Israeli withdrawal in 2000, the strategy evolved into a deterrence posture to support the Party’s objective to remain the primary military power inside Lebanon. Hezbollah’s posture could serve as a …
Comparative Strategy in Professional Military Education
Israel-Hezbollah conflict and the evolution of the Gulf security system
Countering Jihadist Terrorism
As France and Germany have become major targets of jihadist terrorism, the calls for stronger cooperation in counterterrorism at the European level have grown in earnest. However, a comparative analysis of the national experiences from both countries evidences significant differences in terms of political culture, institutional division of labor, and legal oversight. Counterterrorism practices can be described following a typology of three broad …
The Long Goodbye
Avec le retrait des troupes états-uniennes d’Afghanistan et la réduction de celles en Irak, la présidence Biden entend, enfin, acter le « pivot » des États-Unis du Moyen-Orient vers l’Asie. Déjà annoncée il y a une décennie, cette inflexion doit faire de la compétition avec la Chine l’axe central de la politique étrangère de Washington. Ce basculement a des implications majeures pour les équilibres stratégiques au Moyen-Orient, qu’il s’agisse de …
Reinventing the Sheikhdom
On May 14, 2022, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (commonly known as MbZ) officially became the third president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) following the death of his half-brother Khalifa. In effect, the announcement acknowledged a reality of Abu Dhabi politics obvious for the past decade; MbZ was already the de facto ruler of the country.MbZ and his inner circle’s steady conquest of power within the UAE has been the topic of many journalistic …
Digital routes and borders in the Middle East
In the second half of the 2010s, the Arabian Peninsula experienced major foreign policy changes that suggested a reshuffling of the region as a security complex. This paper offers an analysis of the geography of Internet data routing in the Middle East in order to assess whether foreign policy shifts apply to cyberspace and the potential for meaningful cybersecurity cooperation. We specifically focus on the Qatar blockade and the Abraham agreemen…
Les armées du Golfe, entre dépendances et autonomie
The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Elusiveness of Defense Cooperation
The 2017–21 blockade of Qatar has frequently been depicted as the largest obstacle to further cooperation within the Gulf Cooperation Council. However, this narrative overestimates the impact of the dispute and underestimates the historical limitations of the GCC and its multilateral projects prior to the crisis. GCC initiatives rarely produced tangible results, even before 2017, because their primary function was at the rhetorical level for Gulf…
Gulf states and the Indo-Pacific
Indigenous Military Reforms from the Outside
10.1080/14702436.2023.2246392
Decisive Victory’ and Israel's Quest For a New Military Strategy
In 2020, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the development of a new operational concept called Decisive Victory that aimed to change the way Israel fights wars and to redefine victory on the battlefield. The root cause of this change was the evolution in nonstate threats from armed groups in Gaza and Lebanon. The concept was to drive major reforms of the IDF in training, interoperability among the services, weapons procurement, and civil‐…
The Gulf States’ Decade
The books by Dina Esfandiary, Cinzia Bianco, and Tobias Borck delve into the shift in Gulf politics over the past decade. This change saw in particular Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar playing a more prominent role in regional affairs, which was influenced by the Arab Spring uprisings and Gulf states’ concerns over American commitments to regional security. The books also highlight the diverging foreign policies of Gulf states, challenging the no…
Small state strategies towards military self-reliance
10.1080/14799855.2025.2549976
Le Golfe entre Pékin et Washington
Jusqu’à la fin des années 2010, alors que la compétition sino-américaine était encore contenue, les monarchies du Golfe dépendaient largement des États-Unis pour leur sécurité et de la Chine pour leur prospérité. Cette posture tend à évoluer, à des degrés divers selon les pays, vers une forme de balancier entre les deux super-puissances. L’Arabie saoudite et les Émirats arabes unis se distinguent par leur rapprochement avec Pékin, y compris dans …
The Rise and Fall of the G5 Sahel
This article examines the rise and fall of the G5 Sahel, a regional security organization created in 2014 by Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, with strong support from external partners. While the G5 Sahel quickly became a pillar of counterterrorism efforts in the region, it collapsed less than a decade later following the withdrawal of several member states after successive military coups. The article argues that the G5 Sahel funct…
Israël
Normalisation des relations avec les voisins arabes ; dissuasion de toute agression ; messianisme impliquant l’extension territoriale : les trois notions rythment et organisent depuis des décennies les stratégies d’Israël. En dépit des progrès sur les chemins de la normalisation qui semblaient promis par les accords d’Abraham, le messianisme paraît, avec le poids de l’extrême droite dans le gouvernement Netanyahou, devoir peser lourd dans la reco…
Political science (21 works) · Law (17 works) · Law (12 works) · Political economy (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (7 works)