The relevance of the IOR is fourfold, First historical relevance. The Indian Ocean has been a zone of human interaction for several millennia, boasting a 1,500 years history of active high seas trade -much before the arrival of Europeans in 1498. Adequate proofs exist to establish that the...

Pour connaître la pauvreté, il faut connaitre l'histoire de la pauvreté. Le cas de l'île de Mayotte, désarticulée de l'archipel des Comores, en 1975, est, à ce titre exemplaire. Ses populations, éternellement soumises à des envahisseurs, puis issues des pratiques esclavagistes, n'ont...

Post-2008, the surge of maritime piracy in the Gulf of Aden highlights the growing non-traditional security threat in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). Waters off the coast of Somalia has become an epicenter of the growing menace of piracy. These developments pose significant security threats to...

NGOs are widely perceived to raise their flag in humanitarian hot-spots with strong media presence in order to attract higher private donations. We assess this hypothesis by comparing the changes in donations between US-based NGOs with and without activities in the four countries most affected...