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Fanny Privat, January 2024
Top 15 arms manufacturers by 2022 armaments division turnover
Fanny Privat, January 2024
Total arms exports 2011-5
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War without end
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The legal trade in light weapons
, 13 June 2006
Crime
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Demography
Global population growth
Cécile Marin, July 2018
Lure of the West
Cécile Marin, July 2018
East-west divide
Cécile Marin, July 2018
Population change by region
Cécile Marin, July 2018
Africa’s population boom
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Senior citizens around the world
Philippe Rekacewicz, May 2013
Life on Earth
Philippe Rekacewicz, July 2011
In Russia, a worrying decline
Philippe Rekacewicz, July 2011
China’s people problem
Philippe Rekacewicz, July 2011
Economy
Electric vehicles and the raw materials required
Elsa Delmas
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Cécile Marin, September 2018
Tomato trade
Agnès Stienne, June 2017
Africa’s debt repayment and the vulture funds
Cécile Marin, May 2015
The airport malls
Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2013
From Earth to Mars
Philippe Rekacewicz, July 2012
Ups and down of GDP
Cécile Marin, March 2012
Energy
Energy interdependence
Cécile Marin, May 2022
Gas pipelines and LNG carriers
Cécile Marin, May 2021
An over-nuclear Europe
Philippe Rekacewicz
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Agnès Stienne, August 2013
Nuclear power generation capacity
Philippe Rekacewicz, July 2011
Eurasia: the hot heartland of the world
Philippe Rekacewicz, June 2007
Asia: in the pipeline
Philippe Rekacewicz, May 2005
Oil routes
Philippe Rekacewicz, June 1998
Environment
Rich countries responsible for climate disruption
Cécile Marin, February 2024
Norway’s undersea potential
Adolf Buitenhuis, January 2024
Exploiting the seabed
Cécile Marin, January 2024
Lithium: sources and production across the world
Cécile Marin, October 2022
The carbon balance
, 20 December 2021
What’s in a phone?
Fanny Privat, October 2021
CO2 emissions around the world
, 20 December 2021
Global trade in plastic waste
Cécile Marin, May 2021
OPEC’s share of production in a changing oil market
Cécile Marin, July 2020
Oil production and consumption around the world
Cécile Marin, July 2020
Arctic icebreaker fleets, 2020
Cécile Marin, May 2020
Maritime trade routes, 2020
Cécile Marin, April 2020
Antarctic icebreaker fleets
Cécile Marin, April 2020
Who eats the most seafood?
Cécile Marin, October 2018
The world’s main salmon producers
Cécile Marin, October 2018
Food’s greenhouse gas footprint
Cécile Marin, October 2018
Definitions of marine zones
Cécile Marin, July 2016
Who’s ready for climate change?
Cécile Marin, December 2015
Growth of CO2 emissions
Cécile Marin, October 2015
Climate change puts polar bears at risk
Cécile Marin, October 2015
Arctic ice extent
Philippe Rekacewicz, October 2013
Imbalanced use of agricultural land
Agnès Stienne, March 2013
Soybeans for animal feed
Agnès Stienne, March 2013
Growing demand for meat
Agnès Stienne, March 2013
China’s thirsty north
, 30 August 2006
The Soviet inheritance
Philippe Rekacewicz, July 2000
The Aral Sea disaster
Philippe Rekacewicz, July 2000
Health
Who’s hiring foreign doctors?
Cécile Marin, February 2024
Mortality among children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa, 2010
Philippe Rekacewicz, June 2013
Health across the world
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2012
Live long if you’re prosperous
Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2010
How the lack of sanitation kills
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2010
Cholera accross the world
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2010
Inequality
Major incidents of water-related violence since 2000s
Cécile Marin, July 2023
Water stress
Cécile Marin, July 2023
Percentage of population with no guaranteed access to safe drinking water
Cécile Marin, June 2023
Both poor and a woman
Cécile Marin, July 2019
Widely varied legislation
Cécile Marin, January 2017
Maternity leave in Europe
Cécile Marin
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Anne-Cécile Robert, January 2016
Geography of tourism
Philippe Rekacewicz, June 2012
World poverty
Philippe Rekacewicz, May 2000
International
Shrinking international waters
Cécile Marin, January 2023
Five Eyes spy network
Cécile Marin, March 2022
China at the UN
Fanny Privat, December 2020
China leads the 5G race
Fanny Privat, November 2020
A religious map of India
Cécile Marin, July 2019
May 2019 parliamentary election
Cécile Marin, July 2019
North Korea: a nuclear world
Cécile Marin, October 2017
Will all our languages be Romanised?
Cécile Marin, September 2017
World’s major 24-hour news channels
Cécile Marin, March 2017
Turkey’s relations with the world
Cécile Marin, March 2017
Who contributes to UN peacekeeping
Cécile Marin, March 2017
Major armed Sunni Islamist groups
Cécile Marin, April 2015
The multiplying paths of jihad
Philippe Rekacewicz, October 2013
Use of UN right of veto since the end of the second world war
Philippe Rekacewicz, September 2005
The United Nations: how it all works
Philippe Rekacewicz, September 2005
US, the UN’s main debtor
Philippe Rekacewicz, September 2005
Active peacekeeping operations to 30 June 2005
Philippe Rekacewicz, September 2005
Regional organisations
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
The main conflicts of the 1990s
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
UN peace-keeping operations
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
Migrations and refugees
Peoples of Transcaucasia
Cécile Marin, February 2021
Life in Hagadera
Benoît Bréville, Leopold Charniot
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Cécile Marin, June 2017
Montreal global city
Cécile Marin, March 2017
Harder crossing points for desperate refugees
Cécile Marin, April 2016
New routes, new obstacles
Cécile Marin, January 2016
One in five Syrian has fled the country
Cécile Marin, September 2015
Migration
Philippe Rekacewicz, November 2014
The EU’s expulsion machine
Olivier Clochard
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Philippe Rekacewicz, June 2010
Refugees and asylum seekers
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 2008
Displaced people
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 2008
Stateless people
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 2008
How the burden of the world’s refugees falls on the South-1
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 2001
How the burden of the world’s refugees falls on the South-2
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 2001
How the burden of the world’s refugees falls on the South-3
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 2001
How the burden of the world’s refugees falls on the South-4
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 2001
The rising tide of refugees
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
REGIONAL
Africa
Eastern DRC: mines, armed groups, refugees
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Dangote’s Nigerian empire
Cécile Marin, April 2023
Tensions and blackmail over Western Sahara
Cécile Marin, July 2022
Sand barriers of the Sahara
Agnès Stienne, October 2021
Ethiopia’s failed experiment in ethno-federalism
Cécile Marin, July 2021
Africa’s oil-rich national parks
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Libya divided
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Passport power
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African national parks managed by African Parks
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Sudan: conflict, violence and repression
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Niger, a migration crossroads
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Cameroon’s colonial history
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Growing insecurity in Mali
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Mozambique: the lie of the land
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Israel’s quest for influence in Africa
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Conflict and drought starve Africa
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South Sudan issues
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Rivalries in the Horn of Africa
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Two decades of war in the Great Lakes region
Cécile Marin, January 2016
A country divided
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Security issues and actors in Africa
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A land of disparities
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Western Sahara resources
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Ethiopiaʼs stolen land
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Africa without its margins
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Sahara-Sahel : movements and routes
Philippe Rekacewicz, March 2012
Uganda
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Useful Africa
Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2011
Utopian Africa
Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2011
Unequal development, selective investments
Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2011
Reunion, integrated island
Philippe Rekacewicz, March 2010
DRC’s Chinese corridor
Philippe Rekacewicz, September 2009
Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral resources
, 17 July 2006
France and US’ eyes on Africa
Philippe Rekacewicz, July 2004
Africa in a state of flux
Philippe Rekacewicz, May 2000
Power struggle in the Great Lakes region
Philippe Rekacewicz, May 2000
Renewed foreign-power rivalry
Philippe Rekacewicz, May 2000
Africa’s coveted mineral resources
Philippe Rekacewicz, May 2000
Failed attempts at democracy
Philippe Rekacewicz, May 2000
Millions of refugees in Africa
Philippe Rekacewicz, May 2000
France trapped in Rwanda
Philippe Rekacewicz, May 2000
A continent exhausted by war and famine
Sylvie Brunel
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Cécile Marin, January 2000
The coveted riches of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
Ethiopia-Eritrea, an open wound
Cécile Marin, January 2000
Battle for oil in Nigeria
Cécile Marin, February 1999
Arab world
The Houthi rebellion: three straits and a canal
Cécile Marin, February 2024
Yemen’s fractured territory
Cécile Marin, May 2023
Pilgrimage routes
Cécile Marin, July 2020
The new Arab Awakening
Philippe Rekacewicz, March 2011
Asia
Indian disparities
Cécile Marin, April 2024
India’s kaleidoscope
Cécile Marin, April 2024
Northeast India’s tribal kaleidoscope
Adolf Buitenhuis, August 2023
Singapore: globalised city-state
Cécile Marin, August 2023
The disputed Mekong delta
Cécile Marin, May 2023
Muslims in India
, 1 March 2022
India, Pakistan and the new Afghan Great Game
Agnès Stienne, December 2021
Border tensions
Fanny Privat, November 2020
Bangsamoro: Philippines’ new Muslim-majority region
, 1 April 2020
Religion in India
Cécile Marin, February 2020
Xinjiang: the Uyghurs’ resource-rich homeland
Agnès Stienne, March 2019
Chagos: a US airstrip in the Indian Ocean
Cécile Marin, December 2018
Vying for trade routes in the Bay of Bengal
Agnès Stienne, November 2018
The Sino-Russian frontier
Cécile Marin, July 2018
Fukushima: seven years on
Cécile Marin, April 2018
Japan’s bluefin tuna
Agnès Stienne, January 2018
China’s new Silk Road
Agnès Stienne, October 2017
Central Asia, vital cooperation on energy
Cécile Marin, February 2017
Growth forecast for Japanese robot market
, 6 September 2016
Singapore at the apex
Agnès Stienne, August 2016
How the North was won
Agnès Stienne, August 2016
Conflicting claims in the South China Sea
Cécile Marin, July 2016
Pakistan’s neighbourhood relations
Cécile Marin, March 2016
China’s agricultural wealth
Agnès Stienne, October 2015
US military presence in Japan
Cécile Marin, September 2015
Rivalries in the China Seas
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2015
Peoples of Central Asia
Agnès Stienne, January 2015
Sri Lanka’s peoples
Agnès Stienne, July 2014
India’s 2009 legislative election
Agnès Stienne, May 2014
Facts and figures
, 1 May 2014
Fighting for a couple of rocks
Philippe Rekacewicz, December 2012
Burma: pipelines and peoples
Philippe Rekacewicz, December 2009
Afghan-Pakistan border: new centre of the ‘war on terror’
Philippe Rekacewicz, December 2009
India : defence in mind
Philippe Rekacewicz, September 2009
India’s armed forces
Philippe Rekacewicz, September 2009
China new commercial power
Philippe Rekacewicz, October 2004
When the East was the world’s manufacturing centre 16th-18th centuries
Philippe Rekacewicz, October 2004
Economic liberalisation in Vietnam
Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2000
The mountain war in Kashmir
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
Regions disputed by Pakistan, India and China since 1947
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
East Timor’s assets
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
The strange alliance between Thailand and Burma
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
A tangle of nations and conflicts
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
Violence in the Indonesian archipelago
Cécile Marin, June 1999
Rivalry in the China Sea
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 1997
Korea divided
Philippe Rekacewicz, November 1994
The attractions of Irian-Jaya (Indonesia)
Philippe Rekacewicz, July 1994
Kazakhstan - ethnic variety and oil wealth
Philippe Rekacewicz, March 1994
Balkans
Kosovo’s minorities
Cécile Marin, April 2023
Bosnia-Herzegovina: three intertwined histories
Cécile Marin, May 2022
Montenegro’s path to independence
Cécile Marin, March 2021
Macedonia past and present
Cécile Marin, June 2016
Dreams of empire
Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2008
Boundaries of Eastern Europe
Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2008
What borders for Albania?
Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2008
Use of depleted uranium weapons in Kosovo: map 2
Balkans Unit - UNEP, July 2000
The changing shape of Yugoslavia (1815-1999)
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
NATO bombing targets in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (March-June 1999)
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
Use of depleted uranium weapons in Kosovo: map 1
Balkans Unit - UNEP, January 2000
The Balkans weakened by NATO’s war
Cécile Marin, May 1999
Bosnia - the Dayton partition (21 September 1995)
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 1999
The Albanians, a scattered people
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 1999
Fighting and population movements in Kosovo in 1998
Cécile Marin, January 1999
Macedonia risks falling apart
Cécile Marin, January 1999
Caucasus
Azerbaijan’s endgame in Nagorno-Karabakh
Cécile Marin, December 2023
The evolving Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict
Cécile Marin, April 2023
Ukraine at war
Cécile Marin, August 2022
Ukraine’s logistical crisis
Fanny Privat, July 2022
Transnistria: a pro-Russian enclave in Europe
Cécile Marin, January 2022
Russia boosts its presence in the Black Sea
Cécile Marin, February 2019
Moscow plans for the future
Cécile Marin, July 2015
Ukraine’s nuclear energy
Cécile Marin, February 2015
Ossetia caught in the Georgian war
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 2009
Abkhazia, in the zone of conflict
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 2009
Georgia’s five-day war
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 2009
Conflict in the Caucasus
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
Europe
Six decades of French motorway building
Cécile Marin, April 2024
Transcarpathia through the ages
Cécile Marin, February 2024
Spain’s unequal wealth
Fanny Privat, November 2023
The changing border between Italy and Slovenia
Cécile Marin, October 2023
Białowieża: a migrant hunting ground
Cécile Marin, March 2023
Luxembourg’s multilingual geography
Cécile Marin, January 2020
The languages of Ukraine
Cécile Marin, May 2019
NATO goes on growing
Cécile Marin, October 2018
Slovakia: severe interregional disparities
Cécile Marin, October 2017
Denmark, pushed to the edges
Cécile Marin, May 2017
Lands of the Sami
Cécile Marin, January 2017
Hungary through the ages
Agnès Stienne, November 2016
Europe’s integration spiral
, 7 November 2016
The Baltic’s crowded waters
Nicolas Escach
&
Cécile Marin, September 2016
Ukraine’s failing health system
Cécile Marin, April 2016
Wealth and poverty in Germany
Cécile Marin, April 2015
Fortress Russia
Cécile Marin, May 2014
Between Europe and Russia
Agnès Stienne, March 2014
Voting for the right
Cécile Marin, February 2014
National borders in 20th century Europe
Philippe Rekacewicz, May 2013
Debt crisis, or crisis caused by debt?
Philippe Rekacewicz, March 2012
Europe fuzzy borders
Philippe Rekacewicz, March 2012
Dividing line on the Brussels metro
, 6 November 2008
The Schengen area
Philippe Rekacewicz, June 2000
Ethnic cleansing in Cyprus
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
Greek and Turkish claims in the Aegean
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 1997
Ireland divided
Cécile Marin, January 1997
The Russian kaleidoscope
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 1997
Environmental catastrophe and strategic interests in Europe’s Arctic region
Philippe Rekacewicz, September 1996
Gulf
Kurdistan borders
Philippe Rekacewicz, May 2013
Iraq - nine years after the Gulf War
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
Yemen unity under strain
Philippe Rekacewicz, July 1994
The anti-Iraqi coalition in 1991
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 1991
The Gulf War (17 January to 3 March 1991)
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 1991
Middle East
Antisemitism across the world
Cécile Marin, December 2023
Palestine, a non-member observer state at the UN
Cécile Marin, November 2023
International reactions to the Hamas attack of 7 October
Cécile Marin, November 2023
Israel, a state armed to the teeth
Cécile Marin, November 2023
An unequal death toll
Cécile Marin, November 2023
Gaza under fire
Cécile Marin, November 2023
From occupation to self-administered territories
Cécile Marin, November 2023
Women’s rights in the Middle East and North Africa
Cécile Marin, June 2023
Cairo’s expansion and growing inequality
Cécile Marin, May 2023
Kurdish autonomous regions
Cécile Marin, March 2023
The shape of a nuclear Middle East
Fanny Privat, October 2022
The fragmented West Bank
Cécile Marin, August 2022
Fragmented Yemen
Cécile Marin, July 2022
Fragmented territories
Cécile Marin, May 2022
Border tensions
Cécile Marin, January 2021
Russia and Turkey: partners and rivals
Cécile Marin, December 2020
Trump’s Palestine plan: enshrining occupation
Cécile Marin, February 2020
Rojava, a fragmented territory
Cécile Marin, February 2020
Kurds under attack in northern Syria
Cécile Marin, November 2019
Afghanistan: the fighting continues
Cécile Marin, April 2019
Yemen: a divided country
Cécile Marin, March 2019
Iran’s far-reaching Shia networks
Cécile Marin, January 2018
Yemen: humanitarian disaster of Saudi intervention
Cécile Marin, December 2017
Kurdish territories in northern Syria
Cécile Marin, September 2017
Who’s who in the battle for Aleppo
Cécile Marin, December 2016
Syria and Iraq: multilateral conflicts
Cécile Marin, November 2016
Golan Heights: strategic plateau
Cécile Marin, October 2016
Kurdish lands in regional war
Agnès Stienne, June 2016
The mullahs’ asymmetric rule
Philippe Descamps
&
Cécile Marin, April 2016
Oil and religion don’t explain everything
Cécile Marin, April 2015
Kurds vs jihadists: the theatre of war
Cécile Marin, October 2014
End of empire to jihadist dreams
Agnès Stienne, July 2014
Geography of chaos
Philippe Rekacewicz, November 2007
Iran and Iraq: the limits on Shia power
Philippe Rekacewicz, July 2005
The Initiative’s terms of agreement
, 12 December 2003
Palestinian territory fragmented
Philippe Rekacewicz, November 2001
Mapping the conflict
Philippe Rekacewicz, September 2001
Israel’s concessions
Orient House, Jerusalem, December 2000
Israeli territorial proposals
Philippe Rekacewicz, December 2000
Coveted water resources
Philippe Rekacewicz, June 2000
Continuously expanding settlement in East Jerusalem
Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2000
Golan and South Lebanon
Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2000
A Palestinian State splintered by settlements
Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2000
The Palestinian diaspora
Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2000
Millions of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East
Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2000
The Golan annexed, South Lebanon occupied
Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2000
Palestinian refugees living in the Middle East
Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2000
The Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum (4 September 1999)
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
Maale Adumim, a flagship settlement in the West Bank
Jan de Jong, November 1999
Jordan under pressure
Cécile Marin, March 1999
Escalating risks in the Middle East
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 1999
The partition of Palestine (1947-49)
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 1998
The first Arab-Israeli war (1948-49)
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 1998
The occupation of Sinai (1956)
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 1998
The Six Day War (1967)
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 1998
The October War (1973)
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 1998
Oslo II (28 September 1995)
Philippe Rekacewicz, April 1997
The Kurds, a people divided
Philippe Rekacewicz, September 1996
The Middle East in 1914
Philippe Rekacewicz, August 1992
The Middle East in 1939
Philippe Rekacewicz, August 1992
North America
Greenland’s sea of ice
Cécile Marin, March 2023
America’s ageing nuclear facilities
Cécile Marin, July 2022
Miami: flood risk and development
Cécile Marin, May 2020
Oceania
Australia: bushfires and natural and mineral resources
Agnès Stienne, February 2020
South America
Per capita income and Venezuelan population of Madrid
Cécile Marin, April 2024
Santiago’s fine but unequal metro system
Cécile Marin, February 2023
Latin America’s contested borders
Cécile Marin, November 2022
The Trans-Amazonian Highway
Fanny Privat, May 2022
Meandering through Paraguay
Agnès Stienne, September 2021
Bolivia’s shrinking glaciers
Cécile Marin, August 2020
Urban development in Panama City
Cécile Marin, July 2015
Trade routes around the Americas
Cécile Marin, August 2014
Guerrillas and paramilitary forces in Colombia
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 2000
The Panama Canal, a link between two oceans
Cécile Marin, August 1999
Major drug routes in Latin America
Cécile Marin, January 1998
Guerrillas, past and present
Cécile Marin, February 1997
Indians and guerrillas in Chiapas
Philippe Rekacewicz, January 1997
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