Edgar Göll, Silvia Colombo and Eduard Soler i Lecha, Imagining Future(s) for the Middle East and North Africa, March 2019 […]
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Tag: MENA
“Interregnum: the regional order in the Middle East and North Africa after 2011”, Raffaella A. Del Sarto, Helle Malmvig and Eduard Soler i Lecha (CIDOB, Spain)
Raffaella A. Del Sarto, Helle Malmvig and Eduard Soler i Lecha, Interregnum: The Regional Order in the Middle East and […]
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“What prospects for stabilisation and reconstruction in the Middle East and North Africa?”, Luigi Narbone (RSCAS, EUI, Italy)
Luigi Narbone, ‘What prospects for stabilisation and reconstruction in the Middle East and North Africa?` What role for local and […]
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“The EU Global Strategy and the MENA Region: In Search of Resilience”, Andrea Dessí (IAI, Italy)
Europe has made some progress in implementing the EU Global Strategy, yet, when it comes to the Middle East and […]
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“Migration Dynamics in Play in Morocco: Trafficking and Political Relationships and their implications at the Regional Level”, Mehdi Lahlou (IAI, Italy)
Mehdi Lahlou, Migration Dynamics in Play in Morocco: Trafficking and Political Relationships and their implications at the Regional Level, MENARA Papers, Working […]
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“The governance of migration and border controls in the European-North African Context”, Jean-Pierre Cassarino, Raffaella A. Del Sarto (IAI, Italy)
MENARA Papers Against the backdrop of the growing leverage that MENA states have been acquiring vis-à-vis Europe on the issue […]
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“Exiting war economy dynamics: The impact on stabilisation and reconstruction in the MENA” MEDirections Annual Conference (RSCASS, Italy)
In addition to the well-known security dimension, years of military strife and state collapse in the Middle East and North […]
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“The EU, Resilience and the MENA Region”, Silvia Colombo, et. al. (eds.) (IAI, Italy)
The EU Global Strategy outlines an ambitious set of objectives to refashion the EU’s foreign and security policy. Fostering […]
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“A Resilience Approach to a Failed Accession State: The Case of Turkey”, Sinan Ülgen (IAI, Italy)
The concept of “building resilience” in Turkey can be defined as improving the capacity of institutions and society to withstand […]
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“The European Union must effectively develop energy relations with global producers and partners”, Lukáš Tichý, Nikita Odintsov, Jan Mazač, Jan Prouza, a Michaela Prouzová (IIR, Prague)
There are almost no oil or gas resources in the EU. To strengthen its energy security, the EU has taken […]
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The Russian Web in the Mediterranean Region, Anna-Sophie Maass and Andrea Beccaro (CoE, Natolin)
Nowadays, the Mediterranean region’s balance of power is challenged by several conflicts and actors. Russia has taken advantage of this […]
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Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitical Review: Shifting Un-balances in the Middle East (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)
The Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitical Review (EMGR) is an annual scholarly journal published by the Cyprus Center for European and International […]
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The EU’s Constructions of the Mediterranean, Münevver Cebeci (IAI, Italy)
This document summarizes the findings of MEDRESET’s WP1 on the EU construction of the Mediterranean and identifies policy implications. How […]
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Lessons to be Learned from Other Experiences of Socio-economic Transformation for Youth in the SEM Region, Marco Giugni, Maria Mexi, Tristan Boursier (IAI, Italy)
This report contains a discussion of the main findings emerging from a comparative study conducted in the context of Work […]
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Algeria: reform before demands turn revolutionary, Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck (Elcano, Spain)
In a context of social and economic distress, Algeria is no longer able to maintain its current approach to the welfare state while […]
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The European Community Framing of the Mediterranean (1970-1990), Sally Khalifa Isaac and Haidi Esmat Kares (IAI, Italy)
This paper examines the early phase of European construction of the Mediterranean during the 1970s and 1980s. It seeks to […]
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The EU’s Framing of the Mediterranean (1990-2002): Building a Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, Pol Morillas and Eduard Soler i Lecha (IAI, Italy)
This paper looks into what was a defining phase for Euro-Mediterranean relations. In the 1990s the Mediterranean was presented as […]
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The EU’s Constructions of the Mediterranean (2003-2017), Münevver Cebeci and Tobias Schumacher (IAI, Italy)
This report offers a critical discourse analysis of the EU’s conception of the Mediterranean since 2003. It attempts to display […]
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Youth and the Mediterranean: Exploring New Approaches to Dialogue and Cooperation, Andrea Dessì, Lorenzo Kamel (IAI, Italy)
Youth are among the most active demographic group to have challenged the authoritarianism of the state before, during and after […]
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Europe, the Green Line and the Issue of the Israeli-Palestinian Border: Closing the Gap between Discourse and Practice?, Federica Bicchi and Benedetta Voltolini (Sciences Po)
The article analyses how the Europeans (meaning European states and the EC/EU) have progressively turned a discourse about the Israeli-Palestinian […]
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European Parliament workshop on “Human rights in Iran after the nuclear deal: Business as usual or time for change?”, contributions by Giulia Bonacquisti, Nazila Ghanea and Firouzeh Nahavandi
TEPSA coordinated the participation of two academic experts, Nazila Ghanea (University of Oxford) and Firouzeh Nahavandi (Université Libre de Bruxelles) in a […]
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Do Two Wrongs Make a Right?, Veronika Bilkova (IIR, Czech Republic)
On Thursday, 6 April 2017, the US carried out a missile strike in Syria. It did so in response to […]
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The 2016 parliamentary elections in Morocco: context and interpretations, Bernabé López García and Miguel Hernando de Larramendi (Elcano, Spain)
On 7 October 2016 the Justice and Development Party revalidated its victory in the Moroccan parliamentary elections. Link:http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_en/contenido?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/elcano/elcano_in/zonas_in/ari17-2017-lopezgarcia-hernandodelarramendi-2016-parliamentary-elections-morocco
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The EU-Turkey March 2016 Agreement As a Model: New Refugee Regimes and Practices in the Arab Mediterranean and the Case of Libya, Peter Seebert (IAI, Italy)
Taking as its point of departure the EU-Turkey agreement of March 2016 regarding refugees and migrants, this paper analyses the […]
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New developmentalist experiments in Brazil and Egypt – a comparative study, Judit Ricz (IWE, Hungary)
The financial and economic crisis of 2008-9 and the following difficulties have brought back the analysis of active state involvement […]
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Study for the European Parliament: “Occupation/Annexation of a Territory: Respect for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and Consistent EU Policy”, by Pål Wrange and Sarah Helaoui
TEPSA has recently coordinated a study for the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs, authored by Pål Wrange (Stockholm University, […]
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