MENA – TEPSA

“The EU Global Strategy and the MENA Region: In Search of Resilience”, Andrea Dessí (IAI, Italy)

Posted on 25/01/2019

Europe has made some progress in implementing the EU Global Strategy, yet, when it comes to the Middle East and […]

“Migration Dynamics in Play in Morocco: Trafficking and Political Relationships and their implications at the Regional Level”, Mehdi Lahlou (IAI, Italy)

Posted on 17/12/2018

Mehdi Lahlou, Migration Dynamics in Play in Morocco: Trafficking and Political Relationships and their implications at the Regional Level, MENARA Papers, Working […]

“The governance of migration and border controls in the European-North African Context”, Jean-Pierre Cassarino, Raffaella A. Del Sarto (IAI, Italy)

Posted on 23/10/2018

MENARA Papers Against the backdrop of the growing leverage that MENA states have been acquiring vis-à-vis Europe on the issue […]

“Exiting war economy dynamics: The impact on stabilisation and reconstruction in the MENA” MEDirections Annual Conference (RSCASS, Italy)

Posted on 26/09/2018

In addition to the well-known security dimension, years of military strife and state collapse in the Middle East and North […]

“The EU, Resilience and the MENA Region”, Silvia Colombo, et. al. (eds.) (IAI, Italy)

Posted on 23/02/2018

The EU Global Strategy outlines an ambitious set of objectives to refashion the EU’s foreign and security policy. Fostering […]

“A Resilience Approach to a Failed Accession State: The Case of Turkey”, Sinan Ülgen (IAI, Italy)

Posted on 08/12/2017

The concept of “building resilience” in Turkey can be defined as improving the capacity of institutions and society to withstand […]

“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)

Posted on 07/12/2017

There are almost no oil or gas resources in the EU. To strengthen its energy security, the EU has taken […]

The Russian Web in the Mediterranean Region, Anna-Sophie Maass and Andrea Beccaro (CoE, Natolin)

Posted on 18/07/2017

Nowadays, the Mediterranean region’s balance of power is challenged by several conflicts and actors. Russia has taken advantage of this […]

Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitical Review: Shifting Un-balances in the Middle East (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)

Posted on 07/06/2017

The Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitical Review (EMGR) is an annual scholarly journal published by the Cyprus Center for European and International […]

The EU’s Constructions of the Mediterranean, Münevver Cebeci (IAI, Italy)

Posted on 29/05/2017

This document summarizes the findings of MEDRESET’s WP1 on the EU construction of the Mediterranean and identifies policy implications. How […]

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)

Posted on 12/05/2017

This report contains a discussion of the main findings emerging from a comparative study conducted in the context of Work […]

Algeria: reform before demands turn revolutionary, Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck (Elcano, Spain)

Posted on 28/04/2017

In a context of social and economic distress, Algeria is no longer able to maintain its current approach to the welfare state while […]

The European Community Framing of the Mediterranean (1970-1990), Sally Khalifa Isaac and Haidi Esmat Kares (IAI, Italy)

Posted on 25/04/2017

This paper examines the early phase of European construction of the Mediterranean during the 1970s and 1980s. It seeks to […]

The EU’s Framing of the Mediterranean (1990-2002): Building a Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, Pol Morillas and Eduard Soler i Lecha (IAI, Italy)

Posted on 24/04/2017

This paper looks into what was a defining phase for Euro-Mediterranean relations. In the 1990s the Mediterranean was presented as […]

The EU’s Constructions of the Mediterranean (2003-2017), Münevver Cebeci and Tobias Schumacher (IAI, Italy)

Posted on 23/04/2017

This report offers a critical discourse analysis of the EU’s conception of the Mediterranean since 2003. It attempts to display […]

Youth and the Mediterranean: Exploring New Approaches to Dialogue and Cooperation, Andrea Dessì, Lorenzo Kamel (IAI, Italy)

Posted on 22/04/2017

Youth are among the most active demographic group to have challenged the authoritarianism of the state before, during and after […]

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)

Posted on 17/04/2017

The article analyses how the Europeans (meaning European states and the EC/EU) have progressively turned a discourse about the Israeli-Palestinian […]

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

Posted on 13/04/2017

TEPSA coordinated the participation of two academic experts, Nazila Ghanea (University of Oxford) and Firouzeh Nahavandi (Université Libre de Bruxelles) in a […]

Do Two Wrongs Make a Right?, Veronika Bilkova (IIR, Czech Republic)

Posted on 10/04/2017

On Thursday, 6 April 2017, the US carried out a missile strike in Syria. It did so in response to […]

The 2016 parliamentary elections in Morocco: context and interpretations, Bernabé López García and Miguel Hernando de Larramendi (Elcano, Spain)

Posted on 09/03/2017

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