Africa has only contributed a small fraction of global greenhouse gas emissions yet faces disproportionate risks from climate change. This […]
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Tag: Africa
“Funding flows for climate change research on Africa: Where do they come from and where do they go?”, Haakon Fossum Sagbakken, Roman Vakulchuk, Aidai Isataeva and Galina Kolodzinskaia, Nicholas Philip Simpson and Christopher Trisos (NUPI, Norway)
Africa has only contributed a small fraction of global greenhouse gas emissions yet faces disproportionate risks from climate change. This […]
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“Understanding Ad-Hoc Security Intitiatives in Africa”, Cedric de Coning, Andrew E. Yaw Tchie, Natasja Rupesinghe and Anab Ovidie Grand (NUPI, Norway)
The policy brief examines the rise of ad-hoc security initiatives (ASIs) as an established type of collective security mechanism. ASIs […]
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“Decolonising human rights protection in Africa: impunity rhetorically repackaged?”, Stef Vandeginste (Egmont, Belgium)
Pointing out the need to decolonise human rights protection in Africa, authorities at the level of the African Union (AU) […]
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“Africa doesn’t yearn for Europe: rewriting narratives on migration”, Oriol Puig Cepero (CIDOB, Spain)
The situation in Ceuta may suggest otherwise, but (most of) Africa does not yearn to come to Europe. Many more […]
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“Women and power: from descriptive to substantive representation”, Mercedes García Montero and Cristina Rivas Pérez (CIDOB, Spain)
Great strides have been made over the past few decades in all representative democracies to increase women’s presence in politics […]
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“Italy and Africa: “Value Oriented Diplomacy” in Action”, Fabrizio Lobasso (IAI, Italy)
The “Partnership with Africa” outlines present and future scenarios for the African continent and the role Italy can play in […]
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“Reviewing Jihadist Governance in the Sahel”, Natasja Rupesinghe, Mikael Hiberg Naghizadeh and Corentin Cohen (NUPI, Norway)
The ways in which jihadist insurgents in the Sahel govern is rarely considered in the academic literature. They have often […]
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“France’s African and Mediterranean Policy: Towards a Reinvention of Exceptionalism?”, Pernille Rieker (NUPI, Norway)
Engagement in Africa is still at the heart of French foreign policy. Over the past twenty years, this African policy […]
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“African megatrends: Looking over the horizon into the future”, Olli Ruohomäki (FIIA, Finland)
There are seven megatrends shaping the future of Africa. These include population growth, urbanization, climate change, democratization, protracted conflict, connectivity […]
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“Africa’s Dependency Curse: – the Case of Botswana”, Zsuzsánna Biedermann (IWE, Hungary)
Zsuzsánna Biedermann analyses the complex reasons behind the largely fruitless diversification efforts in Botswana. Many African countries abundant in non-renewable […]
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The Joint Africa-EU strategy, Nicoletta Pirozzi, Nicoló Sartori and Bernardo Venturi (European Parliament)
TEPSA has recently coordinated a publication for the European Parliament’s Subcommittee the European Parliament’s Committee on Development (DEVE) on The […]
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The Russian Web in the Mediterranean Region, Anna-Sophie Maass and Andrea Beccaro (College of Europe 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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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
Read moreAll’s Wrong That Starts Wrong – Withdrawals from the International Criminal Court, Tamas Lattman (IIR, Czech Republic)
The Hague-based International Criminal Court, the world’s first temporary judicial forum, created in 1998 by the adoption of the Rome […]
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Study for the European Parliament: “State of play of EU-Mauritania relations”, by Morten Boas
TEPSA coordinated a study on the state of play of the EU’s relations with Mauritania, commissioned by the European Parliament’s […]
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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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