Publié en décembre 2020. Rédigé par Mahmoud Hammad Social media have provided space for citizens to comment on and criticize the policies during the time of troubles. Considering the growing importance of social media, many scholars have argued that 2010-2011 revolutions that took place in Southern neighborhood countries,...

Publié en décembre 2019. Rédigé par Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome Over the last decade, the Mediterranean and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has experienced profound and far-reaching social, political and economic transformations that have contributed to unprecedented levels of volatility and uncertainty across...

Publié en december 2019. Rédigé par Sherin Gharib. The concept of joint ownership has become a buzzword since the 1990s not only in strategies of international organisations, such as the United Nations (UN), the World Bank (WB) or the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but also in European Union (EU) foreign policy. Since the...

Publié en mars 2019. Rédigé par Daniele Fattibene, Nicolò Sartori The aim of this brief is to analyze the regional impact of climate change on the different components of human security, by clustering them into three macro dimensions: the environmental dimension, the economic dimension and the humanitarian one.  

Publié en mars 2019. Rédigé par Irene Fernández-Molina This paper seeks to trace and explain the diverging and non-linear trajectories of the three central Maghreb countries’ foreign policies towards the EU since the 2011 Arab Uprisings. The analysis is situated within the big structural picture and debates about the putative...

Publié en avril 2019. Rédigé par Cengiz Gunay This paper deals with the question of whether and how political change in the two countries has affected their foreign policy-making towards the European Union (EU). Building on a liberal international relations (IR) perspective and elite theory, the paper focuses on the politically...

Publié en avril 2019. Rédigé par Alexandra Kuimova The Policy Brief begins by outlining Russia’s growing interest in the MENA region. It identifies both the strategy and motivations driving Russia’s arms exports, and equally to the region, and the demand for arms by MENA countries.

Publié en octobre 2019. Rédigé par Žilvinas Švedkauskas This policy brief aims to unpack how European high-tech companies have helped to broaden the “authoritarian toolkit” of the Egyptian regime. Subsequently, it reviews empirical fingerprints left by application of similar techniques by the Egyptian government pursuing its...

Publié en juillet 2019. Rédigé par Sarah Adjel-Debbich, Ghaliya Djelloul L’entrée des citoyennes et des citoyens algériens, de manière massive, sur la scène politique depuis trois mois, ne constitue ni le premier épisode de son « ouverture », ni une parenthèse isolée de son histoire. Elle s’inscrit plutôt dans la continuité...

Publié en mai 2019. Rédigé par Tasnim Abderrahim The European Union seeks to secure closer cooperation with Morocco and Tunisia on migration, particularly on border management, readmission of their own nationals who are irregularly present in the EU, and reception of third country nationals who transited to Europe through their...

Publié en mai 2019. Rédigé par Patrycja Sasnal, Yasemin El-Menoua, Sergio Altuna, George Fahmi For at least three decades now religion has been re-entering the public sphere and politics in Europe and globally. Its re-emergence, however, bears little resemblance to the past when the religion-state coupling was unequivocal.

Publié en avril 2019. Rédigé par Nouran S. Ahmed The aim of this policy brief is to point out the shortcomings of the research agenda on violence and counter-violence policies over the last seven years, with the main focus on the obstacle of accessing information as a prerequisite to comprehend the current wave of violence, as...

Publié en avril 2019. Rédigé par Paolo Maggiolini The present policy brief aims to analyse EU dialogue and engagement with Islam in the Mediterranean contexts after the Arab uprisings. The aim is to reconsider how the EU has developed its approach to the Mediterranean and Islam in terms of intercultural and interreligious...

Publié en mars 2018. Roger Albinyana Analyse du retour de l'Egypte sur la scène méditerranéenne, illustrées par la nomination de l'ambassadeur égyptien Nasser Kamel au poste de nouveau secrétaire général de l'Union Pour la Méditerranée.   Abstract: On 6 February 2018, the Senior Officials from the Ministries of Foreign...

Publié en novembre 2017 par l'Euromesco Rapport sur l'atelier «Nouvelles dynamiques euro-méditerranéennes en Méditerranée orientale», organisé par MIVTIM en coopération avec ELIAMEP le 10 novembre à Athènes. Les participants ont analysé divers facteurs qui pourraient constituer des opportunités et des menaces pour une...

Par Ziad Akl. Juin 2017 Summary : Putting an end to the ongoing political and military conflict in Libya requires effectively dealing with one of the major security threats: militias and armed groups. In light of the weak structural nature of the Libyan state, the acute military and political contentions and the challenges it...

19 mai 2017. Summary : On 19 May in Brussels, the European Union Institute for Security Studies organised a seminar on Security Sector Reform (SSR) in the Middle East and North Africa. The seminar gathered practitioners from the field and EU officials in order to discuss the difficulties presented by the SSR in the Southern...

Summary : In light of the security challenges of the post-Arab Spring, Tunisia has been actively seeking for new international partnerships and assistance in order to modernise its defence forces and tackle security threats with greater efficiency. 

Par Stefano M. Torelli. Paper N° 33. Avril 2017 Summary : North Africa is experiencing the emergence of various Jihadist groups that are proving to be highly capable of and effective in capitalising regional instability and advancing their political programmes and military operations at the expense of the on-going post-Arab...

Report n°16. Février 2017 Summary : The second UfM Regional Forum,  held on 24 January in Barcelona in the margins of the meeting of the UfM Ministers of Foreign Affairs, was dedicated to youth. The overall theme was "Mediterranean in Action: Youth for Stability and Development". One of the panels of this conference,...

Report n°15. Janvier 2017 Summary : The Dialogue Workshop “Tunisia’s Transformation: The First Five Years“ took place on 4 November 2016 in Tunis. The event is part of a Working Package, led by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA). It has been organised under the EuroMeSCo ENI Project, co-financed by the EU...

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