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Migrants and Refugees in the Mediterranean in Times of Pandemic: Socially Distant?

2020 has been a peculiar year for European Union (EU) migration policies. The closure of EU external borders and the suspension of asylum applications throughout Europe has turned Fortress Europe into a reality.

 18 setembre 2020

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Profile Themselves as a New Global Hub for Money Laundering, with Implications for the Balkans

Over the course of the 2010s, relations between the United Arab Emirates and several countries of the Western Balkans have increasingly tightened. Starting from 2010, good relations have been propelled by a boom of investments.

 17 setembre 2020

Lebanon in Freefall

Lebanon’s luck ran out in 2019. The country’s unsustainable debt, bad governance, internal contradictions and vulnerability to foreign interference, finally caught up with it, sending the country into economic freefall.

 17 setembre 2020

Mediterranean, Medioplasticae. Analysis of Plastic Pollution in the Mediterranean during the Coronavirus Outbreak

Plastic drainage from coastal populations into the Mediterranean Sea has been estimated at approximately half a million tonnes per year, which means that it accounts for over 7% of the global load of plastic from land into the ocean.

 17 setembre 2020

Mapping the Drivers of Radicalization and Violent Extremism in MENA and the Balkans

Since 2001 there has been growing concern in academia and policy-making to explain and counter the threats posed by violent extremist groups. Recent research on radicalization indicates the relevance of socio-economic and socio-political inequality....

 17 setembre 2020

New Power Struggles in the Mediterranean

This year, as it celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Barcelona Declaration and the launching of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, the European Union is dealing with a flurry of new actors that have recently emerged in the Mediterranean region.

 16 setembre 2020

Jordan: An Uncertain Stability

The year 2019 was a relatively quiet one for Jordan, after the protests of 2018. However, instability persists in the government, which has been reshuffled four times in just over a year.

 16 setembre 2020

The Repatriation of Jihadist Foreign Fighters

In the spring of 2019, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces recaptured the territory held by the Islamic State group in Syria. As they did so, they found themselves holding thousands of people who had travelled from around the world to join ISIS

 16 setembre 2020

Algeria in 2020: A Weakened Power Facing a Multidimensional Crisis

Politically weakened, economically failing and socially in turmoil, Algeria has not been spared the COVID 19 pandemic.

 15 setembre 2020

Egypt’s Struggle for Stability in a Volatile Environment

The lack of channels for social demands creates the conditions for sudden explosions of anger. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed some latent contradictions within Egyptian society.

 15 setembre 2020

2020: The Yemenite Impasse

Yemen entered its sixth year of conflict in March 2020. Yemeni confrontations and foreign armed interventions on its soil have caused “the worst humanitarian crisis in the world,” according to the UN.

 15 setembre 2020

Great Expectations: The EU-Africa Partnership against the Backdrop of Covid-19

With Europe caught up in responding to the health and economic crises at home, and Africa facing already devastating economic consequences, the basis of the relationship has shifted.

 14 setembre 2020