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The Economic Value of Water and its Implications in the Mediterranean Basin

The application of economic concepts to the management and use of water (a non-substitutable good in general terms) leads us to the dilemma of determining the market price.

 7 juny 2008

China in North Africa

Over the last ten years, the economic presence of the People’s Republic of China in Africa has notably increased. African countries have become major suppliers of raw materials for Chinese energy and mining industries.

 4 juny 2008

Circular Migrations in the Euro-Mediterranean Space or when Migrant Workers Contribute to Prosperity without Reaping the Fruits of Integration?

From the economic and demographic viewpoint many factors militate in favour of a policy of support for economic migration but security concerns dominate the European agenda.

 20 maig 2008

Groundwater Resources in the Mediterranean Region: Importance, Uses and Sharing

The complex and very compartmentalised geological structure of the Mediterranean Basin has not allowed the formation of very extensive aquifer systems, with the exception of the South-East African Platform.

 12 maig 2008

The Hydropolitics of the Mediterranean

For some years now the question of water in the world and around the Mediterranean has been emerging as one of the most urgent.

 12 maig 2008

Iran, a Geopolitical Player in the Middle East

Aware as it is of its potential, Iran is the most traditional Middle Eastern state and the strongest defender of “regionalism”.

 9 maig 2008

French Initiative in the Mediterranean Region: Back to Square One?

Before it was emptied of a large part of its substance by inter-European negotiations during the first quarter of 2008, the French Mediterranean Union project disrupted routine European-Mediterranean relations throughout 2007.

 9 maig 2008

Shared Basin Management (Conflict versus Cooperation). A Case Study: the Nile Basin

In the face of population growth, rampant urbanisation, industrialisation and environmental degradation, shared basin management has proved to be synonymous to conflict management.

 7 maig 2008

Population, Human Development and Human Security in Arab Mediterranean Countries

Achieving higher levels of human development would contribute to an easing of domestic and regional tensions.

 7 maig 2008

Arms Race in the Mediterranean

The Middle East has repeatedly had the dubious distinction of being the region with the world’s largest arms imports.

 29 abril 2008

Shared Basin Management (Disputes Vs Cooperation). A Case Study: Israel-Palestine

Water issues in the Middle East are often portrayed as an international problem with opposing states competing for resources that are becoming inexorably scarcer. Such a perception prevents us from understanding the multi-scalar interactions .

 21 abril 2008

Towards an Euro-Mediterranean Water Strategy?

Political leaders have always been aware, and increasingly so, of the importance of water in the Euro-Mediterranean context and the need to tackle it at the regional level, albeit with ups and downs.

 18 març 2008