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Opportunities and Challenges for Conflict Resolution and Border Delimitation in the Eastern Mediterranean post Israel-Lebanon Agreement

Energy findings highlighted bilateral and multilateral relations between and among the East Med littoral states. Importantly, natural resources enabled collaboration between states and led to a number of bilateral agreements, including maritime delim...

 9 September 2023

Chinese Military Influence in the Mediterranean

While in the seas and oceans adjacent to China hard power is increasingly visible, and this after years of soft power measures, in the Mediterranean we are still in the soft power phase in terms of Beijing’s projection.

 4 September 2023

Green Hydrogen Partnerships between the EU and the Southern Mediterranean: Challenges and Opportunities for Coherent and Just Energy Transitions

The Russian gas supply disruption took its toll on the EU, which started to work quickly on securing other sources of energy. The EU launched the REPowerEU Plan in May 2022 while working in tandem on accelerating decarbonization to meet its aim of be...

 4 September 2023

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Arab and Mediterranean States: Impact and Reactions

Arab and Southern Mediterranean countries deplore the Russian invasion of Ukraine but do not align themselves with the “bellicose escalation” of the protagonists.

 4 September 2023

Algeria: Hiding Continuity and Immobilism behind the Mask of the “New Algeria”

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has established a narrative about a "new Algeria". Yet, it barely conceals the challenges the country faces to renew its political, economic and even diplomatic plans.

 4 September 2023

Prospects of Post-conflict Reconstruction in Libya

Since the collapse of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya has been floundering through a transition that does not seem to have an end. Several years of conflict have had a dramatic impact on Libya’s economy and shattered the country’s in...

 4 September 2023

Syria and the Arab League: A Reconciliation Foretold

On 7 May 2023, a summit of foreign ministers in Cairo approved Syria’s readmission to the Arab League. This despite the fact that the Syrian regime has committed multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity.

 4 September 2023

China in North Africa. From Revolutionary Politics to the New Silk Road

Beijing has been engaged in a comprehensive economic and diplomatic offensive that is challenging European dominance in North Africa. China’s presence in North Africa is driven by its desire to expand its global market access while securing key nat...

 4 September 2023

The Failure of European Policy on Africa and Migratory Movements

Since 1995, the EU struggles to decide how to address African mobility. This dilemma and other factors has contributed to an increased focus on the external aspects of the EU’s migration policy and cooperation with partner countries.

 4 September 2023

Digitalization for the Green Transition in the Mediterranean

The European Union has created a dual green and digital transition agenda that aims to integrate its hitherto independent policy sectors. The fact that this new strategy has a geopolitical component and is both inward and forward looking is notable....

 4 September 2023

Conditionality, Economic Restructuring and Intensified Repression: A Global Approach

More than one decade after the so-called Arab Spring, the social and economic concerns motivating the uprisings are yet to be addressed meaningfully by the respective countries' governments.

 4 September 2023

Escaping the MENA Debt Crisis

Much has been written about the weaknesses of the MENA economies: their low level of innovation and labour productivity, the lack of dynamism and informality of their private sector, and the decaying capacity of their states and decline in the qualit...

 4 September 2023