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Climate Migration in the Eye of the Storm: A Future Challenge for the Mediterranean Region

The fact that climate change is not the main direct driver of cross-border and intra-regional migration today, does not imply that climate-related environmental stressors will not continue to increase over the next few years.

 4 October 2022

Migration as a “Threat”

The instrumentalization of migration at the European Union’s external borders is starting to become commonplace.

 4 October 2022

Implications of the Conversion of Hagia Sophia into a Mosque, Inside and Outside Turkey

The Hagia Sophia’s conversion can also be seen as marking Turkey’s reemergence in regional politics.

 4 October 2022

The French Presidential Election 2022: Irreconcilable Clash between World Views and Mediterranean Perspectives?

This article provides an analysis of the foreign policy visions of the candidates for the 2022 French presidential election, which according to the author provide a good idea of their respective ideological positions.

 28 September 2022

How the Situation in Sudan Is Affecting the MENA Region

This article shows how Sudan has impacted MENA in selected fields: economic, historical, nation-state and territorial disintegration, political culture, radical Islam and terrorism and youth-led social movements.

 28 September 2022

Lebanon’s Catastrophic Warlord Regime and the Tragedy of a Complicit State

The author provides a short historical review and an empirical framework to the simple question of what happened to Lebanon and what some of the prospects for its future are.

 22 September 2022

Mauritania: Domestic Politics and Regional Tensions (Maghreb / Sahel)

The author analyses the domestic and regional politics of Mauritania under the presidency of Mohamed Ould Ghazouani.

 22 September 2022

Saudi Reforms: Change for Survival or for Progress?

The author analyses how the change conceived by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia is provoking popular enthusiasm, especially among young people, but raises a number of issues regarding his despotic practices.

 22 September 2022

Achieving Healthy Lives in the MENA Region: Towards Strong and Equitable Health Systems

The author analyses how the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ukraine war and the global climate crisis have impacted the goal of achieving healthy lives in the MENA Region.

 22 September 2022

Turkey at the Centre of the Mediterranean Geopolitical Chessboard

The return of Turkey to the Mediterranean does not only illustrate a form of historical nostalgia: it confirms above all the full entry of the Turks into a globalization that they are tailoring to their objectives.

 13 September 2022

Iran’s Influence on Countries in the MENA Region

Iran is not typified as a country that leads invasions, but is rather an actor that takes advantage of the conditions of invaded countries. The cases of Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon provide evidence for this argument, as Iran’s presence is manife...

 13 September 2022

Euro-Mediterranean Regional Cooperation and Integration: The Urgent Need for an Enhanced Agenda

How and to what extent will the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) adopted in 2021 support regional integration and cooperation?

 13 September 2022