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Natural Gas Resources in the Eastern Mediterranean: Challenges and Opportunities

The Eastern Mediterranean is on its way to becoming an important gas province. If developed in a timely and successful way, the region’s resources may significantly change the energy picture in the wider Mediterranean region.

 23 August 2012

Security Issues Emerging in the Maghreb and the Sahel after the Arab Spring

The overthrow of the old regimes represents a historic rupture with the long winter of authoritarian stability and a change of paradigm perceptible on various levels.

 23 August 2012

Europe and the Arab (R)evolutions

The Mediterranean has changed. After over 50 years of regime stability in the region, a wave of revolutions and evolutions has shaken a geopolitical and cultural ensemble that seemed immutable.

 22 August 2012

EU Enlargement in South Eastern Europe: Two Recent Success Stories and Their Implications

These are tough times for South Eastern Europe. Prospects for further EU enlargement look distant.

 20 August 2012

Cyprus-Turkey: Growing Tensions

Over the course of the past fifty years, Cyprus has become a byword for an intractable ethnic conflict. Most of the time, the Cyprus Problem is little more than a source of irritation for various international policymakers.

 16 August 2012

Women and the Arab Revolutions: Changes against All Odds

Women dared to defy all taboos and conservative mindsets by taking to the streets to protest and fight against the corruption and tyranny of authoritarian regimes.

 13 August 2012

Policy of Zero Problems with the Neighbours

Cultivating and maintaining good neighbourly relations has always been one of the primary objectives of many governments in Turkey.

 9 August 2012

New Paradigms for the EU-South Mediterranean: Rethinking Conditionality?

It is questionable whether the focus on conditionality is appropriate. It notoriously hard for the EU to deliver on the conditions it sets.

 9 August 2012

Governance in the Southern Mediterranean after the Arab Spring: Drawing Up a New Social Contract

Understanding the origins of the contestation movement in the Arab region and the demands for social justice and accountable governance would better equip Europe to avoid repeating past behaviours.

 8 August 2012

EU-Migration Governance in the Mediterranean Region: The Promise of (a Balanced) Partnership?

A year after the Arab Spring, EU migration policies towards its Southern Mediterranean neighbours are at a crossroads.

 8 August 2012

Explaining Democratic Stagnation in the Western Balkans

Understanding the democratisation process in the successor states of the former Yugoslavia is of key importance for the European integration of these countries and their stabilisation, after the violent conflicts in the 1990s.

 6 August 2012

Syria, Vertigo in the Face of a Radicalised Revolution and an Uncertain Future

Although it follows the path of the Arab revolts preceding it, Syria’s revolution displays unique characteristics due to the country’s social composition.

 27 July 2012