Throughout 2011, social media usage continued to grow significantly across the Arab world, coupled with major shifts in usage trends.
"Mobility and dialogue, yes, but with what aim?" is a burning question that calls for some political observation.
The Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPCs) have entered an economic crisis for which they have no direct responsibility whatsoever, considering their weak engagement on international capital markets.
Who would have foreseen such agitation? Who dared hope that the Tunisian people would be capable of overturning a plundering police regime whose stability and strength was extolled in Europe and elsewhere?
After having been a strategic cornerstone of international relations for several centuries, the Mediterranean lost its importance in favour of the Atlantic, followed later by the Pacific.
Too great a focus on the new actors to the political scene, whether Islamists or the Facebook generation, risks overlooking the role of the hidden, but doubtlessly active, losers of the ‘Arab Spring’.
With an increase of 163% in the number of passengers, the European cruise industry has registered significant growth in the last 10 years and emerged virtually unscathed from the 2008-2009 economic crisis.
In the last decade both economic and political relations between Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states and Arab Mediterranean countries have intensified.
The presence of the Big Four in the Mediterranean Region is growing and diversifying. First of all we must emphasize to what point the intervention of the BRIC countries in the region affects the Northern Mediterranean.
