In 2003-04, Syria struggled to cope with the consequences of its stand against the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.
The year 2004 was marked by a major increase in crude oil prices: in December 2003 the international price of a barrel stood at USD 29.29, while by November 2004 it had already reached USD 44.49/barrel.
The second half of 2003 bore witness to numerous upheavals in Morocco, which despite their different characteristics, have influenced the Moroccan social landscape in several respects.
Would inter-parliamentary co-operation be the new challenge that the Barcelona Process would have to take up? What would be the specific role of the inter-parliamentary dimension with respect to the inter-governmental?
We live in a globalising world economy. This is a cliché. It is also true. What does this mean for the countries of North Africa, particularly Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia?
The world economy is increasingly dominated by two phenomena: on the one hand, globalisation, and on the other, regionalisation and integration.
The European Union is by far the major partner for a great number of countries in the southern and eastern Mediterranean, as much from the point of view of trade as passenger traffic.
The Mediterranean is one vector of flow of Euro-Mediterranean and transatlantic exchange. It is an interface between the countries located on its shores, a strategic platform and a significant force to be reckoned with for all the great powers.
Ten years after Dayton and the Serbia and Kosovo operations, the objectives of the international community do not appear to have been achieved, at least not fully.
If intercultural dialogue has in the past been desirable, it is now more than ever a necessity.
Despite the fact that the idea of an economically integrated Arab world has been a part of the region’s political discourse for decades, this region is in many ways one of the least integrated regions in the world.
