Briefs / Focus / Spot Ons
- Policy Brief
Egypt’s Foreign Policy: Post-Western and Pan-Islamic
While the EU and the US are preoccupied with Egypt’s attitude towards them, Israel and Iran, other countries are entering the competition for privileged relations with the transforming Egypt. The new Egyptian foreign policy will not favour the Wes...
8 February 2012
- Policy Brief
The Arab Uprisings and the New Geopolitics of the Middle East
The Arab uprisings are not only transforming the political structures of Arab states and societies. The geopolitics of the region is also undergoing profound change, not seen since the 1967 war.
6 February 2012
- Policy Brief
EU Democracy Promotion in a Post-Arab Spring Agenda: Cautiously Does It…
Without entirely discarding the institutional foundations of previous policy mechanisms, the EU is helping to forge a new policy matrix. Steps taken so far have been cautious, and rightly so.
21 September 2011
- Policy Brief
La Communauté européenne mise à l’épreuve du “printemps arabe”. Crise ou renouveau du multilatéralisme européen?
Le « printemps arabe » est vieux maintenant d’une dizaine de mois. La question se pose toujours de savoir si l’Europe a cessé d’être négligente sur la question des réformes politiques chez les voisins du sud.
15 September 2011
- Policy Brief
The Review of the European Neighbourhood Policy: How to Make it Work for the Arab Mediterranean?
While the EU has proved to be a committed and reliable donor, its cooperation policies have done little in enhancing socioeconomic development prospects in the Southern Mediterranean.
29 July 2011
- Policy Brief
Vers un nouveau paradigme de la politique européenne dans le monde arabe ? Une politique européenne de voisinage réformée (PEV) et l´Union pour la Méditerranée (UPM)
Non seulement les sociétés du monde arabe vivent des moments historiques de leur histoire contemporaine mais, en outre, les relations internationales se trouvent à un point de césure.
28 June 2011
- Policy Brief
The European Union and the Arab Spring: A (Missed?) Opportunity to Revamp the European Neighbourhood Policy
When the dust of the Arab revolts settles, how should EU policy towards the southern Mediterranean be reframed? The lion’s share of the thinking around this question has been devoted to the European Neighbourhood Policy.
17 June 2011
- Policy Brief
Reconfiguring Euro-Med Regional Cooperation
Any attempt to reconfigure the Euro-Med framework for regional cooperation needs to build on the emerging geopolitical context of the broader Middle East following the Arab revolutions.
26 May 2011
- Focus
Europe Should Adjust Its Own Policies to Support the Demands of the Arab Revolutions
The kind of stability the EU has supported in the 2000s is too fragile to be acceptable. It is only a way to put off problems, boost difficulties and prevent them from being solved.
3 March 2011
- Focus
Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation: From the Spanish to Hungarian Presidency
With the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the role of the rotating presidency has been limited, affecting the political impact in the field of external policies that the Prime Minister of the country holding the Presidency used to exert.
19 January 2011
- Focus
The Lisbon Treaty and Euro-Mediterranean Relations
The Lisbon Treaty not only impacts differently on different EU policies and policy instruments, but it is likely to have a different effect in the short term and long term.
16 November 2010
- Focus
Egypt-EU Relationship: Where Is Democracy?
One of the major shortcomings of the EU discourse on democracy promotion is the lack of any identification of priorities when it comes to promoting political reform in Egypt
15 June 2010