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Neighbouring Host-Countries’ Policies for Syrian Refugees: The Cases of Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey
As the stream of refugees continues, so does the pressure to mediate integration between the local and the incoming populations. Host countries differ in their response strategy and policies.
23 janvier 2017
Transformation in Tunisia: The First Five Years
Over the past six years, Tunisia has been testing new avenues of political order. The transition features several elements of hybridity and fragility, remaining a work in progress and producing a significant number of uncertainties.
9 janvier 2017
- Policy Study
The 5+5 Dialogue as a Mechanism of Integration and Regional Cooperation
Cooperation at the regional level faces many future challenges, and that is where the added value of the 5+5 Dialogue resides, provided that complementarities continue to exist with the other cooperation structures.
12 décembre 2016
Geopolitics, Gas and Grand Ambitions: The Outlook for Petroleum Production in the East Mediterranean
News of mass migration, terrorism and civil war in the Mediterranean has overshadowed another potentially game-changing development in the region, namely the consequences of major natural gas discoveries.
16 novembre 2016
The ENP between Ambitions and Delusions: Analysing Europe’s Misconceptions in Supporting Democratisation in Egypt
The Arab uprisings in general and the Egyptian one in particular have triggered questions with regard to the efficiency of the EMP and the ENP. The EU was neither able to anticipate these events nor capable of influencing them.
15 novembre 2016
Counter-Terrorism Policies in Egypt: Effectiveness and Challenges
The dispersal of the Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins in Raba’a square and al-Nahda square in August 2013 unleashed a more complex wave of domestic terrorism in comparison to the waves of terrorism the country encountered decades ago.
19 octobre 2016
Why the EU Needs to Rethink its Neighbourhood Policy
After the Arab uprisings, the European Neighbourhood Policy has been still trapped in neoliberal paradigms and the idea that Europe’s experiences are a lesson for all.
20 septembre 2016
Migrants and Refugees. Impact and Policies. Case Studies of Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Greece
Unsolved conflicts in the Middle East, demographic changes and unfavorable socio-economic situation in the Mediterranean produced migrants and refugees flows on unprecedented scale. How did the host countries reply to that?
7 septembre 2016
- Policy Study
The Arab Transitions in a Changing World. Building Democracies in Light of International Experiences
The outbreak of the Arab uprisings led most of us to think that we were witnessing the fourth or the late third wave of democratization. However, the developments in the southern Mediterranean region contradict the transition paradigm.
9 mai 2016
- Paper
The EU and Conflict Resolution in the Mediterranean Neighbourhood: Tackling New Realities through Old Means?
Since the Arab uprisings, conflict realities in MENA have undergone a substantial change. As the EU’s crisis management policies in the past have been largely perceived as a failure, has the EU reacted in an appropriate way to this change?
16 mars 2016
Mapping out the Scope and Contents of the DCFTAs with Tunisia and Morocco
This paper explores the potential scope and contents of the “Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas” (DCFTAs) that the EU is envisaging with Morocco and Tunisia.
15 mars 2016
- Report
Practices from the Field. Advocating for Women in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
This analysis presents 12 successful practices in advocacy and policy dialogue pertaining to gender equality, developed in the Euro-Mediterranean region, selected through a call for proposal for the civil society organizations.
1 mars 2016