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• Sécurité
• MedThink 5+5

Conflict in Libya: A Multidimensional Crisis: State of Play and Paths towards a Sustainable Peace

Libya is a sufficiently relevant issue on which the existing cooperation forged by the Western Mediterranean Forum can be strengthened and deepened without it losing cohesion and inclusiveness among its member states.

• Sécurité
• EuroMeSCo

Militia Institutionalisation and Security Sector Reform in Libya

Putting an end to the ongoing political and military conflict in Libya requires effectively dealing with one of the major security threats: militias and armed groups.

• Sécurité
• EuroMeSCo

Building Partnerships in Challenging Times: The Defence Arrangements of Tunisia

In light of the security challenges of the post-Arab Spring, Tunisia has been seeking for new international partnerships and assistance in order to modernise its defence forces and tackle security threats.

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Post-Conflict Re-Construction in MENA: Previous Experiences and Stakeholder’s Inclusive Involvement in the Future Reconstruction of Libya, Syria and Iraq

The chosen reconstruction process and model will be critical to define the reconfigurations in Syria and Libya and give shape to that new order and power-sharing structures settling down with peace.

• Sécurité
• EuroMeSCo

The European Union and the External Dimension of Security: Supporting Tunisia as a Model in Counter-Terrorism Cooperation

The case of Tunisia is one of the most interesting to study in terms of adaptation of a transitional regime to a new counter-terrorism strategy and of the influence the EU could exert on the development of policies in the security sector.

• Sécurité
• EuroMeSCo

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.

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• Sécurité
• EuroMeSCo

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?

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• Sécurité
• EuroMeSCo

New Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Middle East: Neither so New, Nor so Turkish

Since Turkey strengthened its ties with the Middle East in the 2000s, a region that traditionally enjoyed little weight in Turkish foreign policy, some experts assumed a brand new Turkish foreign policy had emerged.

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• Sécurité

Assessment of the Barcelona Process in the Light of the New International and Regional Situation

Considering the complexity of contemporary Euro-Mediterranean relations, the author analyses the variety of frameworks and instruments used to structure and implement Euro-Mediterranean strategies and policies.

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• Sécurité

Human Security: A New Perspective for Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation

There is a need to reevaluate the EU’s policies towards the region in the light of the changing international context: a multilateralist approach by the EU towards the partner countries is key to an improvement of the security dialogue.

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• Sécurité

Al-Qaida au Sud de la Méditerranée

La matrice pakistano-afghane d’une organisation dirigée par un Saoudien déchu a détourné Al-Qaida de la rive sud de la Méditerranée, vue au mieux comme un espace de transit vers d’autres terres de jihad.