Policy Studies /
Papers / Reports
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Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon: Experience from a Danish-Lebanese Partnership
Local community stakeholders including municipalities are critical to the implementation of national PVE strategies and action plans. Yet how does a PVE model travel from one context to another ?
23 May 2018
- Policy Study
The Sahel: Europe´s African Borders
Over the last decade, the EU’s engagement in the Sahel region has dramatically increased. Despite all the efforts, the Sahel remains a quagmire and continues to be a source of high instability for the Maghreb and by extension for Europe.
2 April 2018
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The Transformation of Violent Extremist Groups: New Threats and Challenges
Since the 1970s , Jihadist violence has undergone various transformations. Understanding those dynamics is key to develop efficient approaches to tackle new forms of violent extremism that would go beyond the security focus.
21 March 2018
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The Geopolitics of Violent Extremism. The Case of Sinai
After the fall of Mubarak in 2011, the Sinai peninsula has experienced a deep political and securitarian crisis, posing a serious threat to the security of the MENA region and an important testing-ground for the regional balance of power.
21 February 2018
- Policy Study
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.
16 October 2017
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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.
15 June 2017
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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.
10 May 2017
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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.
11 April 2017
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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.
4 April 2017
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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 October 2016
- Policy Study
Terrorist Threat in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
The plethora of reasons for Jihadist groups’ local and global appeal corroborate the thesis that Islamic radicalism is becoming a general, global, radical anti-systemic movement.
11 April 2016
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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 March 2016