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Mediterranean Metamorphosis

As an epilogue of the A Sea of Words 2025 series, we have invited Karima Ziali to take up some of the questions launched on the occasion of the contest and carry them beyond fiction.

 13 October 2026

Aligning or fragmenting? The future of Euro-Mediterranean migration governance under the EU Pact(s)

By integrating insights from migration policy analysis, the analysis assesses whether the current Pact(s) architecture fosters coherent, sustainable, and mutually beneficial governance in the Euro-Mediterranean region.

 22 September 2026

New frontiers in maritime security: from competition to cooperation

This Policy Study argues that lasting maritime security depends less on expanding naval power than on deeper cooperation, shared information and institutional trust.

 22 September 2026

Governing in a Vacuum: Centralization and Fragility in Contemporary Tunisia

The government has successfully secured a monopoly on power, but it has created a deeply brittle façade, very much similar to the one Ben Ali established after 1987.

 7 September 2026

The Iran War, the Middle East and the Reshaping of the International and Regional Order

A multipolar system is emerging, with a greater presence of the major powers, regional middle powers and large groupings seeking to impose their own narrative.

 7 September 2026

The Mediterranean, at the Heart of Europe

The Mediterranean must not merely be a region that Europe contemplates from its shores, but one of the places from which Europe thinks, acts and builds its future.

 7 September 2026

Israel’s Ideological Drift: An Avoidable Real-Life Experiment in Mass Radicalization

The enormous gap between common wisdom and historical fact betrays the universality of human nature. Its long-term effect has been to tolerate the ideological drift towards irrational and dehumanizing extremism.

 3 September 2026

Architecture and Governance of the EU Pact for the Mediterranean and Its Implementation Since October 2025: A Critical Assessment

Whether the Pact escapes the implementation gap will depend less on its architectural design than on the political will to fund it adequately, to hold it accountable through credible democratic oversight and to sustain coherent engagement.

 2 September 2026

The Mediterranean between Convergence and Polarization: Uneven Development in an Age of Geoeconomic Transition

This paper argues that the Mediterranean has progressively evolved towards a differentiated and asymmetric geoeconomic system rather than towards a homogeneous space of convergence.

 2 September 2026

From Energy Security to Strategic Autonomy: The Mediterranean in EU Energy Policy

The geopolitical shift in European energy policy reveals that the process of decoupling from Russia has given rise to a series of proposals in which the Mediterranean emerges as an energy nearshoring hub.

 2 September 2026