Governance & Political Reform

Egypt’s Struggle for Stability in a Volatile Environment

Egypt’s Struggle for Stability in a Volatile Environment

The lack of channels for social demands creates the conditions for sudden explosions of anger. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed some latent contradictions within Egyptian society.

 15 September 2020
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Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, líder del Frente de Salvación Nacional de Túnez

Entrevista de afkar/ideas a Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, líder de la principal plataforma opositora en Túnez, que aboga por la unión de los partidos para hacer de contrapeso y luchar por conservar los logros democráticos.

 22 November 2022

Nationalism, Islam and Democracy in Turkey

This article tries to dissect the relationship between Islam, nationalism, and democracy in twenty-first-century Turkey.

 3 November 2022

Implications of the Conversion of Hagia Sophia into a Mosque, Inside and Outside Turkey

The Hagia Sophia’s conversion can also be seen as marking Turkey’s reemergence in regional politics.

 4 October 2022

Migration as a “Threat”

The instrumentalization of migration at the European Union’s external borders is starting to become commonplace.

 4 October 2022

Climate Migration in the Eye of the Storm: A Future Challenge for the Mediterranean Region

The fact that climate change is not the main direct driver of cross-border and intra-regional migration today, does not imply that climate-related environmental stressors will not continue to increase over the next few years.

 4 October 2022

The Fluidity of Extremism: The Reshaping of Radicalization in MENA and the Balkans

Drawing from the study of seven pre-identified drivers, CONNEKT reveals the dominant role of state security actors and the disconnect between them and civil society actors dealing with mostly grassroots preventive strategies.

 4 October 2022

The Role of Social Media in the Fight for Women’s Rights

Despite all the hatred and disinformation, digital activism has served as the tool to not only spread a message, anger and discomfort, but also to empower and gather a powerful revolutionary movement, leading many women in the MENA region to take to...

 4 October 2022

Well-Being Societies in the Arab Region. Fighting All Kinds of Inequalities

This article analyses the different kinds of inequalities affecting the arab region, its evolution in time and proposes a way forward.

 4 October 2022

Well-Being, Social Policies and Development in the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) – State of Play and Challenges for Improvement

This essay provides a critical overview of social policies in MENA and what is known about the conceptualization of well-being there.

 4 October 2022

The French Presidential Election 2022: Irreconcilable Clash between World Views and Mediterranean Perspectives?

This article provides an analysis of the foreign policy visions of the candidates for the 2022 French presidential election, which according to the author provide a good idea of their respective ideological positions.

 28 September 2022

Saudi Reforms: Change for Survival or for Progress?

The author analyses how the change conceived by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia is provoking popular enthusiasm, especially among young people, but raises a number of issues regarding his despotic practices.

 22 September 2022

Lebanon’s Catastrophic Warlord Regime and the Tragedy of a Complicit State

The author provides a short historical review and an empirical framework to the simple question of what happened to Lebanon and what some of the prospects for its future are.

 22 September 2022