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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Nationalism, Islam and democracy

Conference by Umut Özkirimli, senior research fellow at IBEI and associate senior researcher at CIDOB. Moderated by by Ana Ballesteros Peiró, Phd in Arab and Islamic Studies and associate senior researcher at CIDOB.

 24 March 2022
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Tunisia: democracy or authoritarianism?

Debate about Tunisia with two of the collaborators of afkar/ideas magazine.

 21 February 2022

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar “Aula Mediterrània” 2021

Sixth research seminar takes place, which addresses a wide range of issues affecting the Mediterranean region, bringing together experts and the latest research on various topics related to the Euro-Mediterranean region.

 10 November 2021

Setting the New Agenda for the New Mediterranean in Motion

The EuroMeSCo Annual Conference 2021 intends to actively contribute to the reflection over rolling out the new agenda for the Mediterranean, a few weeks after the release of the EU Joint Communication.

 15 April 2021

The Way Ahead for the Middle East and North Africa

Florence Gaub discusses about the future in the Middle East and North Africa, exposing that while Arab Springs have not improved the situation in the region there are a lot of opportunities.

 14 April 2021

The MENA-OECD Initiative on Governance and Competitiveness

The session addresses the experience of multilateral collaboration between economies with different levels of development, paying special attention to the structural factors of the MENA region and the conditions for its transformation.

 4 February 2021
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Barcelona +25: Cities in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Barcelona Process, CIDOB and its partners launch a series of dialogues on how cities can be given a greater role in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.

 26 November 2020

1979 – 2019: 40 Years of War in the Middle East

Protests in the streets of the Arab world in 2011 and those taking place today in some countries in the region, such as Algeria or Lebanon, have a specific weight, different than protests with similar claims elsewhere.

 5 March 2020

Hezbollah and the Lebanese Popular Movement, Reactions and Challenges

The origins of the protests in Lebanon can be summed up in two words: neoliberalism and sectarianism. The Hezbollah party has been accusing the protest movement of being controlled by foreign interests.

 13 February 2020

Implications of the International Intellectual Property Regime for the North African Countries

Walid Abdelnasser, director of the Office for Arab Countries of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), reviews the historical development of the intellectual property system in the Maghreb and the Middle East.

 6 February 2020

Political Islam: Fractures, Evolution and Dilemmas

The situation of political Islam in the Arab world has experienced fast and unprecedented reversals over the past few years. The Islamists, unsurprisingly, after the uprisings, came to power by the polls in several countries.

 23 January 2020

The Revolutionary Process in the Middle East And North Africa

The term "Arab Spring" began to be used in early 2011, but making use of that term to label what would end up happening from that year on in the Middle East and North Africa can be misleading.

 9 May 2019