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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Between Myth and Fright. The Mediterranean as Conflict

At a time when the migration crisis in the Mediterranean is only getting worse, violence and attacks are multiplying and the rise in xenophobia in European countries is seriously threatening their social coexistence, projects such as the exhibition â...

 12 March 2015

Democracy, Rights and Social Movements. The Case of Israel and The Occupied Territories

Mansbach-Kleinfeld studies the effects and dilemmas of the resistance actions promoted by the Israeli political movements in the face of the violations of human rights of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.

 11 March 2015

Monarquía y gestión securitaria del islam

Marruecos tiene un programa de reforma para fomentar las libertades, con una fuerte voluntad de control en materia de seguridad impuesta por la creciente influencia de los yihadistas.

 21 December 2014

Túnez en clave política de riesgo y oportunidad

Los comicios representan el tablero de juego donde se dilucida la capacidad del nuevo sistema político constitucional para afrontar desafíos en el corto plazo.

 21 December 2014

Euromed Survey: Governance Issues

Governance issues have deteriorated in the years since the Arab Spring. The rule of law has suffered setbacks on two accounts: the judiciary has been politicised and it is unable to translate its rulings into action.

 24 November 2014

The Three Paradoxes of the Arab Spring

The hopes of a progressive wave of democratization have ended with nostalgia for stability and the powerful role of the state and a fear of the retrograde forces of political Islam.

 24 November 2014
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Arab Transitions in Comparative Perspective

This conference discusses the conditions that lay behind the success of regime change and democratization processes.

 17 November 2014

Oppositions and Transitions in the Arab World Post 2011

The workshop, organized by the Center for Social Science Studies and Research in cooperation with EuroMeSCo, aims to fill this gap. The event examines the state of the opposition in the context of the new Arab political systems.

 11 November 2014

Winning to Lose: The State´s Unsustainable Counterrevolutionary Comeback in Egypt

The 2011 revolution brought the opportunity to challenge the state´s model of governance but three years later many argue that the Egyptian state has succeeded to absorb the revolutionary shocks and has ensured a successful comeback.

 18 September 2014

Western Balkans: Does the Past Determine the Future? Pictures of South Slav Reality

The Balkan region is still deeply marked by the stereotypes created by the Western vision as well as by the past of a people in which long periods of peace have been the exception.

 15 September 2014

Printemps arabe : bilan mitigé

Quelle que soit l’évolution des pays arabes, un constat s’impose : les peuples arabes n’ont plus peur des dictateurs et sont décidés à se battre pour leur dignité.

 15 September 2014

The Inverse Trajectories of the Salafists in Tunisia and Egypt

The post-revolutionary transitions in Tunisia and Egypt have been marked by the emergence of Salafist movements whose real strength few observers have truly comprehended.

 11 September 2014