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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Party Systems in Disarray, and the Emergence and Consolidation of New Actors in Southern Europe

At the start of 2014, as the run-up to the May European Parliament elections started to gain speed, an unprecedented nervousness prevailed amongst EU political elites.

 10 August 2015

The State of the Arab State: Stocktaking and Reorientation

As an alienated, and alienating, besieged structure, the Arab State is in crisis. This crisis is not, however, Lowi’s “fiscal crisis,” but a deep and chronic one.

 27 July 2015

Building a Democratic State: The Case of Tunisia

The long Tunisian transition has contributed to clarifying the nature of the revolutionary phenomenon that has gripped the country since December 2010.

 23 July 2015

The Role of Non-State Actors in Arab Countries after the Arab Uprisings

The category of non-state actors embraces a diversity of organisations and movements. It comprehends civil society and the flourishing non-governmental sector that has assumed great importance in the Arab world since the end of the Cold War.

 22 July 2015

The Free Fall of the Libyan State

After the international intervention in 2011, Libya has hardly made it to the front pages of the European media. It came back on the radar in the winter and spring of 2015 because of the rise of the Islamic State and the migration crisis.

 21 July 2015
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Islam and Democracy: The Construction of a New Mediterranean

The CatDem Foundation invites Senén Florensa, Executive President of the IEMed, to participate in this seminar which aims to collect different measures to make Islam compatible with democracy.

 8 July 2015

The Responsibility to Protect and the Arab Spring: What is the Role of Parliamentary Diplomacy?

This presentation deals with the role that parliamentary diplomacy can play in promoting R2P.

 21 May 2015

The Mediterraneans: Opposite Views

The current migration policy of the Mediterranean area has for years experienced an unsustainable situation, which has made the Mediterranean Sea a sea of bodies of those who have fled their countries in an attempt to reach the other shore.

 12 May 2015

The Mediterraneans: Opposite Views

The current migration policy of the Mediterranean area has for years experienced an unsustainable situation, which has made the Mediterranean Sea a sea of bodies of those who have fled their countries in an attempt to reach the other shore.

 12 May 2015

La révolution tunisienne: une révolution 2.0 ?

Apres s´être assuré de la fuite de Ben Ali, le monde entier a commencé à parler d´une « révolution Internet » ou d´une « révolution 2.0 ». Mais quelle est la vérité dans cette affirmation ?

 7 May 2015

Legal Permeability in Cultural Diversity: New Cases and Some Background Reflections

The presentation analyzes cases related to family conflicts that are generated as a result of polygynous marriages and the so-called "forced marriages", where the Islamic religious factor is an added element to the nationality of the spouses.

 15 April 2015

The Amazons, the Contribution of a Greek Myth to the Patriarchal Imaginary

Among the numerous myths we find in the Mediterranean area and that have given the West many elements present in its mentality and imaginary is that of the Amazons.

 12 April 2015