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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Risks and Opportunities of the Post-Pandemic Recovery in the Mediterranean Region

Across the world, the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed and aggravated several pre-existing vulnerabilities. The situation is even worse in the southern and eastern Mediterranean (SEM) countries, whose pre-existing conditions have been severely aggravate...

 2 November 2021

Post-corona Public Debt: A Challenge for Fiscal and Social Policies in the Euro Area

The coronavirus pandemic came as a huge shock to European economies. In many countries, public life and economic activity were almost completely shut down. Businesses had to close and curfews were imposed. The Member States of the euro area had no ch...

 2 November 2021

The Mediterranean Region: A Hotspot of Inequalities in the Aftermath of COVID-19

The impact of COVID-19 on multifaceted inequality in the Mediterranean is neither consistent nor linear. The region has witnessed declines in several forms of inequality and surges in several others. Yet, the overall impact in terms of the number and...

 2 November 2021

Social Unrest, Crises Aggravated by the Pandemic and Pending Revolutions in Arab Countries

The human development levels of most Arab countries that have 435 million inhabitants are considerably below their countries' potential, taking into account their material and human resources, their geographical position and their connections to the...

 2 November 2021

Alliances with Violent Non-State Actors in Middle East Conflicts: Between Theory and Practice

This article focuses on the role of violent non-state actors in Middle East politics within the context of alliances and from a theoretical and empirical point of view. It describes how states and VNSA use each other to increase their leverage in a g...

 2 November 2021

EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. Implementation, Impact and Consequences in the Euro-Mediterranean Context

In September 2020, the EU Commission tried again on the issue of immigration and asylum, publishing a new package of proposals on asylum and (non-EU) migration. This consisted of proposals for legislation, some “soft law,” attempts to relaunch...

 2 November 2021

Youth, Political Activism and Resilience in Tunisia

Resilience unfolds in relation to the challenges posed by threats, which, in the case of Tunisia in transition, are of three types: the security threat linked to terrorism, the political threat caused by endemic corruption, and the socio-economic thr...

 2 November 2021

Covid-19 and Soaring Unemployment in the Mediterranean

As elsewhere in the world, Covid-19 has disrupted the markets of Mediterranean economies. Indeed, the imposition of restrictions, at the local level as well as for relations with the outside world, has had impacts, although different from one country...

 2 November 2021

Russia in the Mediterranean and the Middle East

Russia’s ongoing military involvement in Syria since 2015 and that of Russian private military forces in Libya since 2018 are seen quite differently. While many governments do not welcome it, in neither Syria nor Libya is Russia’s military presen...

 29 October 2021

Eastern Mediterranean Energy and Regional Cooperation: 2021 Outlook

After a year of heightened geopolitical tension in the eastern Mediterranean during 2020, the first six months of 2021 have witnessed a diplomatic momentum toward a regionwide détente.

 29 October 2021

China’s Interests in the Middle East and North Africa

The Middle East and North Africa is a “penetrated region,” where China is a relative latecomer, arriving at a time when the end of the Cold War has been followed by the complex transition to a post-American regional order.

 29 October 2021

The Narrow Path forward between the European Union and Turkey

Since late 2019, relations between the European Union and Turkey have gone through a rough patch and have only marginally improved in early 2021.

 29 October 2021