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New Pact for the Mediterranean. The Future of Euro-Mediterranean Relations on the 30th Anniversary of the Barcelona Process

New Pact for the Mediterranean. The Future of Euro-Mediterranean Relations on the 30th Anniversary of the Barcelona Process

The success of the New Pact will depend on its capacity to turn consultation into genuine partnership, to balance ambition with realism and to show it has learned from past experience.

 25 July 2025
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Libya’s Political Transition Put to the Test by Power-Sharing: Maintaining the Balance in the Name of Stability

Power-sharing arrangements in Libya tend less to pave the way for political transformation than to reactivate arrangements among elites aimed at preserving their positions

 1 July 2026

From Crisis Governance to Civic Renewal: Can Lebanon Reinvent Its Political System?

Is Lebanon at the dawn of a genuine opening with the coincidence of a new reformist executive, a weakened Hezbollah and a state apparatus with access to international financing?

 1 July 2026

Leftist Parties’ Trajectories in the Middle East and North Africa

AulaMed article by Francesco Cavatorta, speaker of the Aula Mediterrània 2025-26 lecture series.

 30 June 2026

Beyond Ukraine and Moldova, Armenia’s Progress towards EU Membership

Power-sharing arrangements in Libya tend less to pave the way for political transformation than to reactivate arrangements among elites aimed at preserving their positions

 30 June 2026

Great Power Competition from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf

The Middle East wars of the past three years were driven by local disputes but they steadily led the US to play a central role and forced Russian and China to adapt.

 29 June 2026
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Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East 2026

New edition of the Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, a joint initiative of IBEI and Blanquerna University with the collaboration of the IEMed.

 29 June 2026
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The Islamic Republic of Iran in Transition: Toward a Security State. How War Accelerated the Normalization of a Revolutionary State

The war has drastically accelerated the erosion of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s (IRI) revolutionary identity as the system is currently completing its transformation into a security state.

 15 June 2026

Forced Neutrality and Structural Vulnerability: Egypt in the Face of Regional Reconfiguration after the War against Iran

Egypt has not officially entered the conflict in Iran, but it has paid the price with soaring inflation and a sharp rise in fuel and electricity prices.

 9 June 2026

The Trial of Milorad Dodik and Its Consequences on the Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The case of the chief ethnic Serb political party in BiH and its legal political stakes reflect the possibilities and limits of political change in Dayton-era BiH.

 9 June 2026

The Greening of the EU Economy and Its Implications for the Southern Mediterranean

The accelerating green transition in the EU is creating a growing demand for renewable energies and transport costs, in particular, strongly favour the Maghreb countries.

 9 June 2026

The Weakening of the Axis of Resistance

The reconfiguration of the Axis of Resistance points to a certain degree of fragmentation, in which the strength and activity of its members no longer depend on centralized coordination by Tehran.

 9 June 2026

Beyond Irregular Migration: The Changing Landscape of Maghreb Migration and the Challenges of a Renewed Euro-Mediterranean Governance Framework

The actual pattern of migration from the Maghreb today appears to be broader, more stratified and more complex.

 9 June 2026