Politics & Cooperation

The Emergence of a New (Multilateral?) Global Order: How Does the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Fit in?

The Emergence of a New (Multilateral?) Global Order: How Does the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Fit in?

The EU should be engaged in the reform of multilateral organizations, decisively help Ukraine to achieve a peace and build a Euro-Mediterranean Economic Integration Area.

 4 October 2023
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Influence of Populism on the European Migration Agenda

The latest success of the Brothers of Italy, and Sweden’s Democrats in the 2022 general elections in Italy and Sweden, is proving that populist parties, investing in public attitudes to immigration, are here to say.

 5 July 2023
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Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East

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.

 3 July 2023

Alliances in the Post-2011 Middle East

May Darwish explains in this Aula Med article if it's possible to make sense of alliance patterns in the post-2011 Middle East.

 20 June 2023

Arab press freedom between external and internal pressures

Daoud Kuttab explains in this Aula Med article why some journalists, especially in the Arab world, refrain from speaking and writing freely.

 20 June 2023

Yemen: fragmentación, mediación y crisis humanitaria

Este artículo AulaMed analiza los diferentes grupos de poder fáctico en Yemen así como su narrativa para abordar el proceso de búsqueda de una eventual paz en el país.

 20 June 2023

New Tools for Environmental Protection in the Mediterranean: Recognition of the Crime of Ecocide

This AulaMed article covers the main arguments in favour of the international criminalisation of certain environmental harms.

 20 June 2023

China’s Foreign Policy towards the Mediterranean

There are three large lenses through which one can view China’s foreign policy and its policy priorities towards Europe, and specifically the Mediterranean, which are the lenses of geopolitics, connectivity and identity.

 19 June 2023

Russian Strategy toward the MENA Region in the Ukraine War Era

The unwillingness of MENA governments to actively support Russia’s war effort or their tendency to pull back from supporting it after their plans for doing so were publicized, shows that there are limits to Moscow’s influence in the MENA region.

 19 June 2023
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MedCat Days 2023

Under the slogan "Transforming the Mediterranean", MedCat Days 2023 provides a space for reflexion, debate, workshops of actors, Euro-Mediterranean initiatives and projects, as well as institutional meetings.

 12 June 2023

Approaching Sectarian Identity Politics and Middle East International Relations in the First Post-Arab Uprisings Decade − A Stocktaking

AulaMed article on how to approach sectarian identity politics in Middle East international relations during the first post-Arab uprisings decade.

 31 May 2023

Présences chinoises en Afrique du Nord Méditerranéenne

En soutenant économiquement et financièrement les pays africains au nord comme au sud du Sahara, la Chine s’est constitué une clientèle de pays tributaires qui lui permettent de construire son image et d’exercer un pouvoir politique certain.

 31 May 2023

Identity and foreign policy in the Islamic Republic: the dynamics of geopolitical expediency

Lecture by Edward Wastnidge, Senior Lecturer in The Open University's Department of Politics and International Studies, moderated by Olivia Glombitza, Lecturer at the UAB

 11 May 2023