Politics & Cooperation

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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Soft Power in the Arab Gulf States During a Time of War

Despite the impacts of the ongoing Iran war, the rising cultural scenes in the Gulf are showing remarkable signs of resilience.

 13 July 2026

India, Pakistán e Irán: vecinos de una misma región

In most analyses, Iran tends to be situated in the Middle East, a geopolitical construct that links the country with its neighbours in the Arab world, alongside Turkey and Israel. (afkar/ideas article in Spanish)

 13 July 2026

Los límites estratégicos de la doctrina militar de Israel

In June, the United States and Iran signed a 14-point memorandum of understanding to end the three-month war, whilst leaving many of the most contentious issues to be resolved in a final agreement to be negotiated within 60 days, which may be extende...

 13 July 2026

A Distant Battlefield: Tangible Costs. The War on Iran’s Toll on the Global South

The war in Iran abruptly stalled economic momentum for countries of the Global South struggling to regain conditions of stability within which prospects for growth might improve.

 13 July 2026

Del Golfo Pérsico al desafío alimentario globalizado

The Persian Gulf crisis reminds us that agriculture and food are a matter of power, stability, sovereignty, and peace. (afkar/ideas is available in Spanish and French)

 13 July 2026

Urbicide in Syria. A Postcolonial Understanding of Civil War

What changes when the everyday environment is brutally torn apart? What politics and identities emerge from ruined spaces? These are some of the questions the author wants to answer. (afkar/ideas; available in both Spanish and French)

 11 July 2026

Un historiador en Gaza

French diplomat and historian Jean-Pierre Filiu offers testimony of an unprecedented destruction, a humanitarian catastrophe that surpasses the pain experienced in the Nakba of 1948. (afkar/ideas is available in Spanish and French)

 11 July 2026

Palestine and the Arab States (1917-2026): A History of Betrayal

Why have Arab countries failed the Palestinians and abandoned them in their time of need? All opinion polls revealed how shocked, saddened and angry the Arab peoples are.

 10 July 2026

The Gaza War in the Regional Context

The Middle East is undergoing a profound transformation – it is being remade. But the process of remaking is complex and hardly reflects the vision of the remakers.

 9 July 2026

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