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Por una nueva estrategia regional en el Golfo

Por una nueva estrategia regional en el Golfo

El papel de Estados Unidos en la crisis que se vive entre los países del Golfo e Irán hacen necesario un cambio de estrategia en lo que a las sanciones sobre el país persa concierna.

 27 August 2021
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The New Kurdish Presence

Although they have largely been turkified over time, Anatolian Kurds still wish to be recognized within their own particular identity.

 26 July 2016

The Inflexibility of Turkey’s Policy in Syria

Turkey’s foreign policy has been in a significant predicament in recent years and the Syrian crisis has been the main source of it.

 25 July 2016

Is International Diplomacy Overcoming the Deadlock in Libya? Future Scenarios

In the first months of 2016, US, Italian, French and British spokespersons expressed a desire to intervene in Libya. The two main reasons for this urgency include the lack of a political agreement among Libyans and a fear of growing terrorist activit...

 22 July 2016

Sunnis, Shiites: The Second Major Fitna

Nowadays the Middle East is witnessing major tensions between Sunnis and Shiites. The confrontation underway has led to a globalisation of the conflict between the two main branches of Islam on the regional scale.

 19 July 2016

President Obama and the Middle East: a Mixed Legacy

As the Obama Administration draws to a close, a fierce debate over the President’s legacy in the Middle East has begun.

 13 July 2016

The Russian Approach to Middle East Conflicts and the Arab World

While Moscow may still help the Assad regime retain the territory it now controls, Putin is clearly not going to expend Russian resources in helping Damascus achieve its more ambitious goal of regaining control over all of Syria.

 11 July 2016

Crisis, Identity and Raison d’Être of the European Union

The multiple crises, or multi-crisis, affecting the EU today are causing cracks in the set of values that supposedly make up its identity. Of these different crises, the refugee crisis will be the most decisive for the EU’s future.

 5 July 2016

Is the European Union Standing the Mediterranean Test? The Lack of a European Foreign and Security Policy in the Face of the Current Turmoil

While the Mediterranean area was the subject of a major EU foreign policy initiative in 1995, it has gradually become the epicentre of the most dramatic challenges confronting the EU.

 4 July 2016

Recognising Palestine, Unrecognising Settlements

Achieving a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a long-standing EU policy objective. Of all the territorial disputes outside Europe, this conflict that has most preoccupied European decisions-makers.

 13 June 2016

III Barcelona-Casablanca Forum

As part of the third edition of the Barcelona-Casablanca Forum, the main economic and institutional leaders of the delegations representing these two cities hold a plenary session which highlights their complementarities, even their complicity.

 30 May 2016

The 5+5 Dialogue as a Mechanism of Integration and Regional Cooperation

The aim of the network, which is promoted and hosted by the IEMed as a secretariat, is to encourage dialogue and research on how to promote regional integration and cooperation in the western Mediterranean.

 23 May 2016

To Recognize Palestine, Not Recognizing Israeli Settlements?

While recognition may send a strong message to an increasingly annexationist Israel and the harassed Palestinian leadership, these efforts are insufficient to make progress on the ground for Palestinian sovereignty.

 18 May 2016