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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Science Diplomacy in the Mediterranean: Building Trust Through Science and Knowledge

This AulaMed paper outlines the potential of science and innovation to strengthen diplomatic relations and promote socioeconomic development.

 13 July 2023

Identities and Foreign Policy in the Islamic Republic: the Dynamics of Geopolitical Expediency

This AulaMed paper outlines Iran identity markers which are rooted in key domestic concerns that are intrinsic to the Islamic Republic’s worldview.

 13 July 2023

Wartime Opportunities: The Sway of Russian Disinformation on the MENA Region

When exploring the tone of MENA region online discourses on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, “anti-Western” and “anti-democratic” perceptions and (distorted) narratives are striking.

 11 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

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

Walking the Tightrope: The Ukrainian Crisis Through the Eyes of Africa

This policy brief analyses the effects of Russian economic and political influence in Africa and its response to the Ukrainian crisis.

 21 March 2023