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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Túnez en regresión

El retorno al autoritarismo del único país que sobrevivió a la Primavera Árabe plantea necesariamente interrogantes sobre las deficiencias del gobierno durante el período de transición en Túnez.

 20 July 2023

Al Assad regresa a la arena árabe

El terremoto que sacudió el sureste de Turquía el 6 de febrero no solo causó muerte y destrucción también en Siria, sino que abrió definitivamente la puerta al regreso de Bashar al Assad a la arena árabe.

 20 July 2023

Recep Tayyip Erdogan: el hombre invencible de Turquía

Erdogan está orgulloso de haber pasado a la historia como el fundador de una nueva Turquía, que ha amoldado a sus principios, sus valores y su visión durante las dos décadas que ha estado en el poder.

 20 July 2023

Europa en el nuevo panorama geopolítico regional

La  Unión Europea (UE) aspira a convertirse en un actor mundial y, sin duda, tiene la riqueza económica para serlo. Un análisis de la vecindad de Europa muestra que no es capaz de hacerlo.

 20 July 2023

A Decade of al-Sisi in Power: Between Economic Crisis, Repression and the Search for International Recognition

A decade after the coup led by Field Marshal Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, the process of authoritarian restoration has got a firm foothold in Egypt.

 18 July 2023

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