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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Tackling the Impacts of the COVID-19 through International Cooperation in the Mediterranean: Assessing Measures for Guarantees

This webinar is intended to follow up on the first EMGN webinar dedicated to the role of Credit Guarantee Schemes (CGSs) in mitigating the degree of socioeconomic and financial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 2 June 2020

Globalizing Morocco: Transnational Activism and the Post-Colonial State

The end of World War II announced a new global order. Decolonization devastated the world and the creation of the United Nations in 1945 embodied the hopes of colonized peoples as an instrument of freedom during the first Cold War.

 28 May 2020

The Impact of the Rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran in the Middle East

The rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran has had a major impact on politics and security in the Middle East since the Iranian revolution. However, there have been periods of growing rapprochement.

 21 May 2020

Building Resilience to Health Crisis through Enhanced Cooperation in the Western Mediterranean: the role of the Dialogue 5+5 in a Post COVID-19 Era

Western Mediterranean countries have been severly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. This health crisis has uncovered the respective degree of unpreparedness of the different countries of the region, putting a huge strain on their health systems.

 20 May 2020

The Palestinian Nakba and a Decolonial Analysis of Palestine-Israel

Although Palestine-Israel / Israel-Palestine “conflict” has been mainly understood as a conflict between two parties fighting for the same territory, it should be rather considered as a matter of active settlement colonialism.

 14 May 2020

China, Russia, and Geopolitical Games in Pandemic-Stricken MENA Region

As the coronavirus pandemic takes a tragic toll geopolitical games continue to be played by authoritarian regimes. Russia and China have been exploiting the situation to improve their status internationally.

 23 April 2020

Covid-19, a Stress-Test for Euro Mediterranean Relations

There are countless articles on how the Covid-19 is stress-testing the foundations of EU solidarity. Less ink has been spilled over the impact of the crisis on its external relations with Neighbourhood South.

 20 April 2020

Hostile Environments in the Mediterranean

In May 2012, Theresa May said that her aim “was to create a really hostile environment for illegal migration.” The “hostile environment” has since come to characterise a “culture of cruelty” in UK immigration policy.

 10 February 2020

In from the Cold: Russia’s Agenda in the Middle East and Implications for the EU

ussian foreign policy in the MENA forms part of a comprehensive strategy, aimed at undercutting what it perceives as Western supremacy. However, in the perception of several regional leaders, Russia emerged as a consistent actor, proving reliable.

 4 February 2020

Imposing Middle East Peace: Why EU Member States Should Recognise Palestine

In late 2017, US President broke US policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Today’s Foreign Affairs Council is an opportunity to take stock of the situation and to contemplate the next moves to make.

 22 January 2020

The Role of China in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Beyond Economic Interests

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has traditionally been rather peripheral to China’s interests. However, under President Xi Jinping this has notably changed. What security implications can its increasing presence in the MENA entail?

 3 December 2019

Assessing the Counter-Productive Potential of Foreign Support of Civil Society Organisations in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

The neoliberal NGOization of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in political discourse has resulted in many in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean viewing the organisations with distinct distrust and a reflection of geo-political dynamics.

 25 November 2019