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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The Maghreb’s Disengagement from Europe

The Southern and Eastern Mediterranean populations see conditionality as a form of unwanted interference and a prelude to conspiratorial designs.

 19 November 2019

The Political Crisis in Europe is Bad News for Southern Mediterranean and Euro-Mediterranean Relations

In light of the profound geo-political changes Euro-Mediterranean relations are currently undergoing, it is key to adopt a new, more effective and coherent approach for structuring EU politics.

 19 November 2019

Is Europe Exporting Instability to the Southern Mediterranean? Libya as a Case Study

There seems to be widespread belief in Libya that divisions among some EU member states involved in Libya is a destabilising factor contributing to the protracted conflict in the country.

 19 November 2019

Algeria and the European Union: Uncertainties of a Dense Relationship

For 42% of Algerian respondents, Europe is far and away Algeria’s top partner, followed by Africa and Russia. These are perceptions that do not necessarily correspond to the reality.

 19 November 2019

What Moroccans Expect from the European Union

Signs that the Moroccan government is wooing Africa are unmistakable, driving the view that the country’s foreign priorities are increasingly looking southward.

 19 November 2019
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25 Years of Wadi Araba: the State of Jordanian-Israeli Relations and the Future of the Peace Treaty

Next 26 October will mark the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Peace Agreement between Jordan and Israel, known as the Wadi Araba Treaty. 25 years later, serious doubts arise with regards to the future of the treaty.

 28 October 2019

North Africa More African than Ever: Maghreb Countries towards ECOWAS

Though North Africa has long been seen as separate from the rest of the continent, recent years have brought growing rhetoric around the engagement of Maghreb countries with sub-Saharan Africa.

 24 October 2019

New Old Thinking in Palestine

There is a Jewish maxim that people tend to look for a lost key where there is light and not where they lost the key. The diplomatic efforts to end the Israel/Palestine conflict were a search for the key where there was light.

 21 October 2019

US Foreign Policy in the Mediterranean Region and How it Affects Other Actors

There is a tendency to obsess about American presidential rhetoric and the swirl of partisan commentary as a means for interpreting US foreign policy and strategy. Such a focus obfuscates an understanding of American statecraft and defence.

 7 October 2019

India Takes the Arab and Mediterranean Markets by Storm

The EU’s privileged situation is under serious threat from newcomers to the Arab markets: China and India.

 25 September 2019

The Influencers’ Futile Toils: Russia and Turkey in the Balkans

Oddly, the Western Balkans regularly manages to attract the interest and engagement of all three world powers – the US, Russia and China –, as well as major regional actors such as Turkey and the Islamic states in the Gulf region.

 16 September 2019

The Middle East in the Geopolitics of Digital

The Middle East is not immune to the turmoil caused by the digital revolution. The events of the “Arab Springs” in 2011 demonstrated to the world the power that social media afford oppressed populations to coordinate and mobilize.

 28 August 2019