Politics & Cooperation

Europe and the Arab (R)evolutions

The Mediterranean has changed. After over 50 years of regime stability in the region, a wave of revolutions and evolutions has shaken a geopolitical and cultural ensemble that seemed immutable.

EU Enlargement in South Eastern Europe: Two Recent Success Stories and Their Implications

These are tough times for South Eastern Europe. Prospects for further EU enlargement look distant.

Cyprus-Turkey: Growing Tensions

Over the course of the past fifty years, Cyprus has become a byword for an intractable ethnic conflict. Most of the time, the Cyprus Problem is little more than a source of irritation for various international policymakers.

New Paradigms for the EU-South Mediterranean: Rethinking Conditionality?

It is questionable whether the focus on conditionality is appropriate. It notoriously hard for the EU to deliver on the conditions it sets.

Policy of Zero Problems with the Neighbours

Cultivating and maintaining good neighbourly relations has always been one of the primary objectives of many governments in Turkey.

The EU in the Arab Spring: A Reinforcer Rather than a Catalyst

The EU has been relatively quick at responding to the changes in its neighborhood. Yet this well-articulated rhetoric has not delivered any efficient strategy thus far.

China and the “Arab Spring”: a new player in the Middle East?

Driven by its external resource dependency, China had to adapt its foreign policy to the “Arab Spring” countries. In this process, Beijing showed its willingness to become a more active player to defend its growing interests.

L’initiative 5+5 face au nouveau contexte en Méditerranée occidentale

La recherche de pistes de coopération qui ne soient pas seulement bilatérales, mais qui privilégient le développement de partenariats multilatéraux autour de la Méditerranée, est une nécessité.

Israel/Palestine: A Process of Peace or of Obstacles and Asymmetries?

2012 is as good (or bad) a year as any other to take stock of what is commonly known as the “Peace Process,” and what in actual fact ought to be called the “Failed Peace Talks".

The 2011 Euromed Survey: Spotlight on the Arab Spring

EU Conditionality after the Arab Spring

The focus on political conditionality raises more problems than it solves: the EU is trying to reshape its relations with the region by twiddling with the tools rather than rethinking the nature of relations between the two shores.

Tunisia and Libya in the Intra-Maghrebi Dynamics of the Arab Spring

Numerous indicators do allow us to consider the unity or risks of division or even implosion of Libya as well as the re-Islamisation or even Salafisation of Tunisia.