Politics & Cooperation

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.

Asia and the Arab Spring

As revolution swept through the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, the state of democratic reform in Asia was also in flux.

Forum Réalités in Tunisia

The forum aims to identify political and economic challenges for the future in the region with local political and economic figures, representatives of international institutions and bodies, and academics. It has the participation of Andreu Bassols,...

L’Union européenne et la nouvelle donne géopolitique en Méditerranée : Bilan des premières réponses de l’UE et perspectives dans un contexte en mutation

Le printemps arabe s'est produit alors que l'Europe faisait face à l'une des périodes les plus difficiles de son histoire récente en raison de la crise économique et financière et d'une crise de légitimité.

The EU and the Arab Spring, One Year After (a view from the North)

While the EU has delivered reasonably well on money in a context of severe economic crisis, the commitments on markets and mobility require active commitments by EU Member States and are still work in progress.

The EU and the Arab Spring, One Year After (a view from the South)

New challenges in the field of democracy promotion need novel and adaptive policies. The EU will have to walk a tightrope between non-interference in domestic political struggles and meddling in domestic politics.