El papel de Estados Unidos en la crisis que se vive entre los países del Golfo e Irán hacen necesario un cambio de estrategia en lo que a las sanciones sobre el país persa concierna.
Silvia Colombo is Head of the Mediterranean & Middle East Programme at the Istituto Affari Internazionali, one of the 102 think tanks of the EuroMeSCo network.
The III MedThink 5 + 5 Forum, a network of 30 think tanks from 10 Western Mediterranean countries coordinated by the IEMed, is presented under the title "Human development as a driver of cooperation between the 5 + 5 Dialogue".
Ahead of the May 2018 EU -Tunisia Association Council, a group of 4 Tunisian experts and their 4 European counterparts present a Joint Policy Study on the future of the EU -Tunisia partnership.
While the Arab Middle East is in turmoil and is capturing international attention mostly due to crises and instability, the Eastern Mediterranean sub-region is witnessing some positive diplomatic momentum.
After a complicated and controversial start, the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) ends its first decade with a well-defined project and good expectations for the new stage that opens with the arrival of a new secretary general.
To many countries in the Middle East, Iran is a disruptive and difficult power. But Iran’s goals are no different from those of other countries: it seeks to preserve its territorial integrity and secure its borders.
Conflict has had devastating impacts on the populations of Libya and Syria, but it has also provided opportunities for new actors within their burgeoning war economies.
Since the beginning of the Arab Uprising, Saudi Arabia has pursued a renewed policy of regional intervention with the official goal of countering Iran's hegemonic ambitions in the Middle East.
In 2011, as the wave of anti-authoritarian protests spread across the Maghreb and the Middle East, Palestine, an example of popular mobilization over the past few decades, was left without its "Arab Spring".
The fall of East Aleppo in December 2016 strengthened the military position of the Syrian regime and its allies and revived the dynamics of the conflict in three main areas.
Turkey is one of those issues that appear repeatedly on the European agenda and about which almost everyone has created an opinion.
Complementary to the Aula Mediterrània 2016-2017 conference series, the third edition of the Aula Mediterrània Interdisciplinary Research Seminar, aims to address various topics with a common theme: the Mediterranean.
