Politics & Cooperation

Por una nueva estrategia regional en el Golfo

Por una nueva estrategia regional en el Golfo

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.

 27 August 2021
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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

Support for Civil Society as Window Dressing. A Critical Assessment of how the EU engages with Civil Society

The EU needs to find a way to systematically differentiate its “one-size-fits-all” approach and put the ENP’s focus on reflecting more closely the specificities of each Southern Mediterranean society, actors and needs.

 25 November 2019

The Reshaped Civic Politics of Euro-Mediterranean Relations

While there is scope for EU civil society support to improve in the southern Mediterranean, many of the same civic politics are today evident within EU member states. This calls for deeper and more intense linkages and coordination between European a...

 25 November 2019

On the Insufficiencies and Dark Side of the Principle of Differentiated Bilateralism

The essay is a critical assessment of the current state of the ENP through the prism of the principle of differentiated bilateralism, beyond the debate between normative and realist approaches of EU foreign policy.

 20 November 2019

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