Security

La locura del armamento se apodera del Magreb

Mientras España y Francia se inclinan por vender su material militar a Libia y Argelia, clientes tradicionales de Rusia, ésta intenta abrir mercado en Marruecos.

Carrera armamentística en el Magreb

Las rivalidades internas, la competencia geoestratégica y el fantasma de Al Qaeda explicarían el frenesí de Argelia, Marruecos y Libia por rearmarse.

Population, Human Development and Human Security in Arab Mediterranean Countries

Achieving higher levels of human development would contribute to an easing of domestic and regional tensions.

Shared Basin Management (Conflict versus Cooperation). A Case Study: the Nile Basin

In the face of population growth, rampant urbanisation, industrialisation and environmental degradation, shared basin management has proved to be synonymous to conflict management.

Arms Race in the Mediterranean

The Middle East has repeatedly had the dubious distinction of being the region with the world’s largest arms imports.

Shared Basin Management (Disputes Vs Cooperation). A Case Study: Israel-Palestine

Water issues in the Middle East are often portrayed as an international problem with opposing states competing for resources that are becoming inexorably scarcer. Such a perception prevents us from understanding the multi-scalar interactions .

Al-Qaida au Sud de la Méditerranée

La matrice pakistano-afghane d’une organisation dirigée par un Saoudien déchu a détourné Al-Qaida de la rive sud de la Méditerranée, vue au mieux comme un espace de transit vers d’autres terres de jihad.

Cambios del terrorismo argelino con crisis juvenil de fondo

El gobierno culpa a Irak del terrorismo, pero sus raíces se encuentran también en una juventud desestabilizada.

Jihadi Threats in the Sahara and Sahel

¿Tiene el terrorismo una base cultural?

Ninguna cultura origina violencia; las circunstancias de cada momento favorecen la aparición de un pensamiento político que incita a la violencia ciega.

The War in Lebanon and the Situation in the Middle East

The consequences of last summer’s devastating war in Lebanon and the north of Israel did not only affect the parties in conflict but also their neighbouring countries and, in general, the entire region of the Middle East.

In the Eye of the Storm: the Summer 2006 War in Lebanon

Together with Iraq and the situation in Palestine, Lebanon represented another factor of instability in the Eastern Mediterranean.