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The Challenge of Security in the Sahel: the Algerian, Moroccan and Libyan Perspectives

The New NATO Strategic Concept and the Mediterranean

The new strategies and policies that the Alliance plans to implement to achieve its updated objectives and broader security objectives are bound to have a considerable impact on the Mediterranean and NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue.

The European Security Policy and the Euro-Mediterranean Region 2010-2011

Over the last year, the shortcomings within the EU’s security policy towards its southern neighbourhood have dramatically come to the fore.

The Entry of New Factors into the Western Sahara Conflict

With direct diplomatic talks between Morocco and the Polisario Front having proven unproductive since 2007, recent developments in the Western Sahara conflict have taken place mainly on the ground.

El laberinto sirio

A pesar de las supuestas divisiones, el régimen lucha por mantener al clan Assad en el poder. Por ahora cuenta con el apoyo del ejército, pero éste podría cambiar de postura.

La intervención internacional en Libia

La operación aliada es un avance de la “seguridad de los Estados” a la “seguridad humana”. El doble rasero no implica que no sea una operación necesaria.

Las fuerzas armadas en las revueltas árabes

Elemento de apoyo en Túnez y Egipto y herramienta de represión en Libia, Siria y Yemen, está por ver el papel de los ejércitos en los procesos políticos.

Las 9 vidas de Al Qaeda

El profesor Jean-Pierre Filiu, profundo conocedor de la lengua árabe y del mundo árabe-musulmán, ofrece en este libro una detallada historia de las metamorfosis de la organización terrorista.

The Middle East Conflict and Its Impact on the Mediterranean Region

On 19 December 2008, the official six-month ceasefire between Hamas and Israel expired. The ceasefire had not broken Gaza’s isolation, since Israel kept border crossings closed.

Civil Protection: The New Dimension of Mediterranean Security

Regional cooperation on civil protection was originally conceived of as a confidence-building exercise in line with the aim of the Barcelona Declaration to promote peace, stability and security in the Mediterranean

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 2010: Obama in Charge

Obama’s speech in Cairo on 4 June 2009 was widely seen as a new beginning for US relations with the Muslim world. The Palestinians, especially, hoped for a more “even-handed” approach and an intensified engagement.

The UNIFIL Experience in 2009

Because of the international concern it attracts and its highly emotional nature, the intractable Israel-Palestinian conflict continues to be the core issue destabilising the Eastern Mediterranean.