Global Mediterranean: A New Agenda for Multilateral Security Cooperation

On June 5, 2014, an international workshop on the "Global Mediterranean: A New Agenda for Multilateral Security Cooperation" was held at Villa Abegg in Turin, Italy. The event was the product of a collaboration between the International Affairs Institute (IAI) of Rome, the Compagnia di San Paolo foundation of Turin, the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna, and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The workshop laid out the foundations of the New-Med Research Network, a new OSCE-related Mediterranean "track II" initiative, supported by the Compagnia di San Paolo and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Policy Planning Unit), which benefits from the engagement and involvement of the OSCE six Mediterranean Partners for Co-Operation (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, and Jordan) and leverages on the active participation of civil society - from research and academic institutions to foundations and other actors.