Research > Mediterranean and Middle East
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Europe and Iran in a fast-changing Middle East: Confidence-building measures, security dialogue and regional cooperation
Start/End: 2018 - 2019The regional order that prevailed in the Middle East since the end of the Cold War has come under increased strain as a result of the 2003 US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq and the consequent...
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Mediterranean Women Mediators Network (MWMN)
Start/End: 2017 - currentThe initiative for a Mediterranean Women Mediators Network aims at fulfilling the need to increase the number of women involved in peacemaking efforts and facilitating the appointment of women...
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Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture: Mapping geopolitical shifts, regional order and domestic transformations – MENARA
Start/End: 2016 - 2019The project – co-led by CIDOB, Barcelona, and IAI, that also leads the Work Packages (WPs) on the policy options and on dissemination and communication - aims to shed light on the historical,...
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A comprehensive, integrated, and bottom-up approach to reset our understanding of the Mediterranean space, remap the region, and reconstruct inclusive, responsive, and flexible EU policies in it – MEDRESET
Start/End: 2016 - 2019Euro-Mediterranean policies, as well as research on them, have been characterized by a Euro-centric approach based on a narrow geopolitical construction of the Mediterranean. Moreover,...
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New-Med Research Network: The Future of Cooperation in the Mediterranean
Start/End: 2014 - currentEstablished in June 2014, New-Med is a research network of Mediterranean experts and policy analysts with a special interest in the complex social, political, cultural and...
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Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission - EuroMeSCo
Start/End: 1996 - currentIAI participates in the activities EuroMeSCo - the euro-Mediterranean network of non-governmental institutions dealing with foreign policy and security. In November 2010 the Secretariat of the...
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The EU’s New Resilience Agenda in the MENA Region
Start/End: 2017 - 2018The new EU Global Strategy (EUGS) ‘Shared Vision, Common Action: A Stronger Europe’ unveiled in late June 2016 could represent a point of departure to re-calibrate the EU’s external and security...
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Regional cooperation and energy resource development in the Eastern Mediterranean
Start/End: 2016 - 2016The project aimed to analyse and define the influence of heterogeneous political interests on energy dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean, and vice versa, in light of the recent discovery of...
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Osce Contribution to Energy Governance in the Mediterranean
Start/End: 2015 - 2015The project, to be completed by the end of December 2015, analyses the role of the OSCE as a political mediator and regional organization that promotes a kind of cooperative security, establishing...
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The Future of Gas Markets
Start/End: 2015 - 2016The project, running from May 2015 to May 2016 and leading to the publication of an edited volume, assesses the evolution of the global gas markets, in relation to the changing dynamics of the oil...