Research > Mediterranean and Middle East
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Fostering a New Security Architecture in the Middle East
Start/End: 2020 - 2020The Middle East has experienced growing tensions as a result of competing geopolitical agendas and reciprocal meddling in the internal affairs of states. These dynamics are being reinforced by...
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EU-Middle East Network in Action – EUMENIA
Start/End: 2018 - currentEUMENIA is a Jean Monnet Network co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union for a duration of 3 years (2018-2021). It is led by the University of Amsterdam and encompasses seven...
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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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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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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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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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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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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...