The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police officer has ignited unrest and inspired conversations across the globe. It started as a protest against institutional racism in the U.S. and turned into a wider movement of dissent aimed at exposing both the iniquities of the present, and the medium-long term effects of colonialism. All this is of particular relevance also to Euro-Mediterranean relations, as the Mediterranean has been on the interface of European colonial and imperial history in the Middle East, North Africa and beyond.

Ten years after the start of protests in the Middle East and North Africa, the process of grassroots mobilisation demanding a substantial change of the status quo continues. Over the last decade, Arab squares have been witnessing the emergence and transformation of popular resistance movements, as well as national governments’ responses against the backdrop of an increasingly conflictual geopolitical context in the broader region.

The course “Medio Oriente e i Paesi del Golfo” aims at analysing the challenges that the countries of the Middle East and the Gulf States face today and in the future. It integrates theoretical and analytical tools of International Relations with the critical sensitivity of area studies. Economic and political scenarios, relations with global actors, factors of development and geopolitical change will be also be explored as well as their relations with international actors.

The course “Analista Euro-Mediterraneo”, now in its eight edition, aims at providing participants with the necessary tools to understand and explain the political-strategic, economic and social dynamics that characterise the Mediterranean area, with a focus on the role and action of the European Union and global actors, and at strengthening the participants’ analytical skills. It integrates the theoretical and analytical tools of International Relations with the critical sensitivity of area studies.