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Science as a Bridge: The Evolving Role of Research and Innovation in Euro-mediterranean Cooperation
This policy study explores different aspects of Euro-Mediterranean research cooperation, offering perspectives from policy-makers, scientists, and stakeholders actively engaged in shaping the region’s research landscape.
11 February 2025
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EuroMeSCo Annual Conference 2023: “From the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership to a Euro-Mediterranean Geostrategic Alliance”
“From the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership to a Euro-Mediterranean Geostrategic Alliance” was the theme of the EuroMeSCo Annual Conference which took place at the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, European Union, and Cooperation in Madrid on 1...
20 November 2023
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Business Platform 2023: The Global Gateway, a New Paradigm for Relations between the European Union and its Partners in the Mediterranean and Beyond
The EU’s ‘Global Gateway’ connectivity strategy has become a flagship of EU’s global agenda. It is also likely to impose itself as a distinct cooperation paradigm in Euro-Mediterranean relations. The EuroMeSCo Business Platform will offer a u...
20 November 2023
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Paradoxical Africanisation of Libya after 2011. Growing influence of sub- Saharan African government, rebel, diplomatic and criminal actors in the post-Gaddafi state
Libya moved from being an exporter of security to sub-Saharan Africa, as under Gaddafi, to becoming an importer. Some aspects of this multi-dimensional “Africanisation” of Libya are likely to take root.
31 January 2022
- Policy Study
Infrastructures and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
Geopolitics is back. A more aggressive great power competition and the disruptive effects of new technologies have given new impetus to the analysis of the impact of geography on political decisions.
14 September 2020
- Policy Study
The Role of China in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Beyond Economic Interests?
MENA has traditionally been rather peripheral to China’s interests. However, since the early 2000s, with fast-growing energy demand in the country and launch of the “global war on terrorism”, the region has been on Beijing’s radar.
20 July 2020
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On the Insufficiencies and Dark Side of the Principle of Differentiated Bilateralism
The essay is a critical assessment of the current state of the ENP through the prism of the principle of differentiated bilateralism, beyond the debate between normative and realist approaches of EU foreign policy.
20 November 2019
- Policy Study
Cooperation with Religious Institutions as a European Policy Tool
For at least three decades now religion has been re-entering the public sphere and politics in Europe and globally. Its re-emergence, however, bears little resemblance to the past when the religion-state coupling was unequivocal.
20 May 2019
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Global Power Shifts, Rational Choice and Role Conflict: Explaining the Trajectories of the Central Maghreb Countries’ EU Policies since 2011
This paper seeks to trace and explain the diverging and non-linear trajectories of the three central Maghreb countries’ foreign policies towards the EU since the 2011 Arab Uprisings.
18 April 2019
- Policy Study
The Role of Russia in the Middle East and North Africa Region. Strategy or Opportunism?
Over the last few years, the myth of a Russian “return” to the MENA region has captured increasing attention all over the area and beyond. Is the growing Russian assertiveness in the region enough to speak of a proper Moscow “strategy”?
16 April 2019
- Policy Study
The EU-Tunisia Privileged Partnership – What Next?
It would be odd if the outcome of the Association Council were limited to the adoption of partnership priorities. While a new model of partnership will not be presented, there should be some language on an ambitious mid- to long-term perspective.
16 April 2018
- Policy Study
The 5+5 Dialogue as a Mechanism of Integration and Regional Cooperation
Cooperation at the regional level faces many future challenges, and that is where the added value of the 5+5 Dialogue resides, provided that complementarities continue to exist with the other cooperation structures.
12 December 2016