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The Role of the GCC in the Southern Mediterranean Countries: Reactive Response More Than Proactive Engagement

The GCC countries have increased their presence in the Southern Mediterranean region, thus contributing to blurring the artificial division line that the EU had drawn between the MENA and the Gulf region.

 24 November 2014

Syria or the Inevitability of Feeling Concerned

When the Survey was conducted, there where hopes on politics and diplomacy efforts to reach some sort of agreement for Syria. Some months later, the evolution of events on the ground brings a gloomy perspective to the future of the region.

 24 November 2014

The Three Paradoxes of the Arab Spring

The hopes of a progressive wave of democratization have ended with nostalgia for stability and the powerful role of the state and a fear of the retrograde forces of political Islam.

 24 November 2014