Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture:
Mapping Geopolitical Shifts, Regional Order and Domestic Transformations
The Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade held a Policy Briefing on MENARA-project in April 18, 2017. Erzsébet N. Rózsa, external research fellow of IFAT and the leading senior researcher of the MENARA-project explained the project from the IFAT-side to the representatives of the Security and Nonproliferation Department and the representatives of the Middle-East and [...]
4 April 2017, King’s College The Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS) and the King’s College London Diplomacy Society hosted a joint panel discussion event on 4 April at King’s College London entitled ‘Referendum in Turkey: Presidential Systems, the Economy and Foreign Policy’. Dr Gulcin Ozkan, Professor of Economics at the University of York, and Dr [...]
On Wednesday 22 February 2017, IAI’s research team held a policy-briefing at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to present goals, methodology and outputs of the MENARA Project. The meeting was attended by policymakers from a number of offices charged with the political, economic and humanitarian dimensions of Italian foreign policy towards [...]
On Tuesday 17 January, the MENARA Project was presented to the Spanish foreign policy decision-makers from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. CIDOB’s Research Team had the chance to discuss the goals of the project with diplomats dealing with the Mediterranean and the Middle East, European affairs and Policy Planning. A member of [...]
This background paper on material factors in the MENA region selects key datasets for understanding past and present demographic, environmental, energy, economic and military transformations. It introduces the key literature relating to each factor and it identifies the most appropriate databases to assess the conditions in the MENA region. Using these databases, the ways in [...]
By Nizar Messari This paper evaluates the importance of ideas, norms and identities in the MENA region. The basic assumption is that ideas, norms and identities matter in world politics in general, and in the MENA region in particular. After presenting an overview of the debate on these concepts in the field of international relations, [...]
December 5, Brussels, Belgium DG RTD, Unit Open and Inclusive Societies hosted a conference “Europe as a Global Actor” on December 5, 2016. During this conference the representatives of projects selected under the Societal Challenge 6 of Horizon 2020 in the 2015 call presented their understanding of a number of research problems they investigate – [...]
Sabiha Senyücel Gündoğar and Aybars Görgülü This Future Note* prepared within the scope of the MENARA project aims to provide a brief outlook to the energy relations between Israel and Turkey. Following a six years of rupture in bilateral relations, Turkey and Israel signed a reconciliation agreement on June 2016 in order to normalize relations. Several developments have [...]
A New MENARA Future notes By Robert Springborg. The US presidential elections of 8 November 2016 will see two different visions of America’s future confronting one another. While most of the presidential debates have focussed on domestic issues, including the economy, trade issues and societal polarisation, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has typically [...]
Ifrane, Morocco, Tuesday, October 25, 2016 On the occasion of the restricted MENARA project workshop (WP2: Norms, identities and values and their role in shaping the regional order in the MENA), the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Al Akhawayn University, partner in the MENARA project, organised a conference under the title of “Impacting [...]
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