25 years after Oslo: the diplomatic battle
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The Menara Project has attended the 2018 BRISMES Conference!
The MENARA Project partners organized a panel on ‘The Impact of Changing Identities and Ideologies on Regional Order in the Post-2011 Middle East and North Africa’ at the 2018 BRISMES Conference held at King’s College London on 28 June 2018. The goal of the panel was to disseminate and discuss some of the results of […]
The MENARA Project disseminating results at the European Workshops in International Studies
Between June 6th and 8th, four researchers of the MENARA Project participated at the 5th European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), organized by the European International Studies Association (EISA) at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. In the framework of a panel aiming at rethinking regional order in the Middle East after the invasion of […]
Global Refugee Crisis – Where does the Mena Region Stand?
Today 68,5 million people are forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of conflict, persecution, violence, or human rights violations. Where does the Mena region stand? Watch our infographic!
Qatar Boycott – One year after
On June 5, 2017, Saudi Arabia and its allies Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced almost simultaneously that they were severing diplomatic ties with Qatar. One year after the start of the biggest diplomatic crisis in the Gulf, who is the winner? Watch our infographic!
The MENARA project updates
In April 2018, the team of the Menara project met in Budapest. They discussed the erosion of State capacities, the robustness of authoritarianism, the militarisation of contentious politics and the State and non-State actors that are shaping the future of the region. Until now, 160 interviews have been conducted in countries such as Mali, Iraq and […]
«Orders and Disorders in the Middle East»
The Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT) and the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), in cooperation with the Barcelona Center for International Affairs (CIDOB) and the Corvinus University of Budapest, have the pleasure to invite you to the conference entitled “Orders and Disorders in the Middle East and North Africa”. Over the past decade, the MENA region have witnessed profound geopolitical shifts, prompting extraordinary […]
Istanbul meeting: What are the main challenges of Turkish foreign policy today?
Galip Dalay – Al Sharq Forum, Turkey «When we talk about Turkish foreign policy we are talking about Turkey regional policy; and when we talk about Turkey regional policy we are talking about Iraq and Syria; and when we talk about Iraq and Syria we are talking about northern Iraq and northern Syria. So this […]
Istanbul Meeting: the main environmental challenges the region will face in the future
Martin Keulertz, King’s College London, UK: «This region is seeing a population explosion. So over the next few decades we will see a dramatic population increase which means that in this MENA region – including Iran, Sudan and Mauritania, Turkey – we will see up to 1 million people living here in 2100. This means […]
Istanbul meeting: The cosmic struggle between Islam and the West
Katerina Dalacoura – London School of Economics, UK: «The idea that there is a cosmic struggle between Islam and the west has been reinforced at a global level. This happened mainly through terrorism but what we are seeing really is that there has been the construction of an issue with regards to Islam and the […]
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