With industrial production and trade flows severely curbed and several economic sectors badly affected, the COVID-19 global pandemics has deeply impacted the world economy. The looming global depression is likely to further strain MENA structural economic weaknesses and heighten vulnerabilities Read More …
On 16 January 2020 the Middle East Institute of Washington DC organised a panel discussion on Reconstruction in the Civil War Zones in the Middle East addressing ways for mitigating the effects of these violent and destructive conflicts. The panel Read More …
While conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are still ongoing, stabilisation and reconstruction remain top priorities on the international and regional agenda. Years of war have created new political and economic dynamics in Syria, Libya and Read More …
On 7 January the Libyan National Army forces declared they took control over the city of Sirte, which has a particular symbolism in Libya’s recent history, having been the stronghold of the Gheddafi regime and later on the capital of Read More …
What are the major trends concerning the future of Islamism, the demand for democracy, and interest in emigration in the region and among the youth in particular, that were highlighted by Prof Khalil Shikaki (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Read More …
On 10-11 October 2019 the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute (EUI) hosted a two-day event in the framework of the Horizon 2020 Europe’s External Action and the Dual Challenges of Limited Statehood and Contested Orders (EU-LISTCO) project. Read More …
On 7 December 2019 the Middle East Directions Programme’s Director Luigi Narbone moderated the panel on ‘Exiting War Economies: Economic Stabilization and Reconstruction in MENA Countries’ in the frame of the 5th edition of Rome MED Mediterranean Dialogues(Rome, 5-7 December Read More …
This brief and insightful podcast recorded on the 29th of November aims to highlight the WPCS project’s main objectives, methodology and research components such as the military and political economy aspects of conflict and post-conflict reconstruction in Syria, as well Read More …
On the 3rd of December 2019, the Middle East Directions Programme organised the roundtable Libya’s endless war: Tripoli’s battlefield and its impact on the south.Drawing on Rebecca Murray’s extensive field experience in west and south Libya, the roundtable aimed to Read More …
After almost a decade of crises and conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa, stabilisation has become the guiding principle for the action of the international community. I But, what do we exactly mean with ‘stabilisation’? Watch the newest Read More …
