We are glad to announce the release of a 7-video playlist dedicated to the Regional Security System in the Persian Gulf, which was the topic of our recent eBook Stepping Away From the Abyss: A Gradual Approach Towards a New Read More …
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Iran are experiencing significant socio-political shifts while continual rivalries and mistrust feed region-wide perceptions of insecurity. Systemic dysfunctionalities in the Gulf security order have so far prevented the emergence Read More …
The policy roundtable on “Regional and international involvement in post-war countries: in which way could external interventions contribute to the stabilization of MENA conflicts? Comparative perspectives” (25 September 2020) concluded the 2020 MEDirections Annual Conference on Rethinking the ‘State’ in Read More …
May 2021 Europe University Institute The 2021 Middle East Directions Annual Conference will provide an opportunity to discuss the findings in the upcoming e-book Stepping away from the Abyss: Step-by-step toward a New Security system in the Persian Gulf. It will be the Read More …
Call for Abstracts Submission Deadline: 16 June 2019 (11:00 CET) A number of important trends point to the increasing risk of conflicts over natural resources in the MENA region and its immediate neighbourhood in the coming years. These include the Read More …
What are the main challenges facing the post-Islamic State (IS) scenario? This was the main issue questioned in our annual conference on Exiting War Economy Dynamics: What Future for stabilisation and Reconstruction in the MENA?, held in Florence on 19-20 November Read More …
Submission deadline: Monday 9 July 2018 (09:00 CET) Exiting war economy dynamics: The impact on stabilisation and reconstruction in the MENA MEDirections Annual Conference 19-20 November 2018, Florence (Italy) Debates on reconstruction in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region commonly Read More …
CALL FOR PAPERS Submission deadline: Monday 9 July 2018 (09:00 CET) Exiting war economy dynamics: The impact on stabilisation and reconstruction in the MENA MEDirections Annual Conference 19-20 November 2018, Florence (Italy) Debates on reconstruction in the Middle East and North Read More …
In addition to the well-known security dimension, years of military strife and state collapse in the Middle East and North Africa have created new economic realities on the ground that are likely to persist in post-conflict phases. They will shape how ongoing Read More …
