MEDirections is delighted to share its latest research project report The fallout of the US-Iran confrontation for Russia: revisiting Moscow’s calculus by Abdolrasool Divsallar and Pyotr Kortunov, a joint publication with the Russian Council of International Affairs (RIAC). Amid years of Read More …
Between 2016 and 2019, Turkey launched three military operations in the northern Aleppo countryside (Operation Euphrates Shield), Afrin (Operation Olive Branch) and the northern Raqqa countryside – western al-Hasakah (Operation Peace Spring). This study addresses the questions of whether there Read More …
Iran-US relations might witness a turnaround. The main challenge for the Biden administration will be to recreate trust in the Iranian government. The Trump administration’s withdrawal from the deal has left a deep sense of mistrust which is likely to Read More …
As the new Biden administration seeks to re-engage with the global community and revisit US Middle East policies, including the Iran nuclear deal, in the new polarised and multipolar Middle East regional powers have stepped up their presence and fault Read More …
We are delighted to invite you to participate to the EuroMed Survey 2020, a consultation on the Future of the Partnership between the EU and its Southern Neighbours that was launched by the EuroMeSCo. EuroMeSCo is the main network of research centres and think tanks 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 …
MEDirections is delighted to share a new Research Project Report from the Syria Transition Challenges Project, part of the Syria Initiative. This paper was originally published in English on the 1st of December 2020. At its core, the patchwork ‘reconciliation’ strategy in southern Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share its latest eBook Revisiting natural resources in the Middle East and North Africa edited by Prof. Luigi Narbone. The struggle for natural resources has historically been central in the modern Middle East and North Africa, Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share the latest research project report by Luigi Narbone on The EU-Tunisian Relationship after 2011: Resilience, Contestation and the Return of the Neglected Socio-Economic Question. With rising socioeconomic problems reigniting popular contestation, Tunisia’s democratic system is under Read More …
The future of the so-called Rentier States, countries with their economy based on extractive resources such as oil, gas or minerals, is under severe pressure. The impact of the Black Swan event Covid-19, the resulting oil and gas demand destruction Read More …
