How can Libya’s economic future be envisioned now that a unified government has been formed but while some of the main drivers of conflict remain? What economic priorities need to be addressed to ensure sustainable peace and development in Read More …
On 28 June 2021, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) will hold a joint webinar with the Middle East Directions Programme on A Gradual Approach Towards a New Security System in the Persian Gulf. Andrey Kortunov, Director General, Russian International Read More …
The roundtable is on knowledge formation on threat and prevention in the preventing violent extremism (PVE) agenda. It addresses the question of how such knowledge travels between the places where PVE interventions are designed and the places where they Read More …
The aim of the roundtable is to open up a discussion on public policy-making in contexts of political unrest and transition more generally. Policy recommendations for the Libyan authorities and international actors will also be made based on research findings. Read More …
The webinar will attempt to identify what cards Damascus will play the day after the elections. Syria’s presidential election day, 26 May 2021, is a symbolic milestone in the country’s decade-old conflict. The result of the election Read More …
Iran is at the centre of the geopolitical turbulence in the Middle East. Since the Islamic revolution, Iranian regional policy has become one of the main drivers of the confrontation between the West and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Tehran’s Read More …
The recently published book Resisting Europe: Practices of Contestation in the Mediterranean Middle East conceptualizes the foreign policies of Europe—defined as the European Union and its member states—toward the states in its immediate southern “neighborhood” as semi-imperial attempts to turn 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 …
Abstract Security Assistance – foreign actors training and equipping security forces in another country – has become the main form of engagement by external actors in the Middle East since at least the Arab uprisings. Now, 10 years later, security Read More …
While the current wave of violent extremism in Morocco has been witnessing a relative decline, due to security measures coupled with ideological transformations of Salafi-Jihadi figures to renounce the use of violence, a number of future challenges are yet to Read More …
