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 …
After the heightened tension between the United States and Iran during the Trump administration, the risk of an all-out war in the Persian Gulf has dangerously increased. While international attention is currently focused on the way the new US Read More …
Both MENA regimes and opposition groups are closely following the formation of the new US administration, in particular the names of those who will be in charge of Middle Eastern files, in order to figure out the directions of US Read More …
An online roundtable organised by the Middle East Directions Programmein collaboration with the PREVEX (Preventing Violent Extremism in the Balkans and the MENA) and theRADEX (Contextualizing Radicalization: the politics of violent extremism) projects. In academic and political discourses on radicalization Read More …
Given the US-Iran tensions during the Trump administration, the substantial reshaping of the regional order produced by international and regional actors’ interventions in local conflicts, and the need to rescue the nuclear deal (JCPOA), the Iran file is likely to Read More …
Do peace agreements necessarily mean the end of conflicts? An essential first step to ending civil conflict is the signature of a peace agreement between rival factions. Although such arrangement may contribute to the immediate end of conflict and reestablishment Read More …
While Iraqi protesters are celebrating the first anniversary of their popular uprising this month, the Iraqi political scene looks much different from what it was when this protest movement started in October 2019. The uprising has pushed former Prime Minister Read More …
