UPON INVITATION ONLY Promoters The initiative is jointly organised by: European University Institute (EUI), Middle East Directions Programme – Luigi Narbone; Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (SSSA), ERIS Research Group – Francesco Strazzari; European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), Read More …

  This conference will close the first stage of the Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria project (WPCS) which has provided operational and strategic analysis of the prospects, challenges, trends and policy options in the Syrian conflict since October 2018. The Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria Read More …

  Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has hit most countries in the MENA region. Yet not all have faced it in the same way, nor have obtained the same results. While Tunisia and Jordan have so far seemed quite successful in limiting Read More …

  The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the MENA region in a moment where the region is marked by political and military conflicts. This is the case with the ongoing civil wars in Libya and Syria, but also with the growing Read More …

Abstract | Social media has breathed life into speech and social movements across the world. Barriers of place and time are digitally overcome as political activism transcends borders, continents, and time zones. In the United States, “online activism”—the phenomenon whereby individuals transform Read More …

  Daniel Lederman, Lead Economist and Deputy Chief Economist for the MENA Region of the World Bank Group, will present the World Bank’s MENA Economic Update (April 2020). Abstract | Due to the dual shocks of the spread of the Read More …

  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 Read More …

This event has been postponed to Thursday 4 June (10 am EST / 4 pm CEST) Abstract | Social media has breathed life into speech and social movements across the world. Barriers of place and time are digitally overcome as political Read More …

  Abstract | On 28 January, the US president Donald Trump, in the presence of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, announced his long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, except that the Palestinians were not part of negotiating it. Trump said he has Read More …

  Abstract | What explains the continued failure of the EU’s policies towards its Southern Neighbourhood? Why does the Union have so little ‘normative power’ there? Comparing a discourse analysis of EU documents with public opinion survey data from Egypt, Read More …