Roundtable / The day after IS military defeat The event is organised by the Middle East Directions Programme (MEDirections) in partnership with the European Policy Centre (EPC). It will be a roundtable structured into two sets of questions. The first Read More …
Learning from Conflicts: Approaches to Peace-Building and the Role of Europe This Executive Training Seminar focuses on approaches to conflict resolution and peace-building and the role that Europe can play in these processes. The informed audience will be exposed to Read More …
Schuman Centre’s Seminar Series: Religiosity and State-Society Relations in a Comparative Perspective: Europe and the Middle East Tine Gade: Hybrid Pathways to Resistance in the Islamic World: A Study of Islamist Groups in Lebanon and Iraq Jamil Mouawad: How “Strong” Read More …
The Middle East Directions Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre organises a seminar in collaboration with the European Association of International Studies (Associazione Europea di Studi Internazionali – AESI), led by Prof. Massimo Caneva. AESI gathers a delegation of 20 Read More …
Middle East Directions Programme Annual Conference – Florence, 3-5 July 2017 The conference provided academic analysis and fieldwork-research findings on the main dynamics and actors that are transforming the region, as well as on the links between local dynamics and Read More …
North Africa and the Middle East are today crossed by a wave of neo-authoritarian populism. This new wave has particularly targeted civil society groups, especially independent media, human rights activists and labour movements, who played an active role in the Read More …
Based on his PhD thesis successfully defended at UQAM (Montréal) in March 2017, entitled “Le contitutionnalisme d’occupation en Iraq”, Dr. Picard will analyse the influence of Western legal transplantation on State-creation and succession in Iraq. Using the British precedent of Read More …
On Monday 5 June 2017, in an unprecedented move, the three Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, in addition to Egypt, cut diplomatic relations as well as air, sea and land borders with Read More …
Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia Since the early 2000s, the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), a state institution epitomising the ongoing transformations of Turkish laicism (laiklik), has increased the number of female preachers (vaize, pl. vaizeler). In charge of Read More …
Un séminaire de Henry Laurens (Prof.), Histoire Contemporaine du Monde Arabe, Collège de France Vendredi, le 12 mai 2017 11.00 – 12.30 Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia La Grande Guerre a inventé la « guerre totale » qui abolit la distinction entre Read More …
