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Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood

António Vitorino, new Director General of IOM. Photo: International Organization for Migration. Elcano Blog
Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood Experts Comments

The challenges of the IOM in a migration tricky era

The Portuguese António Vitorino will head the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for the next five years from 1 October.

By Patrícia Lisa
06 Jul 2018 //
5 mins Reading time
Map of Sahel. Peter Fitzgerald, amendments by LtPowers via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
International Security Analyses

Jamā’at Nuṣrat al-Islām wa-l-Muslimīn: a propaganda analysis of al-Qaeda’s project for the Sahel

The lessons that al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has learnt after years of activity in the Sahel have crystallised in the creation of JNIM. This paper analyses its propaganda to shed light on this new alliance and its relationship with the regional organisational structure.

By Sergio Altuna Galán
01 Jun 2018 //
29 mins Reading time
Skyline of Nairobi. Photo: Stephen Martin
Globalization, development and governance Analyses

What is behind the African miracle? Implications for European cooperation

The evolution of African economies since the end of the raw-materials boom has been marked by a growing heterogeneity. The EU’s development cooperation should adapt to the new realities unfolding on the continent.

By Nicolás Lippolis
07 May 2018 //
26 mins Reading time
Vladimir Putin addresses rally on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow on election night. Photo: Kremlin.ru (CC BY 3.0)
Future of Europe Analyses

Putin after Putin

What have been the keys to the victory of Vladimir Putin in the presidential elections held on 18 March? Does the election imply a change in the current Russian political system?

By Mira Milosevich-Juaristi
20 Apr 2018 //
14 mins Reading time
The revolution of Muslim women. Photo: rana ossama (CC BY-SA 2.0). Elcano Blog
Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood Experts Comments

The revolution of Muslim women

Since the turn of the century a relatively silent revolution of great scope has been taking place: the education and the entry into the labour market of 50 million women in predominantly-Muslim countries.

By Andrés Ortega
06 Mar 2018 //
5 mins Reading time
Protesters march on Avenue Habib Bourguiba in downtown Tunis (Tunisia), angry over unemployment, rising prices and corruption, 14 Jan 2011. Photo: VOA Photo/L. Bryant - VOA: Tunisia Unrest, slideshow. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. Elcano Blog
Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood Experts Comments

Which way now for Tunisia?

Tunisia has had very little press over the last seven years, with a few reports referring to it as the last glimmer of hope of what was so hastily dubbed the ‘Arab Spring’ or as a target of jihadism.

By Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde
08 Feb 2018 //
5 mins Reading time
Map of the Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) – Iran (Teheran) proxywar in the Middle East. Source: Emmanuel Pène (Agathocle de Syracuse) / The Maghreb and Orient Courier. Blog Elcano
Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood Experts Comments

Riyadh-Tehran: intertwined destinies

An antagonism dominates the Middle East: the rivalry that pits Riyadh against Teheran. Their destinies are intertwined, not by a quantum relationship but one that is very real and ideological.

By Andrés Ortega
23 Jan 2018 //
5 mins Reading time
Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood Experts Comments

Libya is sinking even further into the abyss

Whether one looks at the humanitarian situation, or at politics or at security, the overwhelming impression is that Libya is sinking into the abyss.

By Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde
13 Dec 2017 //
4 mins Reading time
Hassan Rohani at the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2015. Photo: UN Photo/Loey Felipe (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood Analyses

The challenges of Rohani’s second term

What are the domestic constraints (from the Revolutionary Guard to economic restrictions) and the external challenges (from US-Saudi relations to the crisis in the Gulf Cooperation Council) that re-elected President Hassan Rohani will face over the next four years?

By Luciano Zaccara
30 Oct 2017 //
23 mins Reading time

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