NATO has always had a southern exposure. Today’s strategic environment provides a new context for this traditional question, but also raises fundamental questions of geography, alliance politics and a shared approach to risks.
This working paper seeks to present a critical overview of the EU’s latest major Mediterranean policies, analysing the context, the text and the pretext of each of these policies.
Coronavirus in Arab countries: passing storm, opportunity for change or regional catastrophe?
The outbreak of the global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has put the new ‘geopolitical Commission’ under another stress test.
The EU and Japan must increase their efforts to become strategic players if they want to grasp the opportunities offered by Society 5.0.
The Saudis take over the presidency of the G20 in 2020, something the government wants to use to draw its reforms to the world’s attention.
A dispute between Arab neighbours has turned into a battle of sports rights that extends as far as Spain’s top-flight football competition
2011 Arab uprisings as a breaking point announcing the need for a regime overhaul in the region, and therefore a long overdue revision of Western policy
Failing to acknowledge the 2011 Arab uprisings as a breaking point announcing the need for a regime overhaul in the region, and therefore a long overdue revision of Western policy, would be a mistake with serious adverse consequences.
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