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Fact-Finding Missions in a Nuthshell
One year, 269 Interviews, 29 countries. With this infographic you will learn more about the specifics of this remarkable effort, conducted by the project’s partners, to capture the regional perspectives on the EU’s role in [...]
Gaza Strip: the Long-Standing Israeli Policy of Isolation, Separation and Siege of Gaza
The following map depicts the main access points to the Gaza Strip, the narrow territory where 2 million people (mostly refugees and young people) live in only 365 km2. Gaza’s residents have been increasingly isolated [...]
Arms Trade in the Mena: Who Are the Main Clients of the Great Powers?
The MENA region is said to be one of the biggest arms markets in the world. Regional conflicts and domestic security concerns allegedly justify the need for importing new military equipment. But weapons purchases are [...]
Menara Project Results
On March 31st 2019, the Menara project ended. In this video, we present the main results and takeaways of our research.
Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture: Global Actors, Contentious Issues and Integration Dynamics (Special Issue of the Foreign Policy Review)
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This Special Issue of the Foreign Policy Review is dedicated to the MENARA project conducted in the H2020 framework of the European Union with the participation of fourteen institutions, led by the CIDOB in Barcelona. [...]
THE MENARA FACT-FINDING MISSIONS: MAIN RESULTS
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This report aims to provide an analysis of the interviews conducted in the scope of the MENARA Fact-Finding Missions. Each respondent was asked three questions: (1) Which traditional or new actors will shape the future [...]
DRIVING SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE MENA REGION: THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
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On 15 November 2018, the Center for Public Policy and Democracy Studies (PODEM)2 hosted a stakeholders’ meeting in Istanbul with twenty-nine participants, including academics, experts, and representatives from civil society and international humanitarian and development [...]
ONLINE REAL-TIME DELPHI SURVEY FOR THE RESEARCH PROJECT MENARA
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A number of 139 experts and researchers from different institutes and organizations were invited to participate at the Online Real-Time Delphi Survey (RTD) about possible and likely futures of the MENA region. The experts have [...]
EMBEDDEDNESS AND/OR PERIPHERY: THE MENA REGION IN THE GLOBAL ORDER
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The place and role of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the international system can be understood and analysed as a set of asymmetrical relationships with distinct dynamics. The external environment affects the [...]
TRANSFORMATIONS OF STATE AND SOCIETY IN THE MENA REGION
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The political order in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has seen a number of transformations since the uprisings in 2011. Local, national, regional and international patterns of order and cooperation have been [...]
Report of the Focus Group with Stakeholders in the Middle-East
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As part of the MENARA project, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut (IFI – AUB) organized a focus group in Beirut (Lebanon) on 2 November [...]
Report of the Brussels Focus Group
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On 22 June 2018, a group of experts including members of the Brussels-based think thanks, Belgian diplomats, EU policy advisers and academics met at the Egmont Institute on the latter’s invitation to discuss salient issues [...]