Monthly Archives: May 2017

Istanbul conference on geopolitics and regional order in the Middle East and North Africa

In the framework of MENARA’s second plenary meeting, PODEM organized a public conference titled “Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture” in collaboration with Kadir Has University in Istanbul on May 15, 2017. The one-day conference at Kadir Has University gathered international and local experts for a fruitful discussion on the changing political, social and [...]

Precarious Resilience: Tunisia’s Libyan Predicament

By Hamza Meddeb (Future note n.5) Libya suffers from an interlinked political, security and economic crisis that is proving to be particularly destabilising for its neighboring Tunisia. The emerging conflict economy across the Tunisia–Libya border, the proliferation of non-state armed groups along with support from external actors and the backlash of increasing securitization of the [...]