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Abolish the Union for the Mediterranean
The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) was stillborn. Created in 2008, it has blatantly failed to fulfill its purpose: to unlock the stalled regional Euro-Mediterranean cooperation. Detaching technical...
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The EU must back a multilateral Middle East
The Middle East has traditionally been the scene of confrontation among great powers. Today, the Arab uprisings have confirmed the possible shifting of the world towards a multilateral order. America...
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Egypt: An alarming precedent
On 8 July, newly-elected Egyptian president Mohammad Morsi overrode the ruling of the Supreme Constitutional Court’s (SCC) decision to dissolve the months-old parliament. Reinstating it provisionally...
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Wooing Islamists, don’t forget the liberals
EU and US policy-makers have shunned Islamist political actors for years. In a desire to uphold alliances with Arab autocrats, Western governments were not keen to alienate their partners by building...
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Las peticiones de Mohamed Al Zawahiri “no son realistas”
FRIDE’s Head of Strategic Affairs, Daniel Keohane, was interviewed by Te Interesa on Mohamed Al Zawahiri’s plan for a truce between Al-Qaeda and the West. Al Zawahiri had outlined his plan in a...
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Une nécessaire relecture du Printemps arabe
FRIDE Middle East and North Africa expert, Barah Mikail, was recently interviewed by affaires-strategiques.info to discuss his new book Une nécessaire relecture du Printemps arabe (A neccessary...
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Le Printemps arabe n’est pas terminé
FRIDE Middle East and North Africa expert, Barah Mikail, was recently interviewed by jolpress.com about the Arab Spring’s on-going developments. Plus d’un an après les débuts du Printemps arabe, qui...
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The US & Egypt: With frenemies like this . . .
As the first democratically elected Egyptian president to address the United Nations General Assembly, on 26 September 2012, President Mohamed Morsi outlined foreign policies in sharp contrast to that...
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L’UE est un partenaire clé pour les pays du printemps arabe
FRIDE Director, Richard Youngs, has co-authored an opinion piece with Raquel Cabrera Alvarez, an advisor to the EU’s Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean region, published in Le Monde....
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Preserving European influence in the Middle East and North Africa
FRIDE senior researcher, Kristina Kausch, has written an opinion piece for the LSE Europp Blog, arguing that If Europe is to preserve influence in the Middle East and North Africa, it must move on from...
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A Recipe for Civil War?
The Constitutional vote on 14-15 January sends Egypt’s democratic transition back to square one. There is uncertainty as to what the future may hold for the country. While there are differences between...
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Rethinking relationships to Europe’s South
Europe’s broader Southern vicinity has had an express geopolitical makeover. In one decade, a predictable order of political stasis in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has given way to an array...
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ISIS explained
What is ISIS? Will the coalition’s strategy work? How ISIS got where it is? In light of ISIS advances throughout the MENA region and beyond, particularly in Syria and Iraq, the international...
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