On September 23rd, Prof. Thomas Demmelhüber have a lecture on EU-Middle East Relations at the Ibrahim Abu Lughod Instiute of International Studies of Birzeit University. More information here
Dr. Karim Makdisi published a new article “The UN and the Arab Uprisings: Reflecting a Confused International Order” in POMEPS, spring 2019. The article can be found here
The Ibrahim Abu Lughod Institute for International Studies organised a roundtable on the subject of Palestinian Refugees in the Palestinian Media on 13-14/03/2019.
More information here (in Arabic).
The international conference “The Middle East and the EU: New Realities, New Policies” was organised by MEDRESET with the participation of the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the EU Commission Federica Mogherini on 22/02/2019 at …
New EUMENIA Policy Paper by Dr. Daniela Huber “A New Venice Declaration from a “Coalition of the Lead Donors” on Israel/Palestine”, 23/04/2019. The article is available here and the pdf here.
Dr. Lorenzo Kamel published “From Pluralization to Fragmentation. The Iraqi Kurdish Case from an Historical Perspective” in Nuova Rivista Storica, April 2019.
The abstract is available here
Dr. Nikolaos Tzifakis published “Accord de Prespa: un modèle de règlement des conflits?” in France Forum, April 2019.
Dr. Efstathios T. Fakiolas and Dr. Nikolaos Tzifakis published “Human security in EU strategy: reflecting on the experience of EUPM in Bosnia and Herzegovina and EULEX in Kosovo” in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. The article is available here
“Unintended Consequences of State-building Projects in Contested States: The EU in Palestine” by Dr. Dimitris Bouris, published in The International Spectator.
ABSTRACT: The existing literature on state-building has focused mainly on post-conflict cases and ‘conventional’ examples of statehood, without taking into consideration the particularities of states that remain internally and/or externally contested. The EU’s engagement in Palestinian state-building through the deployment of EUPOL COPPS and EUBAM Rafah has generated various types of unintended consequences: anticipated and unanticipated, positive and negative, desirable and undesirable, some of which fulfill and some of which frustrate the initial intention. These have important reverberations for the EU’s conflict resolution strategies in Israel and Palestine, the most important being the strengthening of power imbalances and the enforcement of the status quo.
The full article is available here