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MED Report 2020

Navigating the Pandemic: The challenge of stability and prosperity in the Mediterranean

06 December 2020

The MED Report 2020, Navigating the Pandemic, provides analyses, policy recommendations and a vast array of data and infographics to stimulate discussion and inspire innovative ideas during the 6th edition of Rome MED Dialogues. Following MED's four traditional thematic sections – shared security; shared prosperity; migration; civil society, culture and media – the Report focuses on a selection of topics that are crucial to the region, highlighting both the challenges and the dynamics taking shape in an area that has been hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The aim of this publication is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the prospects and policy options for the Middle East and North Africa, where COVID-19 has impacted on a context already marred by socio-economic vulnerabilities and instability.

 

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Table of Contents

SHARED SECURITY

The impact of the pandemic on geopolitics in the MENA region

Vali Nasr (Johns Hopkins University)

 

The sad demise of Europe’s imagined Mediterranean

Rosa Balfour (Carnegie Europe)

 

Russia’s uneasy role in the broader Mediterranean

Andrey Kortunov (RIAC)

 

The COVID-19 pandemic and China’s Middle East gains

Jonathan Fulton (Zayed University and Atlantic Council)

 

Defusing US-Iran tensions and building security in the Gulf: a roadmap

Annalisa Perteghella (ISPI)

 

Turkey’s assertiveness on the regional stage

Valeria Talbot (ISPI)

 

Syrian and Lebanese economy: a push for political compromise?

Lina Khatib (Chatham House)

 

A window of opportunity for an EU negotiated settlement in Libya

Matteo Colombo (ECFR and ISPI), Arturo Varvelli (ECFR) 

 

SHARED PROSPERITY

Times of economic crisis in the MENA region

Marek Dabrowski (Bruegel, HSE and CASE), Marta Domínguez-Jiménez (Bruegel)

 

COVID-19: a harbinger of greater inequality

Intissar Fakir (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Sandy Alkoutamy (Tsinghua University Program)

 

Economic diversification in Saudi Arabia in the wake of COVID-19

Karen Young (American Enterprise Institute)

 

Global cities in the desert: the challenge of sustainability

Andrea Tobia Zevi (ISPI)

 

The geopolitics of gas in the Eastern Mediterranean

Gabriel Mitchell (Mitvim and Virginia Tech University)

 

The food security challenge

Eckart Woertz (GIGA and University of Hamburg)

 

MIGRATION 

Migration trends in the Mediterranean and the COVID-19 pandemic

Matteo Villa (ISPI)

 

Irregular migration and Libya: is the crisis over?

Nancy Porsia (Freelance journalist and researcher)

 

EU-Turkey: towards a new deal?

Daniele Albanese (CARITAS)

 

Internal displacement and children’s psychosocial needs in Syria and Iraq

Silvia Gison, Laura Kivela, Orlaith Minogue, Miya Tajima-Simpson, Amjad Yamin, Anne Mitaru (Save the Children)

 

CIVIL SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND MEDIA

Protesters’ creative response to the coronavirus pandemic

Georges Fahmi (EUI)

 

Balancing control and freedom of expression in the times of COVID-19

Viviana Mazza (Corriere della Sera)

 

The necessity for women’s participation in the Syrian peace process

Kholoud Mansour (IMMAP and Lund University)

 

Does a North African internet governance model exist? Evidence from Egypt and Morocco

Samuele Dominioni (ISPI)

  

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Read more:

Blinken’s Israel-Palestine Tour: An Empty Shell?
Italy’s “Wider Mediterranean”: Is It Just About Energy?
Israel: New Government, New Uproar
Iran: Domestic Repression, International Isolation
Woman, Life, Freedom: Iran at a Turning Point
Pejman Abdolmohammadi
ISPI and University of Trento
Spillover Effect? The Impact of Iran’s Revolt on the MENA Region
Francesco Cavatorta
Université Laval
,
Gianmarco Fontana
Université Laval

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Scientific Coordinator

Valeria Talbot, ISPI

This report is published on the occasion of the sixth edition of Rome MED – Mediterranean Dialogues, 25 November-4 December 2020, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and ISPI.

The opinions expressed herein are strictly personal and only reflect the positions of the authors. 

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