The Mediterranean region has faced a significant number of challenges that have stemmed from turbulent events taking place on its Southern shores: conflicts and instability, the migration crisis, disruptions of regional value chains, souring regional relations, and foreign power interferences that have severely affected the region. The Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the Southern Mediterranean, but the health crisis had ambiguous effects on the underlying economic, social, and political trends of the region. It has exposed and exacerbated much of the previous sources of tension and, obscured many of them as public attention moved towards facing the public health emergency. Will the Covid-19 pandemic spur governments and civil societies to action? Or will it just serve as another smokescreen behind which to hide the region's longstanding problems?
This Report is published in collaboration with RIAC - The Russian International Affairs Council
Table of Contents
Introduction, Andrey Kortunov, Paolo Magri
1. The Energy Sector, Competition and Security in the Eastern Mediterranean
Ruslan Mamedov
2. The Future of Radicalism and Terrorism in Fragile States
Ivan Bocharov
3. Regular and Irregular Migration Trends in a Post-Pandemic Mediterranean Region
Matteo Villa, Elena Corradi
4. Prospects for International Cooperation in the MENA Crises: The Cases of Lebanon and Syria
Chiara Lovotti
5. Libya in the Covid-19 Era: Between Local Chaos and Foreign Interferences
Andrey Chuprygin
6. Palestine and Israel in the Post-Covid World
Inès Abdel Razek
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