In the framework of the 2018 IMISCOE Annual Conference, MEDRESET partner FIERI has organized a panel. The conference took place in Barcelona from the 2nd to the 4th of July and it is considered to be the largest European conference on migration studies. MEDRESET's panel, chaired by Ferruccio Pastore (Fieri), was entitled "(Re)framing migration in the Mediterranean". The [...]
"The aim of our project is to press the reset bottun in the Euro-mediterranean relations". Watch our latest video where our researchers explain the aims and the challenges of MEDRESET
On the 13th and 14th of December, part of the MedReset Consortium will meet in Meknes at the Université Moulay Ismail to work on the current research work packages as well as a Public Conference entitled "Key policy challenges in the Mediterranean after the Arab uprisings" Draft Programme Programme_14 Décembre 2017 Conference Report
This paper examines the discourse and practices of Iran in the areas of water and agriculture, economy, migration and political ideas, to test Iran’s approach and also its influence in various fields. Drawing on a critical discourse analysis approach, it engages with published documents, elite discourses, and public narratives of Iranian leaders and intellectual elites to [...]
The geopolitics of the Mediterranean region has changed dramatically in the twenty-first century, partly as a result of local state dynamics and partly as a product of transformational changes at the international and broader regional levels. As opposed to the early 1990s, the EU today is no longer the dominant or key actor in the Mediterranean [...]
This document summarizes the findings of MEDRESET’s WP2 on key powers’ (namely the United States, China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey) construction of the Mediterranean and identifies policy implications. Read the Policy Brief and react on MedReset Blog here: http://www.medreset.org
Second MedReset Policy lecture by Anoush Ehteshami, from Durham University, which focuses on the main themes of MedReset WP2. WP2 (geopolitics) aims at assessing how EU policies still match the changing geopolitical configuration of the Mediterranean area by examining the role, influence, and impact of rising major powers on the Mediterranean. Visit the publications section for in-depth [...]
This paper examines the discourse and practices of Iran in the areas of water and agriculture, economy, migration and political ideas, to test Iran’s approach and also its influence in various fields. Drawing on a critical discourse analysis approach, it engages with published documents, elite discourses, and public narratives of Iranian leaders and intellectual elites to [...]
How does the EU regard the space beyond its southern borders? How has it been framing the Mediterranean space throughout the last almost fifty years, i.e., ever since it embarked on the creation of a foreign and security policy? And how have these framing practices informed, shaped and possibly determined EU foreign policy practices vis-à-vis the [...]
Three new MedReset working papers are addressing the EU's framing of the Mediterranean. The first papers examines the early phase of the European Construction during the 1970s and the 1980s. It seeks to analyse how the European Community (EC) discursively constructed itself against the Mediterranean as a neighbouring space, and how it mapped the Mediterranean accordingly. [...]
