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MENARA – Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture

MENARA – Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture. Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture: Mapping geopolitical shifts, regional order and domestic transformations Project number:  693244 Duration:  April 2016- March 2019 Budget:  2.401.944€. PARTICIPANTS.

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MENARA – Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture

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  1. MENARA – Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture • Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture: Mapping geopolitical shifts, regional order and domestic transformations • Project number: 693244 • Duration: April 2016- March 2019 • Budget: 2.401.944€

  2. PARTICIPANTS • 1 Barcelona Center for International Affairs (CIDOB), Spain • 2 Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Italy • 3 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark • 4 Institute for Future Studies (IZT), Germany • 5 Al Akhawayn University (AUI), Morocco • 6 Center for Public Policy and Democracy Studies (PODEM), Turkey • 7 King’s College (KCL), United Kingdom • 8 Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT), Hungary • 9 European University Institute (EUI), Italy • 10 Issam Fares Institute – American University of Beirut (IFI-AUB) , Lebanon • 11 Egmont Institute (EGMONT), Belgium • 12 Observatoire Méditerranéen de l'Energie, France • 13 Qatar University, Qatar • 14 London School of Economics (LSE), United Kingdom

  3. PROJECT AIMS • The MENARA Project is a common endeavor by 14 research institutions funded bythe EU Commission under its flagship programme Horizon 2020. • The project will shed light on the emerging regional order and geopoliticalshifts, domestic dynamics and bottom-up amid increasingly volatile and uncertain times. • MENARA will map the driving forces either pushing for conflict or cohesion insocieties, fragmentation or integration in the region, and peripherisation or global embeddedness. • MENARA will project dynamics and trends into the future. Scenario-building willfoster well-informed strategic thinking about the region. • The project helps the EU to better understand reality, anticipate upcomingevents and outline tailored policy-options.

  4. PROJECT OUTPUTS • MENARA website: http://www.menaraproject.eu/ • MENARA social media – Facebook, Twitter • Newsletter • MENARA Papers, • MENARA Future Notes, • MENARA internal documents, • MENARA Maps, • MENARA Voices

  5. TARGETED AUDIENCE • Academia • Media and opinion leaders • Policy makers – national/regional/international levels • Economic and social actors

  6. IFAT tasks • WP1 Conceptual and Methodological Guidelines: The State of the Art and Beyond (lead: CIDOB, IFAT: NRE & Máté Szalai ) • WP4 State-Society Dynamics (László Csicsmann, NRE) • WP6 Global Dynamics (lead + László Póti, Máté Szalai, NRE) • WP7 Emerging Regional Order (László Csicsmann) • WP10 Dissemination • Coordination: Zsuzsanna Csornai

  7. WP6 GOALS • Present and future global dynamics that shape regional dynamics – global powers, issues, integration processes • Global actors in the Middle East shaping order • Conflicting dynamics and there impact upon the region • Regional actors’ influence over extra-regional processes and their perception • If, where and when the Middle-East is peripheral or embedded in global dynamics

  8. SCOPE • Global Powers • US • Russia • China and Brazil • Issues • Global mobility • Competitionfornaturalresources • WMD and non-proliferation • Integrationdynamics • Multilateralism (UN) • Economic and financialglobalisation (International financialinstitutions) • Global technologicalrevolutions

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