African Remittances and Progress: Opportunities and Challenges (ARI)
Sixteen million international migrants originate from sub-Saharan Africa and remittance flows have grown in the last few years, but their impact on development remains unclear.
Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood
Spain, Lebanon and UNIFIL
This study assesses the causes and results of the war in the summer of 2006 and its implications for local, regional and global politics. It also focuses on Spain’s military involvement in Lebanon, especially on the relationship between the Spanish UNIFIL contingent and the local population in South Lebanon.
Failed States in Africa: The Zimbabwean Experience (ARI)
Zimbabwe is one of the failed States of Africa due to the violence and power monopoly wielded by the Mugabe regime.
Turkey’s Militant Secularist Establishment Seeks Ban on Ruling Neo-Islamist Party
The decision by Turkey’s Constitutional Court to hear the case against the neo-Islamist –and pro-European– government presented by the militantly secularist establishment could jeopardise the country’s already complicated bid to join the European Union.
Controlling Migration in Greece: Policies, Problems and Opportunities (ARI)
The main irregular migration route from Asia to Europe passes through Turkey into Greece, which also receives irregular migrants from former Communist countries.
Pateras, cayucos and Cross-border Mafias in Africa: Profiting from the Atlantic Routes to the Canary Islands (ARI)
This ARI describes the criminal business of profiting from the Atlantic routes of illegal immigration to the Canary Islands.
Lebanon in Limbo (ARI)
The presidential election in Lebanon has become the latest battle between two political coalitions competing for the reins of the country’s future. Despite the fact that Lebanese politicians have so far refrained from taking the step that would unleash chaos, the situation could spiral out of control.
Turkey’s Election: Islamists Deal a Blow to the Secular Establishment (ARI)
The Justice and Development (AKP) Party, which has its roots in political Islam, was returned to office after it won a landslide victory in early elections called to resolve a crisis with the powerful military, backed by the secular establishment, over who should be the country’s next President.
Lebanon’s Choice: Dante’s Inferno or More’s Utopia? (ARI)
Lebanon is faced with an internal political deadlock and the threat of being overwhelmed by salafi groups bent on destabilising it. The basic domestic political issues at this point are: the formation of a new national unity government, the election of a new President (the mandate of the current President Emile Lahoud expires this autumn), the creation of a new tribunal to investigate the killing of former Prime Minister Rafiq al Hariri and his escort, and the rising threat of al-Qaeda-inspired salafi groups such as Fatah al-Islam.
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