The GCC is fully aware of the potential threats to maritime security harbouring off the coasts of its member states. Recent developments in maritime security concern the Gulf region in a specific manner, most notably due to piracy and drug trafficking. Alongside these non-state actor threats, there are risks associated with [,,,]
The second Sharaka Fellowship for researchers in the field of humanities and social sciences has been awarded to Edoardo Barzaghi who will spend three months at the Global Connections Center (TAWASUL) in Muscat, Oman. He is carrying out a research on the representation of Europe in the Gulf cultural magazine “Al-‘Arabi”. Edoardo Barzaghi is a [...]
The Sharaka project held its second series of lectures in Kuwait, Dubai and Bahrain between 15 and 17 April 2013 aimed at enhancing knowledge and understanding of the EU, its institutions and policies in the Gulf region. The lectures dealt with the European Union’s foreign policy in the Mediterranean region in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings. Each lecture, delivered by Nathalie Tocci, Deputy Director at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), was followed by the comments and remarks of a discussant belonging to the three host organisations in the Gulf: the American University of Kuwait, Zayed University in Dubai and the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies – Derasat. [...]