Projects

The MENARA Project – The Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture: Mapping geopolitical shifts, regional order and domestic transformations – has come to an end after three years of […]

The objective of this Report – the outcome of a consultative project conducted in collaboration with external experts and research institutes – is to reflect on the major trends that […]

The last workshop of the African Futures: Horizon 2025 project was held in Pretoria on 29-30 June 2017 and was organised in cooperation with the Institute for Security Studies. It […]

This workshop held in Brussels and organised by the Open Society European Policy Institute brought together experts on and from Africa and policy-makers from across the EU to discuss what […]

This brief by Morten Jerven seeks to dispel some of the negative narratives about Africa’s economic record, as well as discern factors which could lead to future growth on the […]

This workshop on ‘EU-Africa strategic dialogue’ held in Rabat, in cooperation with the OCP Policy Center, explored African trends in terms of demography, economy and society, governance, international relations and […]

This workshop held in Paris discussed the evolution of the African security landscape with a medium-long term perspective. Sources of conflict, drivers of radicalisation, trends in organized crime and challenges […]

This brief by Luca Raineri and Francesco Strazzari explores how transnational organised crime (TOC) poses a security threat that may undermine the state in Africa, including its societal institutions, geopolitical […]

The workshop, held at the Egmont Palace in Brussels, brought together experts on Africa’s international relations alongside officials from the EU, Belgian and French institutions in order to explore what […]