PROJECTS ENDED
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Completed projects (1999–2006)
The Potential and Practise of the EU's Role in Conflict Settlement and Resolution in its Southern and Eastern Neighbourhood [2005–2006]
Marie Curie research project
EU EUROGULF [June 2003-May 2005]
An EU–GCC Dialogue for Energy Stability and Sustainability
This project was initiated in 2003 and is directed by Giacomo Luciani at the RSCAS, in cooperation with the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies, the National Technical University of Athens and ECONERGY Sal of Beirut.
The final conference took place in April 2005.
[Download the Executive Summary and Policy Paper by Giacomo Luciani]
Events in 2003-4.
EUROGULFHCT [2003–2005]
EU-GCC Cooperation through the Promotion of Hydrocarbon technology Transfer - Improving the EU Security of Supply
Regional Containment 'EU Style': What about Safety of Refugees? [2002–2005]
Marie Curie research project
The Political Economy of Euro-Jordanian Relations [2002–2004]
Marie Curie research project
Task Force Middle East on Iraq [2001–2004]
EU MEDSUPPLY[December 2001-June 2003]
MEDSUPPLY – Development by southern and eastern Mediterranean countries of energy sources for Europe. This consortium was co-financed by the European Commission DG-TREN (Synergy programme) and has been carried out by a consortium composed of L'Observatoire Méditerranéen de l'Energie OME (co-ordinator), Sonatrach and the European University Institute.
EU-Gulf Relations [2001–2003]
De la transnationalisation des flux télévisuels à l'ouverture des media dans les pays arabes [2000- 2004]
Marie Curie research project
The Mediterranean Programme Discussion Group on 'Energy and Politics'
This forum debates matters relating to energy and politics, such as oil and gas markets, how they function, developments and trends; the geopolitics of energy and security, energy and national politics (in oil and gas producing countries and OECD counties); the regulation of the energy sector; energy sector company strategies; corporate governance; international energy organizations and régimes. It was initiated in 2003 and is directed by Giacomo Luciani.
Economic Networks and the Politics of Fiscal Policy Reform in the Middle East [1999-2003]
Project directed by Steven Heydemann (Social Science Research Council, New York). The manuscript 'Networks of Privilege: The Politics of Economic Reform in the Middle East', was published by New York, Palgrave – St. Martin´s Press in 2004.
Tourism in the Southern Mediterranean [1999-2003]
Project directed by Kamran Ali (University of Texas, Austin) and Martina Rieker (American University, Cairo). The manuscript 'Trans-Actions: Tourism in the Southern Mediterranean' is under review for publication.
The Social Capital of Religion and Ethnicity in the Eastern Mediterranean [2001]
In 2001 the Mediterranean Programme sponsored the pilot phase of a project directed by Armando Salvatore, Bo Stråth and Peter Wagner.
La maîtrise des flux des résidus dangereux dans le bassin méditerranéen [1999–2000]
Marie Curie research project
Articulations du tourisme international et du tourisme national dans le pays de la rive sud de la Méditerranée / Structures of International Tourism and Tourism in Southern Mediterranean Countries
[1999-2000]
Project directed by Mohammed Berriane (Université Mohammed V, Rabat).