The MENA’s regional order and place in the world are in flux. Countries across the region are navigating the emergence of a multipolar word in which US commitment to regional security appears less ...

Yet this would be to underestimate Europeans’ potential influence in the region and the risks that a largely hands-off approach poses. The project has three main components. Firstly, it maps and ...

1 Unemployment in the MENA region is the highest in the world (Figure 1) and largely a youth phenomenon. The share of youth (ages 15 to 24) in total unemployment at least doubles the total rate.

Kuwait Stock Exchange, Jack Dabaghian, Kuwait Ministry of Information / flickr.com (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). The MENA region has in the past served as inspiration for political economy theories that have ...