Maps are ubiquitous – on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and name territories and boundaries, others show different voting blocs in ...

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 ...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has long been a stage for shifting political dynamics, often underpinned by regimes that have either withstood the test of time or crumbled under the ...

For more than two decades, the Burke Chair in Strategy has reported on the underlying causes of stability and instability in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region The following reports are a ...

Addressing high unemployment is a longstanding but increasingly urgent challenge for MENA countries. 1 Unemployment in the MENA region is the highest in the world (Figure 1) and largely a youth ...

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 ...

The project will identify ‘hot-spots’ of water insecurity and the problems specific to these sub-regions, countries and socio-economic groups. The research will also examine the prospects for ...