EuroMeSCo Annual Conference 2014

Following the EuroMeSCo General Assembly, GPoT Center’s Project Officer Duygu Alpan participated in the EuroMeSCo Annual Conference 2014 in Barcelona between October 2nd and 3rd, 2014. The conference was jointly organised by the Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission - EuroMeSCo and European Institute of the Mediterranean - IEMed.

The theme of this year’s conference was “Increasing Diversity in the Euro-Mediterranean Region?”. The discussions during the two-day event covered the following topics:

-The ever more complex Mediterranean: National conflicts and democratic transitions;
-Geopolitical transformations in the Mediterranean: Transnational politics and external actors;
-Scenarios for democratic consolidation and reform;
-Patterns of national fragmentation and confrontation;
-Eluding transformation: Patterns of political continuity;
-Euro-Mediterranean politics and the challenge of regional diversity and fragmentation.

EuroMeSCo, which comprises 99 institutes coming from 32 countries out of the 43 members of the Union for Mediterranean, is the main network of research centres on politics and security in the Mediterranean. GPoT Center is proud of being a a member of EuroMeSCo’s Steering Committee.