2. MENARA – Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture
Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture: Mapping geopolitical shifts, regional order and domestic transformations
Project number: 693244
Duration: April March 2019
Budget:  €

3. PARTICIPANTS
Barcelona Center for International Affairs (CIDOB), Spain
2 Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Italy
3 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark
4 Institute for Future Studies (IZT), Germany
5 Al Akhawayn University (AUI), Morocco
6 Center for Public Policy and Democracy Studies (PODEM), Turkey
7 King’s College (KCL), United Kingdom
8 Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT), Hungary
9 European University Institute (EUI), Italy
10 Issam Fares Institute – American University of Beirut (IFI-AUB) , Lebanon
11 Egmont Institute (EGMONT), Belgium
12 Observatoire Méditerranéen de l'Energie, France
13 Qatar University, Qatar
14 London School of Economics (LSE), United Kingdom

4. PROJECT AIMS
The MENARA Project is a common endeavor by 14 research institutions funded by the EU Commission under its flagship programme Horizon 2020.
The project will shed light on the emerging regional order and geopolitical shifts, domestic dynamics and bottom-up amid increasingly volatile and uncertain times.
MENARA will map the driving forces either pushing for conflict or cohesion in societies, fragmentation or integration in the region, and peripherisation or global embeddedness.
MENARA will project dynamics and trends into the future. Scenario-building will foster well-informed strategic thinking about the region.
The project helps the EU to better understand reality, anticipate upcoming events and outline tailored policy-options.

7. PROJECT OUTPUTS MENARA website: http://www.menaraproject.eu/
MENARA social media – Facebook, Twitter
Newsletter
MENARA Papers,
MENARA Future Notes,
MENARA internal documents,
MENARA Maps,
MENARA Voices

8. TARGETED AUDIENCE Academia Media and opinion leaders
Policy makers – national/regional/international levels
Economic and social actors

9. IFAT tasks
WP1 Conceptual and Methodological Guidelines: The State of the Art and Beyond (lead: CIDOB, IFAT: NRE & Máté Szalai )
WP4 State-Society Dynamics (László Csicsmann, NRE)
WP6 Global Dynamics (lead + László Póti, Máté Szalai, NRE)
WP7 Emerging Regional Order (László Csicsmann)
WP10 Dissemination
Coordination: Zsuzsanna Csornai

10. WP6 GOALS
Present and future global dynamics that shape regional dynamics – global powers, issues, integration processes
Global actors in the Middle East shaping order
Conflicting dynamics and there impact upon the region
Regional actors’ influence over extra-regional processes and their perception
If, where and when the Middle-East is peripheral or embedded in global dynamics

11. SCOPE Global Powers Issues Integration dynamics US Russia
China and Brazil
Issues
Global mobility
Competition for natural resources
WMD and non-proliferation
Integration dynamics
Multilateralism (UN)
Economic and financial globalisation (International financial institutions)
Global technological revolutions