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2.6. MEDITERRANEAN PROGRAMME The Mediterranean area concentrates some of the great political, economic, social and even religious tensions on the planet. It is, moreover, an essential priority for the foreign action of Catalonia, Spain and the EU as a whole. This Programme monitors and promotes research along three lines: (1) coexis- tence of frameworks of regional co-operation in the Mediterranean and in the Arab world; (2) security in the Mediterranean and the Arab world; and (3) processes of political change, democratisation and governability. All of this is done in close collaboration with public entities and, in particular, with the Spanish Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs and Co-operation. Part of the Programme's activity is carried out within the framework of EuroMeSCo, a network financed by the European Commission. The CIDOB Foundation participates in this network's organs of government and shares its research agenda: democracy and human rights, dynamics of integration, challenges for regional security, citizen security, regional initiatives and multilateralism. Added to this is the Programme's broader objective of strengthening Barcelona, Catalonia and Spain as poles of reflection, analysis and proposals on the Mediterranean, especially in the areas of politics and security. AREAS OF WORK • Development and relaunching of the Euro-Mediterranean policy • Security in the Mediterranean • Political evolution of the partner countries in the Mediterranean basin Co-ordinator Eduard Soler 48 RESEARCH CARRIED OUT • LEARNING LESSONS FOR THE • CATALONIA’S MEDITERRANEAN POLICY MEDITERRANEAN FROM THE SECURITY Esther Barbé, Professor of International Relations, SECTOR REFORMS IN TURKEY AND SPAIN Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Eduard Eduard Soler, CIDOB Foundation; Débora Soler, CIDOB Foundation. Miralles, Head of Information, Patronat Català Pro Europa, Ümit Cizre, Lecturer, Bilkent University, The Ramses 2 research network, stemming from Ankara, and Volkan Aytar, Co-ordinator of the the European Commission’s 6th framework TESEV Democratization Programme, Istanbul. programme, has asked Esther Barbé, Professor of International Relations at the UAB and Eduard Within the 2005/2006 research programme of the Soler, the Co-ordinator of the CIDOB Foundation’s EuroMeSCo network, a research team was Mediterranean Programme, to commission a constituted between the CIDOB Foundation and the study of the Catalan case within their working Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation group on Mediterranean policies. This research (TESEV) to study and compare the reforms made project analyses the limits, motivations and in the security sector in Turkey and Spain. This instruments of Catalonia’s Mediterranean policy, project focuses, first of all, on analysing the role with the study of its priority areas of interest, its played by external actors, especially the EU, and integration with the EU and the Spanish domestic actors, such as political parties, the armed government and its evolution over the course of forces and civil society. Secondly, it shows that the the past two decades. EU has not yet developed a policy for promoting security reform in the Mediterranean and it lists some concrete projects in which this could be done. • TURKEY’S MEDITERRANEAN POLICY Eduard Soler, CIDOB Foundation. • THE CRISIS OF THE CARICATURES Over the course of the year, a study has been made Eduard Soler, CIDOB Foundation. on what the Turkish policy toward the countries of the Mediterranean basin is and its degree of The crisis of the caricatures, which arose after a coherence with the policy maintained by the EU in Danish newspaper published some drawings of such areas as the Barcelona Process and the Arab- Mohammed, is an important event that led to two Israeli conflict. This research project, the results of different research projects. First of all, and as a result which have been published and presented in of a request from the EuroMeSCo network, the different forums, concluded that although one can Programme monitored how Spain experienced the observe a growing Europeanisation of the Turkish crisis, how the media transmitted this episode and policy toward the region, there is still much to be how the most relevant actors (political parties, done in order to complete it. immigrant groups, religious groups, etc.) positioned themselves. At the same time, it also studied the EU’s reaction to this crisis, paying special attention to the coexistence of very different debates in its member countries, and it analysed the decision-making process during the crisis. By way of conclusion, it showed the lack of coherence with regard to sensitive issues in the international arena. 49 2.6. MEDITERRANEAN PROGRAMME • THE PROCESS OF PRIVATISATIONS IN points in common but also areas of difference in the MOROCCO state of Mediterranean and Arab world studies in Àngel García Ortiz, Lecturer in the Department their respective countries. Among other issues, they Economics and Statistics, Florida Universitària, debated what the added value of Arab studies today Valencia, and Josep María Jordán Galduf, Professor is and what kind of interaction is produced between of Applied Economics, University of Valencia. the academic world, governments and the media. They also calibrated measures that promote the The CIDOB Foundation has commissioned these revitalisation of these kinds of studies and co- two Valencian scholars to carry out a study on the operation among scholars from different countries. process of privatisations in Morocco in the broader Co-ordinators framework of its process of economic reform. The Richard Gillespie, University of Liverpool and Iván study is carried out from a historical perspective and Martín, Carlos III University. analyses the motivations for and the obstacles to Participants its implementation. It pays special attention to the Richard Gillespie, Department Head, University of role played by external agents, especially the EU. Liverpool; Iván Martín, Lecturer in the Department Thus, it analyses the way the economic reforms and, of Economics, Carlos III University; Haizam Amirah specifically, privatisations are posed in the Barcelona Fernández, Senior Researcher in the area of the Arab Process and the European Neighbourhood Policy. World and the Mediterranean, Elcano Royal Institute; Gemma Aubarell, Director of Planning, IEMed; Bárbara Azaola, Researcher, Toledo • COMPATIBILITY AND OVERLAPPINGS Translation School, University of Castilla-La Mancha; BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN Jordi Bacaria, Lecturer, Autonomous University of NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY AND THE Barcelona; Isaías Barreñada, Associate Researcher, BARCELONA PROCESS Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Andrés Eduard Soler, CIDOB Foundation. Bassols-Soldevila, European Commission; Miguel Angel Bastenier, Deputy Director of International The Barcelona Process and the European Relations, El País; Imco Brouwer, European Neighbourhood Policy are two frameworks that can University Institute, Florence; Senén Florensa, overlap each other in the Mediterranean region; for General Director of IEMed; Rafael Grasa, Vice this reason, a research project was carried out on Chancellor, Autonomous University of Barcelona; how the tasks of the two policies should be divided Fred Halliday, Lecturer at the London School of up in order to allow for their survival and, if possible, Economics/IBEI; Miguel Hernando de Larramendi, their strengthening, in order for the EU’s foreign Permanent Lecturer, University of Castilla-La action to have greater effectiveness and coherence. Mancha; Patrick Holden, Lecturer at the University The results of this research have been presented and of Plymouth; Ferran Izquierdo, Lecturer, published in different forums. Autonomous University of Barcelona; George Joffé, Lecturer in the Centre of International Studies, Cambridge University; Josep M. Jordán, Professor of SEMINARS Applied Economics, University of Valencia; Bernabé López, Director of the TEIM, Autonomous University • RESEARCHING THE MEDITERRANEAN, A of Madrid; Juan Antonio Macías Amoretti, Research SPANISH-BRITISH MEETING OF EXPERTS ON Fellow, University of Granada; Pedro Martínez THE MEDITERRANEAN AND ARAB STUDIES Montávez; Professor Emeritus, Autonomous This meeting brought together Spanish and British University of Madrid; Joseph Mifsud, Director of the researchers from different disciplines to discuss European Unit, University of Malta; Emma Murphy, 50 Lecturer, Durham University; Tim Niblock, Lecturer, Co-ordinated by University of Exeter, Michelle Pace, RCUK Roberts Eduard Soler, CIDOB Foundation. Fellow at the European Research Institute, University Participants of Birmingham; Ana Isabel Planet, Technical Adviser, Iván Martín, Lecturer, Carlos III University, Madrid; Directorate-General for Religious Affairs, Ministry of Eduard Soler, Co-ordinator of the Mediterranean Justice; Juan Prat Coll, Ambassador on a Special Programme, CIDOB Foundation; Luciano Zaccara, Mission for Mediterranean Affairs, Ministry of TEIM Researcher, Autonomous University of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation; Michael Pugh, Madrid and member of the Alternativas Lecturer at the University of Bradford; Angeles Foundation panel of experts on the Mediterranean; Ramírez, Lecturer at the Autonomous University of Antonio Ávalos, Researcher, Autonomous Madrid; Josep Ribera, Director of the CIDOB University of Madrid; Rafael Bustos, Researcher, Foundation; Oliver Richmond, Lecturer at the IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence and Co-ordinator of the University of St.