Working Papers

The paper is structured on a “taper-off” principle, leading from a broader context to more specific matters. It was deemed necessary to have an overview of the wider region before [...]

If in the future EU should become a community of states with variable geometry and several concentric circles around an advanced core – which cannot be excluded after the most [...]

The development of the relations between Cyprus and the European Union has, on occasions, been riddled with political difficulties. The unresolved political problem of Cyprus has dictated to a great [...]

This paper first describes Central European Balkan policies as reactions to Western initiatives in former Yugoslavia. Second, it delineates the consequences of foreign policy lessons learned by Central Europe in [...]

This paper attempts to derive lessons from different (successful and unsuccessful) peacebuilding experiences and to suggest some policy recommendations inthe concrete operational setting of the Balkans. It shall be argued [...]

In general terms, it can be said that diplomacy, as a procedure for the settlement of international crises and problems remains a unique outlet. The collapse of the cold war [...]

A survey of similarities and differences between Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean Region in the realms of religion, family relations, customs, and lay traditions.TitleCentral Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean Region: [...]

The purpose of this work is to present in a descriptive way the classical model of mass tourism development of a Mediterranean economy and its conflict with environment. Such a [...]

This paper defends the position that, the degree of transmutation of the RCVS to the new values and practices which Russia will be able to contain and to integrate, will [...]

For European security institutions dealing with Mediterranean politics, the first problem is to understand what, in this region, is meant by the term ‘security’. In fact, the absence of a [...]