In May 2002, CEPS initiated a "Middle East & Euro-Med" project, with support from a private foundation, the Compagnia di San Paolo, Torino, and the United Kingdom"s Department for International Development.

The project addressed in the first place the Israel-Palestinian conflict and its possible resolution, including the issue of governance of the future Palestinian state. This is placed within a wider framework of future desirable regimes of political, economic and security cooperation at the levels of the East Mediterranean, and the wider Euro-Med (or Barcelona process) region. The effectiveness of EU trade and aid policies in the region was also assessed. A comprehensive set of working papers have been commissioned for the project. The final report of the project, entitled The Rubic Cube of the Wider Middle East, was published in February 2004.

Key Publications

No. 220. From Barcelona Process to Neighbourhood Policy: Assessments and Open Issues (Michael Emerson and Gergana Noutcheva, March 2005)

No.217. The Widening Gap between Rhetoric and Reality in EU Policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Nathalie Tocci, January 2005)

No. 216. Europe and Iraq: From Stand-off to Engagement? (Richard Youngs, December 2004)

No. 206. Measuring the Economic Impact of an EU–GCC Free Trade Agreement (Dean A. DeRosa and David Kernohan, July 2004)

No. 78. Egypt’s Moment of Reform: A Reality or Illusion? (Emad El-Din Shahin, July 2005)

 
CEPS Commentaries
 

A propitious moment fo rthe EU to assert itself in the Palestinian occupied territories (July 2007, Ruth Hanau-Santini)
 
A little clarification, please, on the 'Union of the Mediterranean' (Michael Emerson & Nathalie Tocci, June 2007)

 
After the Iraq Crisis - Who is Isolated in Europe (Kirsty Hughes, January 2004)

The Rubic Cube of the Wider Middle East (Michael Emerson and Nathalie Tocci, January 2004)

The Israeli-Palestinian new war of attrition: a European perspective (Alain Dieckhoff, March 2002)

Europe’s Role in the Greater Middle East: A Russian perspective (Vitaly Naumkin, March 2002)

The Role of Europe in the Middle East: An American Perspective (Anthony Cordesmann, March 2002)

A New Middle East Approach: Externally Directed Separation (Jerome M. Segal, February 2002)

Emerging Alternatives in Palestine (Edward Said, February 2002)

CEPS Middle East Forum (2): A Proposal Regarding Peace in the Middle East (Bassam Abu-Sharif, December 2001)

CEPS Middle East Forum (1): Where will it end? (Gershon Baskin, December 2001)

ESF Papers

Iran: The Moment of Truth  (François Heisbourg, Patrick Clawson and Vladimir Sazhin, June 2005)

CEPS Middle East & Euro-Med Project Working Papers

Road Maps and Final Destinations for Israel and Palestine (Michael Emerson and Nathalie Tocci, April 2003)

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: Unique Features, First Results and Future Challenges (Eric Philippart, April 2003)

Secularisation, Inter-Religious Dialogue and Democratisation in the Southern Mediterranean (Theodoros Koutroubas, April 2003)

Mapping Israel’s Policy Options Regarding Its Future Institutionalised Relations with the European Union (Alfred Tovias, January 2003)

A Co-operative Structure for Israeli-Palestinian Relations (Bjoern Moeller, November 2002)

The European Union and Democracy in the Arab-Muslim World (Richard Youngs, November 2002)

CEPS Policy Briefs

No. 155. Making sense of Sarkozy's Union for the Mediterranean (Michael Emerson, March 2008)

No. 133. What will it take to resolve the dispute in Western Sahara? (Hakim Darbouche, June 2007)

No. 112. What should the European Union do next in the Middle East? (Michael Emerson and Nathalie Tocci, September 2006)

No.81. Parties of Power as Roadblocks to Democracy: The Cases of Ukraine and Egypt (Madalena Resende and Hendrik Kraetzschmar, August 2005)

The Rubic Cube of the Wider Middle East (Michael Emerson and Nathalie Tocci, February 2003)

CEPS Working Documents

No.229. European Neighbourhood Policy in the Mashreq Countries: Enhancing Prospects for Reform (Michael Emerson and Stephen Jones, September 2005)

No. 221. Conflict Resolution in the Neighbourhood: Comparing the Role of the EU in the Turkish-Kurdish and Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts (Nathalie Tocci, March 2005)