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FRIDE (Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior) is a European think tank for global action, which provides innovative thinking and rigorous analysis of key debates in international relations. Their mission is to inform policy and practice in order to ensure that the EU plays a more effective role in supporting multilateralism, democratic values, security and sustainable development. FRIDE Policy Briefs provide concise analysis of timely issues.

Publishers:	FRIDE
Publications:	‘Quietist’ and ‘Firebrand’ Salafism in Algeria Oman: The Outlier Tunisian Salafism: The Rise and Fall of Ansar al-Sharia Australia as a Middle Power: Fighting or Fanning the Flames of Asia? Corridors of Militancy: the Sahel-Sahara Border Regions Climate Change and State Fragility in the Sahel Gender Inequality and State Fragility in the Sahel Iran in the Middle East: Leveraging Chaos Conflicting Aims, Limited Means: Russia in the Middle East Illusions versus Reality: Turkey’s Approach to the Middle East and North Africa Rethinking Security across the Sahara and the Sahel The EU’s Geopolitical Crossroads in the Middle East Morocco's Religious Diplomacy in Africa Patient, Prudent, Strategic? The 2015 United States National Security Strategy A Broken Region: Evaluating EU Policies in the South Caucasus Back to Square One: The United States in the Middle East Enabling or Evading? Germany in the Middle East Claves de la política exterior española: octubre-diciembre 2014 Mixed Signals: China in The Middle East Tunisian Women in Politics: From Constitution Makers to Electoral Contenders An Awkward Embrace: The UK's Re-emerging Role in the Middle East Claves de la política exterior española Development and the India-EU Strategic Partnership Turkey's Russia Conundrum: To Court or to Curb? The China-EU Strategic Partnership on Development The Politics of Regionalism and Decentralisation in Ukraine Claves de la política exterior española Morocco's Islamists The EU-Brazil Partnership on Development Fatal Attraction? Russia’s Soft Power in its Neighbourhood Claves de la política exterior española Fighting the Last War? Avoiding Iraq's Fragmentation Modi's Moment? India's 2014 Elections Truth and Reconciliation? Transitional Justice in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia West Africa: Continental Engine or Brake? Is the ‘Brazil Brand’ in Crisis? China’s Economic Engagement in the Middle East and North Africa Claves de la política exterior española: octubre-diciembre 2013 Democracy and Islamists: What is Next? Fresh Start or More of the Same? Defence Policy at the December EU Summit Iran and the West: Beyond the Nuclear Deal The Eastern Partnership after Vilnius: Stay the Course and Engage the People Why do Europeans Need Armed Forces? Can the Syrian War be Ended? Visa-Free Travel for the EU’s Eastern Partners: Time to Act Can the EU Help Foster Democracy in Russia? Western Sahara: Beyond Complacency Trading Values with Kazakhstan Building a Sustainable EU-India Partnership Refugees in the MENA Region: What Geopolitical Consequences? Spanish Foreign Policy Monitor: April-June 2013 Claves de la política exterior española: abril-junio 2013 EU-US Cooperation in Central Asia Norway and Central Asia Europe's Gulf Dilemma Belarus and the Eurasian Union: Incremental Integration The EU and the Palestinians: Anticipating the Third Intifada El dilema de Europa Venezuela's International Projection Post-Chávez Spanish Foreign Policy Monitor: January-March 2013 Sweden and Central Asia The EU in Asia's Alphabet Soup Levers for Change Brazil and the EU: Partnering on Security and Human Rights? Greece and Central Asia Living with the Middle East’s Old-New Security Paradigm Engaging China on Development Europe’s Trade Strategy: Promise or Peril? Europe and the US in the Middle East: A Convergence of Partiality The Mali Conflict: Avoiding Past Mistakes Prospects for China’s Transition Belgium-Luxembourg and Central Asia Romania and Central Asia The Baltic States and Central Asia The Sixth EU-Brazil Summit: Business Beyond the Usual? New Tactics Same Strategy? US Policy Towards the Middle East Strategic Priorities for EU Defence Policy The EU Education Initiative for Central Asia Five Years on: Lessons Learnt? Transition Challenges in the Arab World Bosnia's Logjam EU-Asia Trade Parliamentary Reform After the Arab Spring The EU and Ukraine: Hapeless but not Hopeless A Progressive European Global Strategy Can the Crisis Unlock Euro-Mediterranean Relations? The EU-South Africa Strategic Partnership European Commercial Diplomacy: The Hunt for Growth Ethnicity and Tribalism in Arab Transitions Spanish Foreign Policy Monitor: July-September 2012 Results, Regrets and Reinvention: Premier Wen’s Last China-EU Summit Iran’s Regional Quagmire El nuevo sexenio en México y su relación (poco) estratégica con la UE Europe’s Involvement in East Asian Security Crunch Time for Egypt's Civil-Military Relations The EU and Pakistan's Turbulent Democratisation The European Union’s Policies Towards North Africa: What Role for Spain? The EU-Russia Partnership: a New Context The EU-Russia Summit in St. Petersburg: Another 'New' Beginning? Spanish Foreign Policy Monitor: April-June 2012 Sectarianism After the Arab Spring: An Exaggerated Spectre EU-India Free Trade: Make or Break Political Parties in Young Arab Democracies Does NATO Matter for US Defence Policy? The European Endowment for Democracy: Will it Fly? Democracy in Central Asia Taiwan in Ma's Second Term: International Implications Assad’s Fall: How Likely, How Desirable? Why Germany is Not Becoming Europe’s Hegemon When Gravity Fails… Addressing State Fragility in Guinea-Conakry Nigeria's Boko Haram Threat The Role of External Actors in the Arab Transitions The EU-India Summit Factoring in the Indo-Af-Pak Triangle After the China-EU Summit The EU Strategic Partnerships Review Poland and Spain: Partnership for a Stronger Europe Spanish Foreign Policy Monitor: January-March 2012 Islamist-led Foreign Policies: What Implications? Revamping the G20 The UK in the Middle East Algeria’s Deceptive Quiet Religion and Politics in Arab Transitions Is Germany still a EU-ropean Power? Regional Implications of NATO Withdrawal from Afghanistan The Multiple Challenges of Libya's Reconstruction The EU’s Approach to Fragility in Guinea Bissau Militaries, Civilians and Democracy in the Arab World Claves de la política exterior española: octubre-diciembre de 2012 Understanding India EU-Asia Trade Relations What does 2012 Hold for the Arab-Israeli Conflict? After the Summit: Can the Cracks be Healed? The G20 – Driving Development Behind Closed Doors The Role of New Media and Communication Technologies in Arab Transitions Pakistan’s Crisis: What Role for the EU? The G20 after Cannes State Reform in Arab Transitions ‘Donetsk rules’ and the Looming Crisis with Ukraine From Aid Manager to Diplomatic Power? El futuro de Venezuela ya no pasa por Hugo Chávez Tras las elecciones, España debe mantener su compromiso con el desarrollo Constitutional Reform in Young Arab Democracies The EU and the Arab Spring Is Iran Immune From the Arab Spring? Don’t Forget the Gulf No hay que olvidarse del Golfo ¿Es Irán inmune a la primavera árabe? Is the EU's Eastern Partnership Promoting Europeanisation? A Post-Aid EU-Kenya Partnership? Improving European Policy Towards Fragile States Improving European Policy Toward Fragile States Armenia: The Eastern Partnership’s Unrequited Suitor A European Foundation for Democracy Diez años de la Carta Democrática Interamerica Moldova: An EU Success Story? Is Poland Still Committed to the Eastern Neighbourhood? The EU and India: A Loveless Arranged Marriage A New Start in the Balkans? Ukraine in EU Security Security and Islam in Asia Why Europe Must Tune-in to the Multi-Polar Development Agenda The EU's Mistaken Approach to ASEAN Tunisia's Democratisation: Is Europe Rising to the Occasion? The Trio Presidency and EU Foreign Policy Supporting Africa's New Civil Society Why the EU Needs to Engage Russia on Asian Security From Lisbon to New York Towards Declaration of a Palestine State? Remodelling Post-Crisis Spain Syria: The Limits of External Influence The EU and the 'Special Ten' Pacifism Unbound La contribución española a la Reforma del Sector de Seguridad Time for Spain to Lead the EU's Mediterranean Policy Visa-Free Travel Belarus: Beyond Sanctions Spain and the Future of International Cooperation The EU-Central Asia Human Rights Dialogues What Not to Do in the Middle East and North Africa Breaking the Impasse España y el futuro de la cooperación internacional Armenia: Why the European Neighbourhood Policy has Failed Brazil and Europe Towards 2015 After Peace Talks The EU and Belarus The Special Tribunal for Lebanon Sri Lanka: The Failure of EU Human Rights Sanctions The EU and the Western Balkans Elections in Belarus: Regime Change? The Third Wave of Development Players Spain’s Foreign Policy in Africa France in Africa Cuba y Europa más allá de la Posición Común La tercera ola de actores del desarrollo La política exterior española en África Ten Tasks for Spain's New Foreign Minister Russia’s Machiavellian Support for Democracy Scenarios Facing Venezuela A Development Agenda for the G-20 The G20: Panacea or Window-Dressing? The G20 and Broader Multilateral Reform The G20 and the Global Governance of Development The G20 and Global Financial Governance The Battle for Ukraine’s Energy Allegiance Seizing Momentum in Bosnia Are the Millennium Development Goals Proving Counter-Productive? The International Court of Justice's Forthcoming Opinion on Kosovo EU Cooperation with the African Union Is the EU Losing Credibility in Palestine? 100 Days of President Yanukovych Old Wine in a New Bottle? The EU-Africa Partnership Why the West Should Relinquish Mubarak Serbia – Tying the EU in Knots Brazil's View on Europe Morocco's 'Advanced Status' Climate Change Post-Copenhagen Why the EU is not yet a Mature Development Partner One Year of Obama in the Middle East Of Greeks and Romans Iraq in 2010 The Unfulfilled Potential of Spain's Foreign Policy Yemen: Make Haste Slowly Post-Orange Ukraine The Rise of Budget Support in European Development Cooperation El ascenso post-crisis de América Latina Spanish Development Policies Spanish Development Policies Why Does Spain Not Have a Policy for Latin America? Spanish Foreign Policy in the Balkans Does Spain Have an Ostpolitik? Spain’s Diminished Policy in the Mediterranean Immigration and Foreign Policy Spain in Africa: The Reluctant Newcomer Spain's War in Afghanistan Beyond Copenhagen: Securitising Climate Change Signs of Hope in the Western Balkans? Chávez aprueba nuevas leyes que exigen una respuesta internacional The G20 and the Future of Market Regulation A False Sense of Security The G20: A Dangerous 'Multilateralism'? No Time to Wind-Down in Bosnia Dicing with Democracy Moldova Between Elections Crimea: Next Flashpoint in the European Neighbourhood? The EU's Approach to Israel and the Palestinians The EU and Georgia's Turmoil The EU's Eastern Partnership: Still-Born? Making Kosovo Work How Will the Financial Crisis Affect EU Foreign Policy?

Publishers:

FRIDE

Publications:

‘Quietist’ and ‘Firebrand’ Salafism in Algeria
Oman: The Outlier
Tunisian Salafism: The Rise and Fall of Ansar al-Sharia
Australia as a Middle Power: Fighting or Fanning the Flames of Asia?
Corridors of Militancy: the Sahel-Sahara Border Regions
Climate Change and State Fragility in the Sahel
Gender Inequality and State Fragility in the Sahel
Iran in the Middle East: Leveraging Chaos
Conflicting Aims, Limited Means: Russia in the Middle East
Illusions versus Reality: Turkey’s Approach to the Middle East and North Africa
Rethinking Security across the Sahara and the Sahel
The EU’s Geopolitical Crossroads in the Middle East
Morocco's Religious Diplomacy in Africa
Patient, Prudent, Strategic? The 2015 United States National Security Strategy
A Broken Region: Evaluating EU Policies in the South Caucasus
Back to Square One: The United States in the Middle East
Enabling or Evading? Germany in the Middle East
Claves de la política exterior española: octubre-diciembre 2014
Mixed Signals: China in The Middle East
Tunisian Women in Politics: From Constitution Makers to Electoral Contenders
An Awkward Embrace: The UK's Re-emerging Role in the Middle East
Claves de la política exterior española
Development and the India-EU Strategic Partnership
Turkey's Russia Conundrum: To Court or to Curb?
The China-EU Strategic Partnership on Development
The Politics of Regionalism and Decentralisation in Ukraine
Claves de la política exterior española
Morocco's Islamists
The EU-Brazil Partnership on Development
Fatal Attraction? Russia’s Soft Power in its Neighbourhood
Claves de la política exterior española
Fighting the Last War?
Avoiding Iraq's Fragmentation
Modi's Moment? India's 2014 Elections
Truth and Reconciliation? Transitional Justice in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia
West Africa: Continental Engine or Brake?
Is the ‘Brazil Brand’ in Crisis?
China’s Economic Engagement in the Middle East and North Africa
Claves de la política exterior española: octubre-diciembre 2013
Democracy and Islamists: What is Next?
Fresh Start or More of the Same? Defence Policy at the December EU Summit
Iran and the West: Beyond the Nuclear Deal
The Eastern Partnership after Vilnius: Stay the Course and Engage the People
Why do Europeans Need Armed Forces?
Can the Syrian War be Ended?
Visa-Free Travel for the EU’s Eastern Partners: Time to Act
Can the EU Help Foster Democracy in Russia?
Western Sahara: Beyond Complacency
Trading Values with Kazakhstan
Building a Sustainable EU-India Partnership
Refugees in the MENA Region: What Geopolitical Consequences?
Spanish Foreign Policy Monitor: April-June 2013
Claves de la política exterior española: abril-junio 2013
EU-US Cooperation in Central Asia
Norway and Central Asia
Europe's Gulf Dilemma
Belarus and the Eurasian Union: Incremental Integration
The EU and the Palestinians: Anticipating the Third Intifada
El dilema de Europa
Venezuela's International Projection Post-Chávez
Spanish Foreign Policy Monitor: January-March 2013
Sweden and Central Asia
The EU in Asia's Alphabet Soup
Levers for Change
Brazil and the EU: Partnering on Security and Human Rights?
Greece and Central Asia
Living with the Middle East’s Old-New Security Paradigm
Engaging China on Development
Europe’s Trade Strategy: Promise or Peril?
Europe and the US in the Middle East: A Convergence of Partiality
The Mali Conflict: Avoiding Past Mistakes
Prospects for China’s Transition
Belgium-Luxembourg and Central Asia
Romania and Central Asia
The Baltic States and Central Asia
The Sixth EU-Brazil Summit: Business Beyond the Usual?
New Tactics Same Strategy? US Policy Towards the Middle East
Strategic Priorities for EU Defence Policy
The EU Education Initiative for Central Asia Five Years on: Lessons Learnt?
Transition Challenges in the Arab World
Bosnia's Logjam
EU-Asia Trade
Parliamentary Reform After the Arab Spring
The EU and Ukraine: Hapeless but not Hopeless
A Progressive European Global Strategy
Can the Crisis Unlock Euro-Mediterranean Relations?
The EU-South Africa Strategic Partnership
European Commercial Diplomacy: The Hunt for Growth
Ethnicity and Tribalism in Arab Transitions
Spanish Foreign Policy Monitor: July-September 2012
Results, Regrets and Reinvention: Premier Wen’s Last China-EU Summit
Iran’s Regional Quagmire
El nuevo sexenio en México y su relación (poco) estratégica con la UE
Europe’s Involvement in East Asian Security
Crunch Time for Egypt's Civil-Military Relations
The EU and Pakistan's Turbulent Democratisation
The European Union’s Policies Towards North Africa: What Role for Spain?
The EU-Russia Partnership: a New Context
The EU-Russia Summit in St. Petersburg: Another 'New' Beginning?
Spanish Foreign Policy Monitor: April-June 2012
Sectarianism After the Arab Spring: An Exaggerated Spectre
EU-India Free Trade: Make or Break
Political Parties in Young Arab Democracies
Does NATO Matter for US Defence Policy?
The European Endowment for Democracy: Will it Fly?
Democracy in Central Asia
Taiwan in Ma's Second Term: International Implications
Assad’s Fall: How Likely, How Desirable?
Why Germany is Not Becoming Europe’s Hegemon
When Gravity Fails…
Addressing State Fragility in Guinea-Conakry
Nigeria's Boko Haram Threat
The Role of External Actors in the Arab Transitions
The EU-India Summit
Factoring in the Indo-Af-Pak Triangle
After the China-EU Summit
The EU Strategic Partnerships Review
Poland and Spain: Partnership for a Stronger Europe
Spanish Foreign Policy Monitor: January-March 2012
Islamist-led Foreign Policies: What Implications?
Revamping the G20
The UK in the Middle East
Algeria’s Deceptive Quiet
Religion and Politics in Arab Transitions
Is Germany still a EU-ropean Power?
Regional Implications of NATO Withdrawal from Afghanistan
The Multiple Challenges of Libya's Reconstruction
The EU’s Approach to Fragility in Guinea Bissau
Militaries, Civilians and Democracy in the Arab World
Claves de la política exterior española: octubre-diciembre de 2012
Understanding India
EU-Asia Trade Relations
What does 2012 Hold for the Arab-Israeli Conflict?
After the Summit: Can the Cracks be Healed?
The G20 – Driving Development Behind Closed Doors
The Role of New Media and Communication Technologies in Arab Transitions
Pakistan’s Crisis: What Role for the EU?
The G20 after Cannes
State Reform in Arab Transitions
‘Donetsk rules’ and the Looming Crisis with Ukraine
From Aid Manager to Diplomatic Power?
El futuro de Venezuela ya no pasa por Hugo Chávez
Tras las elecciones, España debe mantener su compromiso con el desarrollo
Constitutional Reform in Young Arab Democracies
The EU and the Arab Spring
Is Iran Immune From the Arab Spring?
Don’t Forget the Gulf
No hay que olvidarse del Golfo
¿Es Irán inmune a la primavera árabe?
Is the EU's Eastern Partnership Promoting Europeanisation?
A Post-Aid EU-Kenya Partnership?
Improving European Policy Towards Fragile States
Improving European Policy Toward Fragile States
Armenia: The Eastern Partnership’s Unrequited Suitor
A European Foundation for Democracy
Diez años de la Carta Democrática Interamerica
Moldova: An EU Success Story?
Is Poland Still Committed to the Eastern Neighbourhood?
The EU and India: A Loveless Arranged Marriage
A New Start in the Balkans?
Ukraine in EU Security
Security and Islam in Asia
Why Europe Must Tune-in to the Multi-Polar Development Agenda
The EU's Mistaken Approach to ASEAN
Tunisia's Democratisation: Is Europe Rising to the Occasion?
The Trio Presidency and EU Foreign Policy
Supporting Africa's New Civil Society
Why the EU Needs to Engage Russia on Asian Security
From Lisbon to New York
Towards Declaration of a Palestine State?
Remodelling Post-Crisis Spain
Syria: The Limits of External Influence
The EU and the 'Special Ten'
Pacifism Unbound
La contribución española a la Reforma del Sector de Seguridad
Time for Spain to Lead the EU's Mediterranean Policy
Visa-Free Travel
Belarus: Beyond Sanctions
Spain and the Future of International Cooperation
The EU-Central Asia Human Rights Dialogues
What Not to Do in the Middle East and North Africa
Breaking the Impasse
España y el futuro de la cooperación internacional
Armenia: Why the European Neighbourhood Policy has Failed
Brazil and Europe Towards 2015
After Peace Talks
The EU and Belarus
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Sri Lanka: The Failure of EU Human Rights Sanctions
The EU and the Western Balkans
Elections in Belarus: Regime Change?
The Third Wave of Development Players
Spain’s Foreign Policy in Africa
France in Africa
Cuba y Europa más allá de la Posición Común
La tercera ola de actores del desarrollo
La política exterior española en África
Ten Tasks for Spain's New Foreign Minister
Russia’s Machiavellian Support for Democracy
Scenarios Facing Venezuela
A Development Agenda for the G-20
The G20: Panacea or Window-Dressing?
The G20 and Broader Multilateral Reform
The G20 and the Global Governance of Development
The G20 and Global Financial Governance
The Battle for Ukraine’s Energy Allegiance
Seizing Momentum in Bosnia
Are the Millennium Development Goals Proving Counter-Productive?
The International Court of Justice's Forthcoming Opinion on Kosovo
EU Cooperation with the African Union
Is the EU Losing Credibility in Palestine?
100 Days of President Yanukovych
Old Wine in a New Bottle?
The EU-Africa Partnership
Why the West Should Relinquish Mubarak
Serbia – Tying the EU in Knots
Brazil's View on Europe
Morocco's 'Advanced Status'
Climate Change Post-Copenhagen
Why the EU is not yet a Mature Development Partner
One Year of Obama in the Middle East
Of Greeks and Romans
Iraq in 2010
The Unfulfilled Potential of Spain's Foreign Policy
Yemen: Make Haste Slowly
Post-Orange Ukraine
The Rise of Budget Support in European Development Cooperation
El ascenso post-crisis de América Latina
Spanish Development Policies
Spanish Development Policies
Why Does Spain Not Have a Policy for Latin America?
Spanish Foreign Policy in the Balkans
Does Spain Have an Ostpolitik?
Spain’s Diminished Policy in the Mediterranean
Immigration and Foreign Policy
Spain in Africa: The Reluctant Newcomer
Spain's War in Afghanistan
Beyond Copenhagen: Securitising Climate Change
Signs of Hope in the Western Balkans?
Chávez aprueba nuevas leyes que exigen una respuesta internacional
The G20 and the Future of Market Regulation
A False Sense of Security
The G20: A Dangerous 'Multilateralism'?
No Time to Wind-Down in Bosnia
Dicing with Democracy
Moldova Between Elections
Crimea: Next Flashpoint in the European Neighbourhood?
The EU's Approach to Israel and the Palestinians
The EU and Georgia's Turmoil
The EU's Eastern Partnership: Still-Born?
Making Kosovo Work
How Will the Financial Crisis Affect EU Foreign Policy?