Prospective Mediterranean

The Mediterranean is a mosaic of territories, suffering from economic and political weaknesses. Several attempts at "normalization", economic, political but also social and cultural life of the Mediterranean and especially in the South, were conducted by the Western powers but also by international institutions like the IMF and World Bank. These strategies are thus based on a scenario of convergence of Mediterranean societies, diagnosed late in the context of globalization, with a number of "standard" explicitly or implicitly recognized as standards of organization of the economy, society and the political field. But the evaluation of these various initiatives, among which are the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership or the U.S. project of "Greater Middle East" launched after the attacks of September 11, 2001, usually leads to a finding of slow, or even failure, in any case of uncertainty for the future.

By observing the changes and uncertainties surrounding the Mediterranean, but also its structural trends, various prospective studies that were conducted, to put understanding of developments in the Mediterranean area in the context of the Mediterranean and globalization on a time horizon of two or three decades. These studies were conducted in the framework of the Interreg Stratmed, the International Council of the City of Marseille, reports on macro-regions or the motorways of the sea

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Report: Kalypso Nicolaidis to MUCEM Tuesday of December 14, 2010

Political scientist, Kalypso Nicolaidis has taught at Harvard, she is currently professor of international relations at Oxford University, where she directed the Center for European Studies (College St. Anthony). She is currently resident at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Research (Imera) in Marseille.

Kalypso Nicolaidis, announced three key ideas that it believes should be structuring for relations between Europe and the Mediterranean in 2030 and, a fortiori, to install the MUCEM (Museum of Civilization Euro-Mediterranean) in this landscape Mediterranean.

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