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Energy challenges in the Middle East and North Africa

10/11/2008 By Edward Burke, Ana Echagüe, Richard Youngs

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In 2020 the European Union will be more dependent on oil and gas from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and will also face tougher international competition for access to the region’s supplies.

Within the MENA region, a rapidly increasing population, authoritarian forms of governance and an enhanced risk of further conflict in the region provide a complex set of challenges for its emerging relationship with the EU.

This paper demonstrates the inextricable links between the energy trade and the future governance of the MENA region and outlines some of the related challenges to EU policies.

(Published by EDC 2020)


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European energy security

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Conflict Energy Security Energy Supply Middle East North Africa

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Bio author: Edward Burke

Edward Burke analyses political trends in the Persian Gulf region, including the GCC states, Iraq and Yemen. He is currently working on an ongoing project to evaluate the politics of energy in the Middle East. Edward has also undertaken research on civil-military relations and stability operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Bio author: Ana Echagüe

Ana Echagüe graduated in International Relations and Art History from Tufts University and obtained her Masters in International Relations from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Prior to joining FRIDE, she was Deputy Director at the University of the Middle East Project in Madrid. She has also worked as a financial analyst at Lehman Brothers in London.

Bio author: Richard Youngs

Richard Youngs is Director General of FRIDE. He also lectures at the University of Warwick in the UK. He studied at Cambridge (BA Hons) and Warwick (MA, PhD) universities.