Middle East & North Africa

Research

Sustainability

Reports and papers

Promoting water cooperation in the Middle East

19 Sep 2023 - 09:00
Tobias von Lossow
Source: : Azraq Wetland Reserve - Jordan, by Alex Bezrukov © Shutterstock.com (background); Businessmen Handshake Deal Business Commitment Concept by Rawpixel.com © Shutterstock.com
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Water crises – water opportunities
This report proposes five water-related action areas in which water cooperation is ‘reimagined’ and pursued via thematic entry points of national and regional interest in the Middle East.
External authors
Annabelle Houdret - Senior researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Research

Migration

Op-ed

Door to Tunisia wide open for West Africans, and the EU fails to act

13 Sep 2023 - 16:25
Francesco Mascini
Source: Migrants aboard the "Ocean Viking", the SOS Mediterranee ship that rescued 439 migrants between Lampedusa and Tunisia, disembark in the port of Naples. (Photo by KONTROLAB/IPA/Sipa USA)
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Tunisia must curtail the uncontrolled flow of migrants from West Africa into its own country.

Research

Migration

Op-ed

Tunesië zal de massale ongecontroleerde instroom van migranten uit West-Afrika naar het eigen land moeten inperken

12 Sep 2023 - 10:25
Francesco Mascini
Source: Migrants aboard the "Ocean Viking", the SOS Mediterranee ship that rescued 439 migrants between Lampedusa and Tunisia, disembark in the port of Naples. (Photo by KONTROLAB/IPA/Sipa USA)
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De oplossing voor het migratieprobleem zijn visummaatregelen en meer mogelijkheden tot legale migratie, zegt Francesco Mascini, associate fellow, in de NRC.
Anouk Pronk

Anouk Pronk

Junior Researcher

Expertise

  • Europe in the World
  • Europe and the EU
  • Migration

Regions

  • Europe
  • Middle East & North Africa
  • The Netherlands

Anouk Pronk is a Junior Research Fellow at the EU & Global Affairs Unit of the Clingendael Institute. Her research focuses mainly on migration, examining the legal and political aspects of both European and global asylum and migration policies and the implications of these policies for the Netherlands. 

My work

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Publications

Migration

In Search of Control

12 February 2024 - 13:01
Monika Sie Dhian Ho
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Migration

In Search of Control | Australia

12 February 2024 - 13:00
Anouk Pronk
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Migration

In Search of Control | Denmark

12 February 2024 - 13:00
Anouk Pronk
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Migration

In Search of Control | Netherlands

12 February 2024 - 13:00
Migration

Geopolitieke contexten als oorzaken van migratie naar Nederland

17 January 2024 - 10:40

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News

Faces of Clingendael: Anouk Pronk

02 May 2024 - 10:31
Anouk Pronk
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Research

Conflict and Fragility

Reports and papers

The New Iraqi Opposition

31 Aug 2023 - 09:47
Source: ©arabcenterdc.org
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The anti-establishment movement after the 2021 elections
This report examines the emergence and evolution of a broader political opposition movement in Iraq after the 2021 elections, and reflects on the question of what might constitute a viable path for progress
External authors
Marsin Alshamary - assistant professor of political science at Boston College and a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution

Research

Conflict and Fragility

Policy briefs

Digital Dichotomy

23 Aug 2023 - 17:37
Moneera Yassien
Source: ©Shutterstock
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Opportunities and Challenges of Digitalization in Fragile Settings
This policy brief examines the implications of digitalization in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations (FCS). Digitalization has a transformative potential but simultaneously presents distinctive challenges.

Research

Conflict and Fragility

Reports and papers

Assessing the UN’s conflict mediation strategy for Syria from 2019 to 2023

26 Jul 2023 - 18:22
Source: Palace of Nations Geneva / Wikimedia Commons
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Time to change track
This report discusses the relevance and performance of UN mediation efforts in the Syrian civil war between 2019 and 2023.
External authors
Malik al-Abdeh - Conflict Mediation Solutions & a Track II consultancy
Lars Hauch - Conflict Mediation Solutions

Research

Conflict and Fragility

Articles

Fifty shades of hardliners: Intra-elite dynamics in Iran

26 Jul 2023 - 12:39
Hamidreza Azizi
Erwin van Veen
Source: ©Reuters - Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi speaks in defence of his cabinet selection, 2021
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By Hamidreza Azizi and Erwin van Veen

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Conflict and Fragility

Multimedia

Expert Insights: Iran

30 Jun 2023 - 10:40
Erwin van Veen
Hamidreza Azizi
Source: A giant portrait of Iran's Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is pictured during a nomadic festival in Parsabad county in the Moghan plain in Ardabil province, 739 km northwest of Tehran, April 28, 2023. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto)
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Iran’s 2022 anti-government protests shook the country and reverberated across the world.  As videos went viral of young men and women protesting en masse and of the evermore brutal crackdown by security forces, one thing became clear: Something fundamental has changed in Iran.

Research

Conflict and Fragility

Articles

Unveiling resistance: The struggle for women's rights in Iran

26 Jun 2023 - 11:43
Source: ©Mohammad Sayyad, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - International Women's Day protests in Tehran, March 1979
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Blog series - Iran in transition: The Islamic Republic is no more while it lives on

By Tara Sepehri Far

External authors
Tara Sepehri Far - Senior researcher at Human Rights Watch where she investigates human rights abuses in Iran and Kuwait.
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