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EU-North Africa relations in a new geopolitical era
October 28, 20257:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
7:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In English with simultaneous live translation.
With the cooperation of the Spanish Embassy in Algeria, Casa Árabe has organized this conference by Algerian scholar Arslan Chikhaoui, who will be discussing a series of geopolitical changes which involve both challenges and opportunities in the relations between European Union countries and those of North Africa.
The global landscape is gradually transforming into a multipolar geopolitical map that will eventually take shape with different certainties and uncertainties. The multi-dimensional crisis affecting the entire world today is leading to the following effects: exponential inflation, disruptions in the food, raw material and energy supply chains, displacement of vulnerable populations, high risk of migration, and an increase in large-scale urban and transnational crime. The wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the transformations in China and the US,the dynamics in the Sahel and the global climate crisis are just a few of the factors contributing to instability. This changing geopolitical landscape and intense competition amongst external powers is producing supercharged risks, but could also open up a window opportunity to improve the EU’s cooperation with its North African partners, as long as there is convergence of interests while avoiding excessive political conditions and the imposition of Western values.
You can watch the conference live on Casa Árabe’s YouTube channel.
Arslan Chikhaoui has a degree in Political Science and Economics. He currently chairs the NSV study center, which was established in Algeria in 1993. He is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF-Davos) Council of Experts, the Civil Forum of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540, and a former student of the NESA Center for Strategic Studies (NDU-NESA in Washington D.C.). He is playing an active role in several “second path” work groups that address the New Partnership for African Development, security in the Mediterranean region, the Maghreb and the Sahel, and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Free Zone in the Middle East and North Africa. He served as Top Advisor to the Algerian Institute for Strategic Studies (1991-1994) and Head Coordinator of Development Aid and Cooperation Programs for Algeria from 1982 to 1990. At the national level, he contributed to the report “Algérie, Perspective 2005” (“Algeria: Forecasts 2005”) published in 1991-92, and has taken part in the development of Algerian policy on the export of non-oil products, as well as the restructuring and privatization of Algerian State-owned enterprises.
You can watch the conference live on Casa Árabe’s YouTube channel.
Arslan Chikhaoui has a degree in Political Science and Economics. He currently chairs the NSV study center, which was established in Algeria in 1993. He is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF-Davos) Council of Experts, the Civil Forum of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540, and a former student of the NESA Center for Strategic Studies (NDU-NESA in Washington D.C.). He is playing an active role in several “second path” work groups that address the New Partnership for African Development, security in the Mediterranean region, the Maghreb and the Sahel, and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Free Zone in the Middle East and North Africa. He served as Top Advisor to the Algerian Institute for Strategic Studies (1991-1994) and Head Coordinator of Development Aid and Cooperation Programs for Algeria from 1982 to 1990. At the national level, he contributed to the report “Algérie, Perspective 2005” (“Algeria: Forecasts 2005”) published in 1991-92, and has taken part in the development of Algerian policy on the export of non-oil products, as well as the restructuring and privatization of Algerian State-owned enterprises.
