[{"id":1150,"date":"2022-05-27T16:07:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T13:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/emsi\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2022-05-27T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T13:11:52","slug":"issue-3-2022-climate-change-and-sustainability-in-the-eastern-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/emsi\/2022\/05\/27\/issue-3-2022-climate-change-and-sustainability-in-the-eastern-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 3, 2022: Climate Change and Sustainability in the Eastern Mediterranean."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1185.6px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Our third issue looks at climate change and sustainability in our region. In a world where there is a growing need to secure a better future for ourselves and those who are to come next, the Eastern Mediterranean is particularly exposed to the drastic phenomena resulting from climate change. By presenting these pieces, we sincerely hope that EMA can contribute to the awareness for the need of more comprehensive policy measures on sustainability and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Contributors List:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kyriacos Kokkinos<br \/>\nDeputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy of the Republic of Cyprus<\/li>\n<li>Savvas Perdios<br \/>\nDeputy Minister of Tourism of the Republic of Cyprus<\/li>\n<li>Dr Theodoros Christoudias<br \/>\nAssociate Professor, Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute<\/li>\n<li>Dr Georgios Zittis<br \/>\nAssociate Research Scientist, Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute<\/li>\n<li>Chara Agaoglou<br \/>\nEnvironmental Education MSc Project Officer of EU funded projects at the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature<\/li>\n<li>Petros Petrikkos<br \/>\nPhD Candidate, University of Nicosia, CSDP Doctoral Fellow, European Security and Defence College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1185.6px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\" 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2, 2021: Maritime and Political Disputes in the Eastern Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1185.6px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-4 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>EMA\u2019s Issue 2 features a discussion on the maritime and political disputes in the Eastern Mediterranean. Our guests include diplomats, industry, and academic experts, who elaborate on International Law, among others. The EMA Editorial Team would like to particularly express their utmost thanks to Dr Nicholas A. Ioannides, who has provided additional insights and advice in putting this issue together.<\/p>\n<p>Our contributors include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><u>Dr Nicholas A. Ioannides<\/u>, International Law Expert, Adjunct Lecturer in International Law, University of Nicosia<\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"355\"><u>Professor Efraim Inbar<\/u>, President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security<\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"472\"><u data-renderer-mark=\"true\">His Excellency, Mr Haris Lalacos<\/u>, Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic to the Republic of Cyprus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><u>Dr Constantinos Yiallourides<\/u>, Lecturer in Public International Law, University of Aberdeen; Arthur Watts Research Fellow in the Law of the Sea, British Institute of International &amp; Comparative Law (BIICL)<\/li>\n<li><u>Yunus Emre A\u00e7\u0131kg\u00f6n\u00fcl<\/u>, Independent Lawyer and Legal Researcher<\/li>\n<li><u>Yara Saab<\/u>, Coordinator of Operations, Regional Activity Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production, United Nations Environment Programme, Mediterranean Action Plan<\/li>\n<li><u>Cristian-Gabriel Louca<\/u>, Associate Advocate at Montanios &amp; Montanios LLC<\/li>\n<li><u>Christina I. Abi Haidar<\/u>, Attorney and Legal Expert, and PhD Candidate in Diplomacy and International Affairs;<u>Roudi Baroudi<\/u>, CEO of Energy and Environment Holding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-4 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1185.6px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-5 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\" 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1, 2020: COVID-19 and Regional Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-5 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1185.6px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-8 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><div class=\"sc-fdQOMr hwwnXO\">\n<div>\n<div role=\"presentation\">\n<div class=\"ak-renderer-wrapper sc-jtRlXQ cQMEon\">\n<div class=\"sc-eTpRJs jtltnR\">\n<div class=\"ak-renderer-document\">\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"1568\">Our very first Issue features the following contributors:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\">\u2022<\/span> Peter Karayiannis, Professor of Microbiology \/ Molecular Virology, Medical School, University of Nicosia<\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"1568\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">\u2022<\/span> H.E. Mr Stanislav Osadchiy, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Cyprus<\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"1568\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">\u2022<\/span> H.E. Mr. Nikos Christodoulides, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus<\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"1568\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">\u2022<\/span> H.E. Mr Sammy Revel, Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Republic of Cyprus<\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"1568\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">\u2022<\/span> Mr Noam Katz, Deputy Director-General for Public Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel and<br \/>\nMr Yiftah Curiel, Director at the Department for Digital Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel<\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"1568\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">\u2022<\/span> H.E. Ms Katja Saha, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representative to the Republic of Cyprus<\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"1568\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">\u2022<\/span> Dr Maria Hadjiathanasiou, Horizon 2020 (MSCA Widening) Research Fellow, Department of Politics and Governance, University of Nicosia<\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"1568\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">\u2022<\/span> Dr. Symeon Kassianides, Chairman of Natural Gas Public Company (CYGAS)<\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"2551\">The Issue itself focuses on International Relations and crisis management in the Eastern Mediterranean during and post the COVID-19 period, specifically looking at the first wave of the pandemic. Our contributors have published a brief article about their views on the regional developments during the pandemic of COVID-19, by looking at regional affairs from a multidimensional scope.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-6 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1185.6px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-9 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\" 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EastMed from Below: Why Low Geopolitics Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-13 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-18 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><p>One of the paradoxes of geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East regions is that, despite their inherent complexity, they are often interpreted through too simplistic explanations to understand the dynamics of regional instability and define the security challenges (\u201cwar for oil\u201d, \u201cCrusades\u201d, \u201cJihadist war\u201d, \u201cwar against terrorism\u201d etc.) Nevertheless, as the result of the dramatic chain events following the war in Iraq and the so- called \u201cArab Spring\u201d, broader international audiences have been gradually becoming more acquainted with the dangers stemming from the fragmented social fabric of the region. Regional complexity and the existence of sub-state systems of interest mean that focusing exclusively on \u201chigh geopolitics\u201d or international diplomacy is not enough to understand the deep currents of change flowing across the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean without developing a deeper understanding of the security drivers of indigenous actors. For this reason, it is vital to include the \u201cinternal realities\u201d and peculiarities of local actors into any analytical frame seeking to explain and understand geopolitical change in the region.<\/p>\n<p>First, state sovereignty in the region has ceased to be taken for granted; geographical boundaries and areas of jurisdiction are increasingly contested, and conflicts evolve on at least three intersecting levels: national, transnational, and international. As a result, geopolitical orders change as the historic blocs whose commitments are central to them are replaced or reformulated around new commitments and strategies. In fact, post-imperial borders have since the early 20th century shaped rigid perceptions of jurisdictional landscape in the region. Borders designated from afresh the morphological and anthropological nature and meaning of territory and for decades boundaries outlined the juridical space and sphere of influence that represented the line of physical contact between people and authorities and naturally afforded opportunities for cooperation and discord. The established function of nation-state borders has growingly come to impose the limits of territoriality, denote sovereignty over people and land, and represent a limit to state action. Yet this pattern of geospatial division from \u201cabove\u201d, and the ways it was misused, needs to be re-examined as it has proven fiercely problematic for the region and its people alike, failing to resolve the internal security dilemmas and instil trust.<\/p>\n<p>Although border settlements rarely postulate an ideal coincidence between place and culture, boundaries are usually accepted as perimeters of discrete cultural entities, impeccably homogeneous internally and neatly dissimilar externally. However, borders in the Middle East region barely delimitate natural or self-evident differences between separate ethnographic landscapes, but define zones variously demarcating separation or interaction between trans- border realities and spaces. Today, the Middle East as a whole is a region in which boundaries on landscapes steer up cross-border mobility, induced by vital local and national inter- dependencies within an often-contested territorial environment. In this manner, borders have been instrumental in turning up culturally, religiously and politically interconnected landscapes into fragmented and oppressive spheres of authority, sowing up the seeds of discord.<\/p>\n<p>From a macro-geopolitical point of view, the Eastern Mediterranean region constitutes a \u201cborderland region\u201d itself. As such, it could be investigated as a transition area or a strategic crossroads, or even a contact zone blending the Orient with the Occidental. But, for a deeper understanding of system dynamics and for defining the security trends in the region one must go beyond the epiphenomenal state-system relations and \u201cnational strategies\u201d and focus more on the \u2018low geopolitical\u2019 perspective. These lower perspectives are intrinsically geospatial, focusing on the delicate ethno-political and religious synthesis and balance in the region as reflected on the nature of cross-border affiliations and interests.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the developing political contestations and the ensuing destabilization and overthrow of established regimes have exposed some interesting albeit multifarious interlinkages reflected on the theatres of conflict in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. The fluidity caused by the Arab Spring domino has led to the grouping and spreading of indigenous heterogeneous forces beyond formal borders, activating a distinct clash of interests and leading up to the constellation of newly emerging power-blocks and alliances as a result of the overlapping security contestations between revisionist and status quo actors. Initially, the revival and mobilization of interethnic affiliations along the Turkey-Syria-Iraq axis exposed the interconnectedness and dormant dynamics in the region, changing the way in which the region has traditionally been viewed and examined by policymakers.<\/p>\n<p>Dominant transnational dichotomies, such as secularism vs political Islam, Sunni vs Shia, Christianity vs Islam, and critical minority\/majority contestations shape current security perceptions and define the role of influential actors and alliances across the region. Cleavages have become politically divisive due to the reconfiguration of power-relations and the triggering of counter-reactions, and because of the emergence of novel security notions, which are partly inspired by a deliberate instrumentalization of \u201cotherness\u201d and the use of \u201cproxies\u201d by international powers. This ongoing security transition has exposed not only the transnational nature of dependencies and the cross-border character of activities in the region, posing questions as to the intrinsic challenge of democratic state-formation and ethnic accommodation in the region \u2013 but it has also nurtured a drastic, yet still fluid rearrangement of international and regional power politics. Regional state and sub-state leaderships feel the need of positioning themselves in this rivalry nexus in one way or another.<\/p>\n<p>Third, security interests and confrontations in the region cut through horizontally; all states in the region face internal power contestations, while alliances are formed not only between states, but also across sub-state actors in the region. This inevitably makes it very difficult for states to decide with whom and on what for to align. Developments on the lower strands of the geopolitical (dis)order offer a perspective of the upcoming forces shaping the region, the pressures and opportunities that may arise and the risk-measures required to counter these with a view of preventing the emergence of hegemony, control, and dependence. The Eastmed region is an important security sub-system in flux; in search of order and equilibrium. Neither order in such a complex area nor any kind of regional equilibrium could ever be successfully promoted from \u201cabove\u201d without mapping, understanding, accommodating, and stabilizing the \u2018lower geopolitical\u2019 landscape.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5\"><p><strong>Dr. Pavlos I. Koktsidis<\/strong><br \/><em>Adj. 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