Topics:

• Egyptian Mediterranean Policy - HE Raouf Ghoneim
• Institutional Interlocking across the Mediterranean - Roberto Aliboni
• Addressing Mediterranean Issues: Institutional Paradigms - Seyhi Tashan
• The Mediterranean Area and Global Change - Chater
• European Common Foreign and Security Policy - Alvaro Vasconcelos
• Conceptualising non-Military Security: The Mediterranean - Muhammad Said
• The Dynamics of the Mediterranean Forum - Muhammad Selim
• French Mediterranean Priorities - May Chartouni
• Threats to Peace and Security - Mark Heller
• Muslims in Europe - Bou Ranan al-Wanas
• Multilateral Security Cooperation - Theodore Couloumbis

The second Mediterranean Study Commission meeting was hosted by the al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies and focused on cooperation between the Mediterranean countries. The conference was attended by 16 institutions from countries bordering the Mediterranean.

The consensus of the conference was that the Mediterranean region lacks political, economic and security coherence. Enhanced institutional networking between Mediterranean institutions is necessary. New security problems in the Mediterranean are emerging in addition to previous issues such as the Arab-Israeli or Cyprus conflicts. These include demographic and economic issues, particularly as the southern part of the region faces the challenges of social change, modernisation and economic development.