About This Guide
Welcome! This guide will focus on beginning resources for researching Mediterranean Studies. This region encompasses thousands of years of history, changing political landscapes, and significant cultural influence, interaction, and conflict. Please note that a greater focus on Classical Studies, covering ancient Greece, Rome, and neighboring countries, is offered in the Classics research guide.
Regions covered in this guide include:
- Southern Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey
- Middle East: Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria
- Northern Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
Resources linked in this guide will focus on the Mediterranean as a whole and the interactions between countries/regions. For guidance on a specific country or region, please visit one of the related research guides (see the left-side panel).
Organizations & Resource Centers
- Institute for Mediterranean StudiesPart of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH). Focuses on historical and modern study of Greece and other Mediterranean countries in three areas: history, culture, and geoinformatics for culture and environment.
- Mediterranean Studies AssociationPromotes scholarly, multidisciplinary study of the Mediterranean. Focuses on "the ideas and ideals of Mediterranean cultures from antiquity to the present and their influence beyond these geographical and temporal boundaries."
- The Mediterranean SeminarA forum for diverse approaches to Mediterranean Studies based at UC Boulder. Resources page includes links to other study centers, related journals & series, project, organizations, and other resources.
- Society for the Medieval MediterraneanDedicated to Mediterranean study from the fifth to fifteenth centuries C.E. Publishes the peer-reviewed journal Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean.
- New-Med Research NetworkResearch network focused on the future of cooperation in the Mediterranean.
Maps
The Modern Mediterranean, Political Map
Nations Online
The Mediterranean and Migration (2017)
European Council on Foreign Relations
Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, European Commission
Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey
The Mediterranean and the EU
Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EUROMED):
"A Union of the EU Member States and 16 Southern Mediterranean countries built on cooperation agreements that aims to promote economic integration and democratic reform across the EU’s neighbours to the south in North Africa and the Middle East."
- Union for the MediterraneanIntergovernmental organization (founded 2008) aiming to reinforce the Euromed Partnership.
