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Salvatore Capasso, Giovanni Canitano (a cura di)

Mediterranean Economies 2025
The Mediterranean as a Laboratory of Geoeconomics and Global Transformations

Context and overview

The Mediterranean is a strategic crossroads where global economic, demographic, and geopolitical transformations intersect. Connecting Europe, Africa, and Asia, it embodies the contradictions of globalization, combining cooperation and conflict, vulnerability and resilience. Far from being peripheral, the region functions as a key testing ground for understanding twenty-first-century challenges.
Mediterranean Economies 2025 interprets the region as a laboratory of geoeconomics, where power is increasingly shaped through economic infrastructures, trade networks, energy systems, and financial and digital flows rather than military dominance. Deep asymmetries persist between ageing, low-growth societies and younger, more fragile economies, as well as between fossil-fuel dependence and green transition efforts. These intertwined tensions make the Mediterranean a microcosm of the global order: interconnected yet fragmented, constrained by crises yet capable of innovation and adaptation.

From 2020, the Mediterranean Economies Report is published in English and becomes Mediterranean Economies (2020 Edition).
The Mediterranean Economies series aims to serve as a permanent observatory for socio-economic dynamics in the Euro-Mediterranean area. It provides a valuable resource for researchers, scholars and policy makers seeking to better understand the phenomena influencing the societies within this region. The observatory project includes a dedicated website (https://me.ismed.cnr.it/) and a database containing essential socio-economic indicators for Mediterranean economies (http://datamed.cnr.it/).
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In this issue

In an era of unprecedented global change, the Mediterranean once again stands at the crossroads of geopolitics and economics. From energy and digital transitions to the reshaping of trade routes, migration patterns, and cultural diplomacy, the region emerges as a true laboratory of geoeconomics and global transformation.
The Mediterranean Economies 2025 brings together leading scholars and experts to examine how shifting power dynamics, growing interconnectivity, and the pursuit of sustainability are redefining the region’s future.
The volume traces the strategic repositioning of the Mediterranean through analyses of geopolitics, connectivity, migration, and the twin digital and green transitions, concluding with an interdisciplinary reflection on conflict, ecology, and cooperation.
Drawing on case studies and comparative analyses spanning the Middle East, North Africa, and Southern Europe, this yearbook provides fresh insights and policy-oriented perspectives designed to promote dialogue, shared governance, and sustainable development throughout the region.

ISBN 978-88-15-39476-7
ISSN 2975-013X
Annuary – 1 issue per year
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is the Director of Department of Social sciences and humanities, cultural heritage - Italian National Research Council, and full professor at University of Naples "Parthenope".

 

Giovanni Canitano

is a senior technologist at the Institute for Studies on the Mediterranean - Italian National Research Council, and author of many studies on the Mediterranean.

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Editore: Il Mulino

Pubblicazione online: 2025
Isbn edizione digitale: 9788815413758
DOI: 10.978.8815/413758
Licenza: CC BY-NC-ND

Pubblicazione a stampa: 2025
Isbn edizione a stampa: 9788815390325
Collana: Annuario Issm
Pagine: 520

Come citare:

S. Capasso e G. Canitano (a cura di) Mediterranean Economies 2024. The New Agenda for the Mediterranean: Perspectives and Challenges, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2025

(ed. digit.: 2025, doi: 10.978.8815/413758)