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“‘Why' and 'What for' an Atlantic Defence Centre? 

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21
9:00 am November 2019

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21
6:00 pm November 2019

Our Senior Fellow, Rachid El Houdaigui intervened in a seminar organized by the Portuguese Ministry of Defence. This one-day seminar aims at mapping security issues in the Atlantic, which the future Atlantic Centre for defence capacity-building can contribute to.

The Centre focuses on the Atlantic from North to South and East to West. The first Seminar of the Atlantic takes place in Lisbon, on the 21st November.The seminar has two restricted workshops with experts, followed by a public session with the Portuguese Minister of Defense and a keynote speaker. Rachid El Houdaigui took part in the first workshop entitled: « ‘Why' and 'What for' an Atlantic Defence Centre ». 

Speakers
Rachid El Houdaigui
Senior Fellow
Rachid El Houdaïgui is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. He also serves as a professor of International Relations at Abdelmalek Essaadi University's Law Faculty in Tangier. His expertise encompasses international relations, geopolitics, defense and security, focusing on the Mediterranean region, North Africa, and the Arab world. He also serves as a professor at the Royal College of Advanced Military Studies in Kenitra and is a visiting professor at Cergy-Pontoise University (Paris), Cadiz University (Spain), and La Sagesse University (Beirut, Lebanon).   He is the founder of the Moroccan-Spanish review "Peace and International Security" and oversees the Observatory of Mediterranean Studies ...