The Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies took part in the XVIII Congress of the Spanish Association of Political Science and Administration (AECPA), held on September 9 and 10, 2026, through the participation of three members of its team, who each presented papers within different Working Groups of the congress.
José María González Riera, Deputy Director of Research and Projects at the Euro-Arab Foundation, presented the paper “Judicial Reform in Morocco: Constitutionalization of the IER’s Recommendations and Legislative Development” on Wednesday, September 9. The paper analyses the constitutional reform mandate set out in Morocco’s 2011 Constitution, inspired by the recommendations of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER), and examines the subsequent process of constitutionalization and legislative development of judicial reform, assessing the actual degree to which those recommendations have been incorporated into the Moroccan legal system. The paper was presented within Working Group 11, “Legislative Transformations, Civil Society, and Authoritarianism in the Post-Arab Spring Maghreb.”
José Luis Salido Medina, Projects Coordinator at the Euro-Arab Foundation, presented on Thursday, September 10 the paper “The Spanish Far Right: Analysis Through a Proposed Conceptual Framework,” part of Working Group 6, “The Far Right of the 21st Century: The Genesis of National Populism and the Rise of the Populist Radical Right.” The study proposes an original analytical framework for ideologically classifying the different actors of the Spanish far right, from its most extreme expressions to its radical ones, based on an examination of political platforms, audiovisual content, and parties’ official websites.
Javier Montilla, a researcher at the Euro-Arab Foundation, also presented on Thursday, September 10 the paper “Informational Interference in the Contemporary International System: State of the Art and Analytical Challenges,” in Working Group 4, “World Disorder: New Threats and the Proliferation of Disruptive Actors.” The paper offers a critical review of the strategic use of disinformation as a tool of foreign interference, drawing on analytical frameworks such as hybrid operations, influence operations, and the concept of foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), with the aim of identifying conceptual gaps and proposing analytical challenges for its study from the field of International Relations.
