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This is the first comprehensive analysis of the Union for the
Mediterranean (UfM), launched in 2008 amid great controversy within
the European Union. Affected from the start by negative fallout
from the failure of Middle East peace initiatives, its inadequacies
have been underlined by the popular movement for regime change in
the Arab world. Leading experts provide here the first integrated
analysis of the significance and shortcomings of the UfM. Beginning
with critical questioning of the motives and institutional logics
informing this venture, the collection proceeds to analyse its key
actors, as well as major policy dossiers such as energy and
development. The book explains how and why an initiative aiming to
depoliticize Euro-Mediterranean relations in fact proved wide open
to political discord, bringing huge disruption to UfM activity.
While some aspects are found to have merit, the volume is critical
of the way in which EU Mediterranean policy became driven by a
narrow range of national interests, lost sight of the political
objectives of the preceding Barcelona Process and became
overwhelmingly bilateral in approach, at the expense of more
ambitious region-building efforts. It concludes by highlighting the
need to reform the EU Mediterranean policy framework in the light
of the Arab uprisings of 2011. This book was published as a special
issue of Mediterranean Politics.
Focusing on key countries and topics, this book looks at Europe’s
involvement in the occupation of Palestinian territories. What has
been Europe’s role in the occupation of Palestinian territories
since 1967? How have European actors responded, countered and/or
supported the occupation? The international context of this
exceptionally long occupation shows a complex web of denunciations,
but also and especially complicit engagements and indifference. The
book looks at the perspective of international law, before
analysing the European Union and key European countries (France,
Germany, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom). It also embraces
different perspectives, from the debate on campus to the role of
European multinational companies to the conceptual approach of the
World Bank. While much of the literature focuses on Israel,
Palestine and the United States, this volume by leading experts
adds a very important piece to the puzzle: the European dimension.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special
issue of the journal, Global Affairs.
Focusing on key countries and topics, this book looks at Europe's
involvement in the occupation of Palestinian territories. What has
been Europe's role in the occupation of Palestinian territories
since 1967? How have European actors responded, countered and/or
supported the occupation? The international context of this
exceptionally long occupation shows a complex web of denunciations,
but also and especially complicit engagements and indifference. The
book looks at the perspective of international law, before
analysing the European Union and key European countries (France,
Germany, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom). It also embraces
different perspectives, from the debate on campus to the role of
European multinational companies to the conceptual approach of the
World Bank. While much of the literature focuses on Israel,
Palestine and the United States, this volume by leading experts
adds a very important piece to the puzzle: the European dimension.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special
issue of the journal, Global Affairs.
This book aims to show practice approaches at work in the fields of
European diplomacy and security broadly conceived. It sets out to
provide readers with a hands-on sense of where research on social
practices and European diplomacy, security and foreign policy
currently stands. The book reviews how practice approaches have
evolved in International Relations (IR) and brings together an
unique set of contributions which highlights how insights from
practice approaches can be applied to advance research on a number
of key issues in these fields. While the debate about practices in
IR goes beyond the case of diplomacy, the latter has become a
showcase for the former and this book continues the debate on
practices and diplomacy by zooming in on the European Union.
Examples of issues covered include the evolution of EU-NATO
relations seen from the perspective of communities of practice,
burden sharing as an anchoring practice for European states'
involvement in crisis management operations, the practical
knowledge shaping the EU's responses to the Arab Uprisings, agency
as accomplished in and through EU counter-piracy practices and the
political resistance to Israeli occupation and the non-official
recognition of Palestine performed by EU diplomats. Thus, by
focusing on specific practices and analytical mechanisms that
contribute to understand the transformations of European diplomacy,
security and foreign policy, this book provides essential readings
to anyone interested in innovative ways to grasp the contemporary
challenges that face the EU and its member states. The chapters
originally published as a special issue of European Security.
This collection of research papers explores the impact of the Arab
uprisings on the politics and political economy of foreign aid
provision in the MENA region. Contributions focus on the foreign
assistance policies and strategies of key donors (United States,
Europe, Gulf countries and Turkey), and on the relationship between
donors and recipients of foreign aid in a select set of MENA cases
(Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine and to a lesser extent Morocco). Despite
widespread rhetoric among lead donors pledging to support the
transformational potential of the Arab uprisings, the contributions
find a more complex pattern in foreign aid provision since 2011.
Among Arab donors, who have played a significant role as providers
of aid to states most affected by mass protests, trends in foreign
assistance reflect the competing priorities of donors, and their
willingness to politicize aid provision in pursuit of their
strategic interests. Among Western donors, authors find a high
degree of continuity. Chapters that focus on Western donors seek to
account for continuity on the part of Western governments and the
EU at a moment of profound transformational potential. Two factors,
bureaucratization and securitization, capture most of the
explanations provided, which take into account a variety of local
dimensions as well. Contributions also discuss the changing
assistance environment, namely the globalization of foreign
assistance, the complex bureaucratic arrangements presiding over
the delivery of European and US aid, and the role of regional and
international non-democracies in the provision of foreign
assistance. This book was published as a special issue of
Mediterranean Politics.
This collection of research papers explores the impact of the Arab
uprisings on the politics and political economy of foreign aid
provision in the MENA region. Contributions focus on the foreign
assistance policies and strategies of key donors (United States,
Europe, Gulf countries and Turkey), and on the relationship between
donors and recipients of foreign aid in a select set of MENA cases
(Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine and to a lesser extent Morocco). Despite
widespread rhetoric among lead donors pledging to support the
transformational potential of the Arab uprisings, the contributions
find a more complex pattern in foreign aid provision since 2011.
Among Arab donors, who have played a significant role as providers
of aid to states most affected by mass protests, trends in foreign
assistance reflect the competing priorities of donors, and their
willingness to politicize aid provision in pursuit of their
strategic interests. Among Western donors, authors find a high
degree of continuity. Chapters that focus on Western donors seek to
account for continuity on the part of Western governments and the
EU at a moment of profound transformational potential. Two factors,
bureaucratization and securitization, capture most of the
explanations provided, which take into account a variety of local
dimensions as well. Contributions also discuss the changing
assistance environment, namely the globalization of foreign
assistance, the complex bureaucratic arrangements presiding over
the delivery of European and US aid, and the role of regional and
international non-democracies in the provision of foreign
assistance. This book was published as a special issue of
Mediterranean Politics.
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the Union for the
Mediterranean (UfM), launched in 2008 amid great controversy within
the European Union. Affected from the start by negative fallout
from the failure of Middle East peace initiatives, its inadequacies
have been underlined by the popular movement for regime change in
the Arab world. Leading experts provide here the first integrated
analysis of the significance and shortcomings of the UfM. Beginning
with critical questioning of the motives and institutional logics
informing this venture, the collection proceeds to analyse its key
actors, as well as major policy dossiers such as energy and
development. The book explains how and why an initiative aiming to
depoliticize Euro-Mediterranean relations in fact proved wide open
to political discord, bringing huge disruption to UfM activity.
While some aspects are found to have merit, the volume is critical
of the way in which EU Mediterranean policy became driven by a
narrow range of national interests, lost sight of the political
objectives of the preceding Barcelona Process and became
overwhelmingly bilateral in approach, at the expense of more
ambitious region-building efforts. It concludes by highlighting the
need to reform the EU Mediterranean policy framework in the light
of the Arab uprisings of 2011. This book was published as a special
issue of Mediterranean Politics.
This book aims to show practice approaches at work in the fields of
European diplomacy and security broadly conceived. It sets out to
provide readers with a hands-on sense of where research on social
practices and European diplomacy, security and foreign policy
currently stands. The book reviews how practice approaches have
evolved in International Relations (IR) and brings together an
unique set of contributions which highlights how insights from
practice approaches can be applied to advance research on a number
of key issues in these fields. While the debate about practices in
IR goes beyond the case of diplomacy, the latter has become a
showcase for the former and this book continues the debate on
practices and diplomacy by zooming in on the European Union.
Examples of issues covered include the evolution of EU-NATO
relations seen from the perspective of communities of practice,
burden sharing as an anchoring practice for European states'
involvement in crisis management operations, the practical
knowledge shaping the EU's responses to the Arab Uprisings, agency
as accomplished in and through EU counter-piracy practices and the
political resistance to Israeli occupation and the non-official
recognition of Palestine performed by EU diplomats. Thus, by
focusing on specific practices and analytical mechanisms that
contribute to understand the transformations of European diplomacy,
security and foreign policy, this book provides essential readings
to anyone interested in innovative ways to grasp the contemporary
challenges that face the EU and its member states. The chapters
originally published as a special issue of European Security.
Recent efforts by the United States and its allies to promote
democracy, security, and stability in the Middle East owe much to
the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) - also known as the
Barcelona Process - an important region-building plan in the
Mediterranean region since 1995. The Convergence of Civilizations
represents the output of an innovative and much needed
collaborative project focused on the EMP. Editors Emanuel Adler,
Beverly Crawford, Federica Bicchi, and Rafaella A. Del Sarto have
set out to show that regional security and stability may be
achieved through a cultural approach based on the concept of
regional identity construction, and aim to take stock of the EMP in
relation to this goal. The contributors to this collection focus on
the obstacles Mediterranean region construction faces due to post
9/11 regional and global events, the difficulties of the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process, tensions between the EU and the
US over Iraq, and the expected consequences of EU enlargement. They
also seek to bring the EMP and region-making practices to the
attention of American scholars in order to promote a more fertile
academic exchange. Ultimately, the contributors demonstrate that
the EMP and related region-making practices, while failing so far
to promote the development of a Mediterranean regional identity and
to achieve regional stability, suggest nonetheless a viable model
for regional partnership and cooperation, and thus, for preventing
a 'clash of civilizations' in the long haul. The Convergence of
Civilizations will be an important tool for meeting the current
global challenges being faced by nation-states as well as those in
the future.
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