Twenty Years of Euro-Mediterranean Relations
The creation of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership in 1995 was seen, at the time, as a forward-thinking foreign policy which would strengthen ties between Europe and the Mediterranean Arab states. Since that time, however, almost none of this initial ambition has been translated into positive, successful policy.
Twenty years on from the creation of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (now the Union for the Mediterranean), this book collects some of the most influential articles published in the Mediterranean Politics journal since 1995 and suggests what these articles tell us about the state of relations between Europe and the Middle East. The selection of articles gives a sense of the way in which analytical debate has changed in the journals lifetime, the two decades in which the journal has been at the forefront of academic study on a variety of issues in the Mediterranean region. As such, the selection is naturally a reflection of the different periods from which the articles are selected, and, taken together, they paint a picture of how the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership has been reshaped over time.
Richard Youngs is Professor of International Relations at Warwick University, UK, and Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Twenty Years of Euro-Mediterranean Relations
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Richard Youngs
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Contents
Richard Youngs
Esther Barb
George Joff
Eberhard Kienle
Richard Gillespie
Frdric Volpi
Dorothe Schmid
Michelle Pace
Federica Bicchi & Mary Martin
Eduard Soler i Lecha
Oliver Schlumberger
Rasmus Alenius Boserup & Fabrizio Tassinari
The chapters in this book were originally published in various issues of Mediterranean Politics. When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
The Barcelona Conference: Launching Pad of a Process
Esther Barb
Mediterranean Politics, volume 1, issue 1 (Summer 1996) pp. 2542
Chapter 2
Southern Attitudes towards an Integrated Mediterranean Region
George Joff
Mediterranean Politics, volume 2, issue 1 (Summer 1997) pp. 1229
Chapter 3
Destabilization through Partnership? Euro-Mediterranean Relations after the Barcelona Declaration
Eberhard Kienle
Mediterranean Politics, volume 3, issue 2 (Autumn 1998) pp. 120
Chapter 4
Reshaping the Agenda? The Internal Politics of the Barcelona Process in the Aftermath of September 11
Richard Gillespie
Mediterranean Politics, volume 8, issue 3 (Autumn 2003) pp. 2136
Chapter 5
Regional Community Building and the Transformation of International Relations: The Case of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
Frdric Volpi
Mediterranean Politics, volume 9, issue 2 (Summer 2004) pp. 145164
Chapter 6
The Use of Conditionality in Support of Political, Economic and Social Rights: Unveiling the Euro-Mediterranean Partnerships True Hierarchy of Objectives?
Dorothe Schmid
Mediterranean Politics, volume 9, issue 3 (Autumn 2004) pp. 396421
Chapter 7
Imagining Co-presence in Euro-Mediterranean Relations: The Role of Dialogue
Michelle Pace
Mediterranean Politics, volume 10, issue 3 (November 2005) pp. 291312
Chapter 8
Talking Tough or Talking Together? European Security Discourses towards the Mediterranean
Federica Bicchi & Mary Martin
Mediterranean Politics, volume 11, issue 2 (July 2006) pp. 189207
Chapter 9
Converging, Diverging and Instrumentalizing European Security and Defence Policy in the Mediterranean
Eduard Soler i Lecha
Mediterranean Politics, volume 15, issue 2 (July 2010) pp. 231248
Chapter 10
The Ties that do not Bind: The Union for the Mediterranean and the Future of Euro-Arab Relations
Oliver Schlumberger
Mediterranean Politics, volume 16, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 135153
Chapter 11
The Return of Arab Politics and Europes Chance to Engage Anew
Rasmus Alenius Boserup & Fabrizio Tassinari
Mediterranean Politics, volume 17, issue 1 (March 2012) pp. 97103
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Esther Barb is Research Program Coordinator at the Institut Barcelona dEstudis Internacionals, and a Professor at the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Federica Bicchi is Associate Professor in International Relations of Europe at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Rasmus Alenius Boserup is Senior Researcher of Foreign Policy at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Richard Gillespie is Professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool, UK, where he is co-Director of the Europe and the World Centre. He is the founder of the Mediterranean Politics journal.
George Joff is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK, and Visiting Professor of Geography at Kings College, London, UK.
Eberhard Kienle is Director of the Institut franais du Proche-Orient, based in Beirut, Lebanon.
Mary Martin is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
