EU Security Missions and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This book explores and analyses the various factors that affected the formulation of the common EU policy towards the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP), as well as the specifics of the process by which the EU created EUPOL COPPS and EUBAM Rafah. It answers two central questions. First, why and how did the EU decide to create and deploy these missions? Second, where do these two missions fit into the general EU approach to the conflict in the Middle East?
Based on confidential interviews with various actors in the process, uniquely granted to the author, it reveals the mechanics of decision-making behind the scenes and argues that the EUs decision to expand its role in the MEPP, through the creation of the two missions, was closely related to the EUs defined common interests in the Middle East. Further it shows the missions were, mainly, the result of the EUs already established approaches to further its role in the international political arena.
This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of European foreign policy, EU politics, Middle East politics and studies, foreign policy analysis, and, more broadly, international relations.
Amr Nasr El-Din is a former DAAD scholar at Universitt Osnabrck, Germany, where he earned his PhD. He is currently a Diplomat at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt.
Routledge Studies in European Foreign Policy
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A PhD dissertation presented to the University of Osnabrck, Department of Cultural Studies and Social Sciences, 2016
Referees: Professor Dr. Ingeborg Tmmel, Professor Dr. Ulrich Schneckener and Professor Dr. Stephan Stetter
First and foremost, my deepest gratitude to my beloved and always caring mother, Sanaa Seleha, for making me who I am today.
My loving thanks to my dearest wife, Heba Yasser, for putting up with the long process of writing this manuscript.
For putting up with me in general, thanks go to my adorable uncle Ahmed Seleha and aunts Azza and Pretty Selaiha, to my father, El-Sayed Nasr El-Din, and in loving memory of my dear grandmother Ihtiram El-Borhamy.
For their invaluable help with the manuscript, Nehad Selaiha and Sarah Enany. Thank you.
I am forever grateful to my lifetime friends turned family in Gttigen: Udo, Henriate, Anna and Pia and my always-caring Osanbrckers: Frau Dierk, Herr Maunz, Jessica, Cordula, Wonjae, Julia and Maria.
Finally, I would like to extend a special thanks to Professor Dr. Ingeborg Tmmel, who not only guided me academically, but also enthusiastically helped me navigate my days in Germany, and I would like also to thank Professor Dr. Stephan Stetter, whose always insightful remarks helped me improve my work, and Professor Dr. Ulrich Schneckener for his support.