Negotiating the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership

Negotiating the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
Author: Ricardo Gomez
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2018-01-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351777068

This title was first published in 2003. In this study Ricardo Gomez traces the origins of the external Mediterranean policy of the European Union (EU) and examines in detail the negotiations that shaped the policy and its impact. Combining historical analysis with case studies of the Euro-Med partnership initiative, EU policy on Algeria and the EU's involvement in the Middle East peace process, he covers a diverse array of issues that will appeal to scholars across a variety of sub-disciplines of political science and international relations.

Contested State Identities and Regional Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Area

Contested State Identities and Regional Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Area
Author: Raffaella A. Del Sarto
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2006-07-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1403982856

Del Sarto argues that internal disputes over national identity limit the ability of states to participate in regional forums. This is a close look at problems faced in negotiating the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) as a regional security project, with particular attention to case studies of Israel, Egypt and Morocco.

Negotiating the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership

Negotiating the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
Author: Ricardo Gomez
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2017-11-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781138711525

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 European Union Foreign Policy and the Concept of Strategic Action -- 2 A Brief History of EU Mediterranean Policy -- 3 Old Wine in New Bottles? The Renovated Mediterranean Policy and the Euro-Mediterranean Agreements -- 4 The Barcelona Process -- 5 The Politics of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Theory and Practice -- 6 Influence Without Power? The EU and the Middle East Peace Process -- 7 The EU and the Algeria Crisis -- 8 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index

Arab Perceptions of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership

Arab Perceptions of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
Author: Mohammad El-Sayed Selim
Publisher: Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2001-10-10
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9948000137

Although most Arab countries have endorsed the European Union's proposal for an Euro-Mediterranean Partnership in principle, they also harbor serious reservations about its conceptual and security aspects and its future impact on their economies and on the peace process in the Middle East. The main concern is that the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Zone and its related rules of socio-economic conduct would expose fragile Arab industries to strong external competition and destroy indigenous enterprise. As long as the EU continues to follow a one-sided approach, with differential treatment for Israeli and Arab partners, the Arabs will continue to be ambivalent partners in the Barcelona process. This is evident from the cases of Tunisia and Morocco, which have signed partnership agreements with the EU but are now expressing serious doubts about the viability of the process. Further, the EU's concept of politico-security cooperation is geared toward conflict prevention, crisis management, and the introduction of CBMs, rather than on conflict resolution and the establishment of a balanced strategic system in the Mediterranean. The EU's responses to these Arab perceptions and misgivings will decide the future success of the EMP. It may be concluded that if the EU persists in its self-centered approach to Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, the EMP project is unlikely to materialize. This is particularly applicable to the economic partnership, which must be based on technology transfer and infrastructure support rather than trade liberalization, and to the security partnership, which should focus on conflict resolution and strategic balance rather than on maintaining the status quo.

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
Author: Richard Gillespie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135253897

Established in 1995, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership aims to create a free trade area including 30 countries and 800 million people by early in the 21st century. This book offers an assessment of the Partnership and its aims.

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Pros and Cons

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Pros and Cons
Author: Hani H. Habeeb
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781581126099

This book is a historical document, a disputed analysis and evidence of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership as introduced by the Barcelona Declaration. It is an account of the unprecedented and unrivalled negotiations between the Euro-Mediterranean partners and an evaluation of their achievements. It is also an account of the obstacles faced in the transformation of the Euro-Mediterranean region into one of peace, security, stability and prosperity to ensure the realisation of a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East on the basis of the international terms of reference, democratic principles, the establishment of a free trade zone, a market economy system and the participation of civil society. The book addresses several questions which aim to determine whether the Partnership is an extension of the crusades and the Balfour Declaration, the result of international transformations, a reflection of diversity, or a real threat to the security, economy and culture of the Arab world, aimed at Arab identity and the perpetration of division amongst the Arab world through the creation of a multinational regional system identified as the Western model for an Eastern-Mediterranean system that will ensure the integration of Israel and the creation of a separate phase of rupture and alienation within the history of Arab civilisation. Similarly, this book argues whether the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, globalisation, imperialist alliances and civil society are multiple manifestations of a single phenomenon to insure Western supremacy and strategic expansion, and the exploitation of the Mediterranean region. Or, whether the Partnership is the strategic Arab-European choice needed at this particular moment in history in order to galvanise an effective European political and economic role in the development, and economic, technological and civil evolution of the Arab world.

Perspectives on Development: the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership

Perspectives on Development: the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
Author: George Joffe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2023-05-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000949869

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Initiative, launched by the Barcelona Conference in 1995, is the most ambitious project to date directed at comprehensive prosperity and security in the Mediterranean region. Yet the assumptions on which it is based are untried and untested. This study seeks to analyse what they are and to draw some conclusions as to the potential of the Initiative for success by comparing it with other experiences of regional develoment.

Joint Ownership in EU-Tunisia Relations

Joint Ownership in EU-Tunisia Relations
Author: Federica Zardo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2019-09-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030307999

This book provides an in-depth analysis of EU-Tunisia negotiations during the last three decades to understand what ‘joint ownership’ means in Euro-Mediterranean relations. The principle of joint ownership often figures in the EU’s public discourse of the EU and other international actors. Yet, it has been scarcely conceptualised and there is little research on which factors determine its presence or lack thereof. The book contributes to its definition, highlighting its evolving nature and intersubjective dimension. The author further explains how bargaining rules, practices, and procedures affect joint ownership by constraining or empowering actors, and shaping their expectations about which options they perceive are possible during the negotiations. Negotiation analysis proves useful for showing how, and to what extent, the interests of both sides eventually feature in Euro-Mediterranean agreements and enables scholars to bring back third countries' agency and perceptions into the study of the EU's external relations.

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
Author: Markus Hahn
Publisher: Diplomica Verlag
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2009-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3836671956

Im Jahr 1995, beschlossen die EU-15 sowie zw lf ihrer s dlichen Nachbarn in Barcelona die Euro-Mediterrane Partnerschaft, den sogenannten Barcelona Prozess. Diese Vereinbarung beinhaltet Zusammenarbeit in politischer und wirtschaftlicher sowie in kultureller Hinsicht. Ziel war die Schaffung eines gemeinsamen Raumes des Friedens, der Stabilit t und des Wohlstands im gesamten Mittelmeerraum. Die vorliegende Studie diskutiert anhand des Barcelona Prozesses das Konzept der EU als normative Kraft und hinterfragt dessen G ltigkeit anhand einiger Grundannahmen der Theorie des Politischen Neorealismus. Demokratief rderung, Euro-Mediterrane Handelsbeziehungen und Migration sind Politikfelder, die im Rahmen dieser Studie n her beleuchtet werden sollen. Das Konzept der EU als normative Kraft des Guten nimmt tats chlich eine wichtige Rolle im Rahmen des offiziellen EU-Sprachgebrauchs ein, deckt sich jedoch nicht mit der Realit t der Beziehungen der EU zu ihren s dlichen Nachbarn. In 1995, the EU 15 and twelve Mediterranean states concluded the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. This agreement involves cooperation in political, economic and cultural matters. It aims at creating a common area of peace, stability and prosperity. This study discusses the concept of the EU as a 'normative' actor and questions its validity. In doing so, it relies on a neo-realist analysis. Democracy promotion, Euro-Mediterranean trade relations and migration are policy areas which, each for its own reasons, deserve special attention in the framework of the Barcelona process. This paper reviews the reality of Euro-Mediterranean relations and compares them with official EU documentation to demonstrate that the concept of the EU as a benign 'normative' actor suffers from severe shortcomings.