The European Union in the Middle East Peace Process. A Civilian Power?

The European Union in the Middle East Peace Process. A Civilian Power?
Author: Beste Isleyen
Publisher: ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2012-05-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3838258967

What kind of a power is the EU? What are the main factors that have provided the EU with the opportunities to construct its role in international politics? Which theoretical approaches are appropriate for the conceptualization of the EU foreign policy activity? Does the EU operate as a civilian power? And what is a civilian power? What are the key indicators for the 'Civilian Power Europe'? Beste İşleyen's study offers a comprehensive overview of the academic debate on the 'Civilian Power Europe' and questions whether the concept is applicable to past and present involvement of the EU in the Middle East peace process.

The European Union in the Middle East Peace Process

The European Union in the Middle East Peace Process
Author: Beste Işleyen
Publisher: An Interdisciplinary Series of the Centre for Intercultural and European Studies - CINTEUS
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2008
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

What kind of a power is the EU? What are the main factors that have provided the EU with the opportunities to construct its role in international politics? Which theoretical approaches are appropriate for the conceptualization of the EU foreign policy activity? Does the EU operate as a civilian power? And what is a civilian power? What are the key indicators for the 'Civilian Power Europe'? Beste İşleyen's study offers a comprehensive overview of the academic debate on the 'Civilian Power Europe' and questions whether the concept is applicable to past and present involvement of the EU in the Middle East peace process.

Civilian Power

Civilian Power
Author: Hannah Boie
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2010
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3643105908

What exactly is the power that is exercised in civilian power relations? How and where does it manifest itself, and how does it shape the reality of interaction between states? This book provides an original look at civilian power, taking into account fundamental power theory as well as current debates on this subject. In this framework, it presents a comparative analysis of Euro-Israeli and Euro-Egyptian relations. The author thus makes an innovative contribution to power theory by offering new insights into the role of civilian power in Euro-Mediterranean relations.

The Middle East Peace Process and the EU

The Middle East Peace Process and the EU
Author: Taylan Özgür Kaya
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-12-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786734982

EU policy-makers have in the past decade endeavoured to formulate a substantial redefinition of the organisation's international ambitions. Attempting to carve out a new role as a key foreign and security policy actor in international politics, the EU has been involved in peace negotiations across the globe. Here, Taylan Ozgur Kaya looks at how this is enacted, with particular reference to the Middle East peace process. Expanding its political, diplomatic, economic and security role in the region, the EU, whilst still being the junior partner to the US, has increasingly played a more conspicuous role in the attempts to resolve (or at least mediate) the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Bearing this in mind, Kaya examines to what extent the EU manages to live up to its self-image as a key player in conflict resolution and crisis management in the region and beyond. With the financial and diplomatic future of Europe ever more in the spotlight, this book will appeal both to researchers of the Peace Process and to policy-makers.

European Union Policy towards the Arab-Israeli Peace Process

European Union Policy towards the Arab-Israeli Peace Process
Author: C. Musu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2010-02-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 023027465X

What are the achievements, the limits and the failures of the EU's involvement in the Arab-Israeli conflict? This book sets out to answer this question by analysing the development of European policy towards the conflict over the last forty years.

From Civilian Power to Superpower?

From Civilian Power to Superpower?
Author: R. Whitman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 257
Release: 1998-04-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230375952

From Civilian Power to Superpower? asserts that a new, distinctive and significant actor has entered the international system. The text explores how the European Union has become a significant international actor without transforming itself into a nation-state. The international context, within which the Union now operates, and the instruments, now available at its disposal, have undergone a convergence to create circumstances in which the relative significance of the Union and its uniqueness in the international system has been enhanced.

The Foreign Policy of the European Union

The Foreign Policy of the European Union
Author: Federiga M. Bindi
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0815722524

"Explores European foreign policy and the degree of European Union success in proposing itself as a valid international actor, drawing from the expertise of scholars and practitioners in many disciplines. Addresses issues past and present, theoretical and practice-oriented, and country- and region-specific"-- Provided by publisher.

Europe's Foreign and Security Policy

Europe's Foreign and Security Policy
Author: Michael E. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521538619

The emergence of a common security and foreign policy has been one of the most contentious issues accompanying the integration of the European Union. In this book, Michael Smith examines the specific ways foreign policy cooperation has been institutionalized in the EU, the way institutional development affects cooperative outcomes in foreign policy, and how those outcomes lead to new institutional reforms. Smith explains the evolution and performance of the institutional procedures of the EU using a unique analytical framework, supported by extensive empirical evidence drawn from interviews, case studies, official documents and secondary sources. His perceptive and well-informed analysis covers the entire history of EU foreign policy cooperation, from its origins in the late 1960s up to the start of the 2003 constitutional convention. Demonstrating the importance and extent of EU foreign/security policy, the book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and policy-makers.