The Foreign Policies of the EU's Mediterranean States and Applicant Countries in the 1990's

The Foreign Policies of the EU's Mediterranean States and Applicant Countries in the 1990's
Author: Theodore Couloumbis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349271616

The book analyses the foreign policies of EU Mediterranean states and applicants in the context of wider EU-Mediterranean relations. It provides a unique comparative analysis of current members and applicant Mediterranean states in the 1990s at a time when EU processes of enlargement and integration raise fundamental needs to define interests of the EU in its Southern and Eastern relationships.

Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy

Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy
Author: Ben Tonra
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780719060021

This text reviews a variety of approaches to the study of the European Union's foreign policy. Much analysis of EU foreign policy contains implicit theoretical assumptions about the nature of the EU and its member states, their inter-relationships, the international system in which they operate and the nature and direction of European integration. In many instances such assumptions, given that they are not discussed openly, curtail rather than facilitate debate. The purpose of this book is to open up this field of enquiry so that students, observers and analysts of EU foreign policy can review a broad range of tools and theoretical templates from which the development and the trajectory of the EU's foreign policy can be studied.

Euro-Mediterranean Security: A Search for Partnership

Euro-Mediterranean Security: A Search for Partnership
Author: Sven Biscop
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351771639

This title was first published in 2003. This work provides a clearer understanding of the EU's approach towards security in the Mediterranean. After examining the EU's interests and the potential threats to security in the region, it analyzes EU security policy towards the region as a whole, through the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, and towards all disputes and conflicts in the area. It recommends opening up the European Security and Defence Policy to Mediterranean participation, in order to establish a deep and equitable security partnership between both shores. The book argues that this way the EU could implement its innovative comprehensive and co-operative approach to security. Rather than focusing on the military aspect alone, this approach takes into account all dimensions of security (political, socio-economic, cultural and ecological) and is based on partnership rather than confrontation. It therefore contrasts quite sharply with the policies advocated in the US National Security Strategy.

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: 243
Release: 2012-12-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786724987

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.

The Politics of Regional Identity

The Politics of Regional Identity
Author: Michelle Pace
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2005-09-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134315597

A keen analysis of the impact of European regionalism in the Mediterranean, focusing on the politics of representation and constructions of identity. The Mediterranean - as a region, as an area of EU policy and as a place on the fringe of a rapidly integrating Europe - has been a theoretically under-researched area. Containing empirical research on Greece, Malta and Morocco, this theory-led investigation into the political effects of the Mediterranean's symbolic geography, complements work done on the constitution of entities such as nations, Europe and the West. The Politics of Regional Identity draws on the field of critical IR and critical geopolitics to examine both the theoretical and empirical manifestations of these changing geopolitical images and discourses. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of politics, international relations and the European Union.

A New Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Identity

A New Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Identity
Author: Stefania Panebianco
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135772681

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership was formed in 1995 in Barcelona. In this volume, concepts of democracy, civil society, human rights and dialogue among civilizations in the Mediterranean region are addressed in the context of the new Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.

The Emerging Euro-Mediterranean System

The Emerging Euro-Mediterranean System
Author: Dimitris Xenakis
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719060137

Focusing on the principal challenges facing the Euro-Mediterranean partnership since the signing of the Barcelona Declaration in November 1995, this study assesses past European policies towards the region.

The Foreign Policies of European Union Member States

The Foreign Policies of European Union Member States
Author: Ian Manners
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780719057793

This comparative analysis of the foreign policies of European Union member states includes comprehensive coverage of the post-Maastricht period and the three newest members of the EU. In the only comparative study of its kind since 1976, the book analyzes the dual impact of the Maastricht Treaty on the European Union, and the post-Cold War environment on the foreign policy processes of the EU’s member states. The book argues for a new approach to the foreign policy analysis of EU states that recognizes the fundamental changes that membership brings after the Cold War, but also acknowledges the diverse role of policies which states seek to retain or advance as being “special.”

Adjusting to EU Enlargement

Adjusting to EU Enlargement
Author: Constantine A. Stephanou
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781781959084

Before the latest EU enlargement substantial changes in the integration process were predicted as a result of the accession of 10 new member states, with some forecasting cataclysmic consequences. This book, the first ex post assessment of EU enlargement, provides evidence to the contrary, while also providing examples in which the new members have been able to influence the EU policy output with their liberal attitudes on economic and social policy.

European Union and New Regionalism

European Union and New Regionalism
Author: Mario Telò
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351784986

This title was first published in 2001. This is a collection of papers that look at the structure of the global economy, and its changing paradigms over the years. The contributors look at how the classic concept of state - autonomous, sovereign and freed of all constraint - never really reflected the reality of the international scene, despite the role it has played in realist and neo-realist theory for many decades. Instead, they consider that the political, social and economic characteristics originally attributed to states seem increasingly to be expressed through regional constructs. The papers in this volume show that even within regionalism there are a variety of different models that exist, and examine five of those models: the European Union; Mercosul-Mercosur; the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA); the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN); and the South African Development Community (SADC).