Disciplinary debates about the challenge of liberal democracy in the Mediterranean suggest
that the underlying constraints in the region, such as the nature of authoritarian regimes …

Abstract The European Union's policies towards autocratic regimes have come under
renewed scrutiny following the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) …

The triumph of Islamist parties in a string of post 'Arab Spring'elections fromMorocco to Egypt
has been greeted with mixed feeling in European capitals. Whilesome have welcomed them …

Policy implications aside, assessing the EU's involvement in the Mediterranean region
necessitates a reconsideration of the impact and limits of the so-called 'normative …

ABSTRACT The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) has been furnished with a more
ambitious institutional structure compared to the Barcelona Process, in the hope that this will …

This chapter focuses on three key groupings: European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP)
countries' governments, public opinion and civil society in ENP countries, and the European …

By analysing case studies through the lens of new constructivist Institutionalist perspective,
this book sheds new light on the failure of EU policies in the Mediterranean. It suggests that …

What drives European foreign policy towards the wider Mediterranean and Middle East
region? This collection takes an innovative approach to answering this question, by …

This chapter provides a brief survey of the Swedish, Arab relations in the Cold War period. It
explores the Sweden's initiative-taking in the framework of the Barcelona Process, the Union …

In the beginning of this book, Noel Parker introduces a “positive theory of marginality,”
explicating core categories for understanding centermargin relations. Europe's capacity to …