Twenty Years of Euro-Mediterranean Relations Routledge Studies in Mediterranean Politics Series

The creation of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership in 1995 was seen, at the time, as a forward-thinking foreign policy which would strengthen ties between Europe and the Mediterranean Arab states. Since that time, however, almost none of this initial ambition has been translated into positive, successful policy.

Twenty years on from the creation of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (now the Union for the Mediterranean), this book collects some of the most influential articles published in the Mediterranean Politics journal since 1995 ? and suggests what these articles tell us about the state of relations between Europe and the Middle East. The selection of articles gives a sense of the way in which analytical debate has changed in the journal?s lifetime, a lifetime which has seen the journal at the forefront of academic study on a variety of issues in the Mediterranean region. As such, the selection is naturally a reflection of the different periods from which the articles are taken, and, taken together, they paint a picture of how the Euro-Mediterranean partnership has been reshaped over time.

Introduction: Twenty Years of Euro-Mediterranean relations1. The Barcelona conference: Launching pad of a process2. Southern attitudes towards an integrated Mediterranean region3. Destabilization through partnership? Euro-Mediterranean relations after the Barcelona declaration4. Reshaping the Agenda? The Internal Politics of the Barcelona Process in the Aftermath of September 115. Regional Community Building and the Transformation of International Relations: The Case of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership6. The Use of Conditionality in Support of Political, Economic and Social Rights: Unveiling the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership’s True Hierarchy of Objectives?7. Imagining Co-presence in Euro-Mediterranean Relations: The Role of ‘Dialogue’8. Talking Tough or Talking Together? European Security Discourses towards the Mediterranean9. Converging, Diverging and Instrumentalizing European Security and Defence Policy in the Mediterranean10. The Ties that do not Bind: The Union for the Mediterranean and the Future of Euro-Arab Relations11. The Return of Arab Politics and Europe’s Change to Engage Anew

Richard Youngs is Professor of International Relations at Warwick University, UK, and senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.