Arab Spring Challenges for Democracy and Security in the Mediterranean

ISBN-13: 9781138790148 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 206 str.

Patricia Bauer

Opis

This volume presents essential aspects of Mediterranean politics to be reconsidered in the light of the Arab upheavals since 2010. Taking as its focal point the question of how far European-Mediterranean relations are challenged by the various developments, this book explores the relationship between security and democracy within the Arab countries and in European-Mediterranean relations.

Spis treści

1. European–Mediterranean Security and the Arab Spring: Changes and Challenges  2. The New Neighborhood Policy of the EU: An Appropriate Response to the Arab Spring?  3. Rethinking the New ENP: A Vision for an Enhanced European Role in the Arab Revolutions  4. EU Democracy Assistance Discourse in Its New Response to a Changing Neighbourhood  5. EU Democracy Assistance in the Mediterranean: What Relationship with the Arab Uprisings?  6. What Can Pro-Democracy Activists in Arab Countries Expect from the European Union? Lessons from the Union’s Relations with Israel  7. Mediterranean Security Revisited  8. EU Counterterrorism and the Southern Mediterranean Countries after the Arab Spring: New Potential for Cooperation?  9. The Arab Uprisings and the EU’s Migration Policies—The Cases of Egypt, Libya, and Syria  10. The Relevance of Security Sector Reform in Humanitarian Intervention: The Case of the European Union in the Mediterranean

O autorze

Patricia Bauer teaches Political Science at the European Peace University in Austria since 2012. From 2007 to January 2012 she was Guest Professor for International Relations and European Studies at Cairo University, Egypt. Before she was Assistant Professor at the University of Osnabrück. Her current fields of specialization are the Euro-Mediterranean relations, the external relations of the European Union, and security studies.