By examining a range of policy areas, this book aims to assess and qualify the claim that EU policies towards the Arab Mediterranean after the uprisings are predominantly marked by continuity with the past. This is attributed to the fact that the EU still acts with the aim of maximising its own security by preserving stability in the region. The book explores how security, stability and the link between them the security-stability nexus are considered as the master frame shaping the EUs approach towards the Southern Mediterranean and how this affects policy enactment. The book shows that the security-stability nexus has at least been reframed in the wake of the uprisings, but also that more change has occurred in the redefinition of the master frame than in its actual enactment. The framing and reframing of the security-stability nexus, before and after the Arab uprisings, depends on the policy area under consideration, the variety of actors involved, and the forms of their involvement. This is also crucially because of the different disposition towards the EU of prominent actors in Arab Mediterranean partner countries, which points towards the EUs increasing difficulties to achieve its goals in its near abroad.
This book was originally published as a special issue of
Mediterranean Politics.
Introduction - Framing and reframing the EUs engagement with the
Mediterranean: Examining the security-stability nexus before and after the
Arab uprisings Roberto Roccu and Benedetta Voltolini
1. From Neglect to
Selective Engagement: The EU Approach to Rural Development in the Arab
Mediterranean after the Arab Uprisings Christos Kourtelis
2. Banking on
ordoliberalism? Security, stability and profits in EUs economic reform
promotion in Egypt Roberto Roccu
3. EU democracy promotion and the dominance
of the securitystability nexus Assem Dandashly
4. The EU and Islamist
parties in Tunisia and Egypt after the Arab uprisings: A story of selective
engagement Benedetta Voltolini and Silvia Colombo
5. Counterterrorism and
democracy: EU policy in the Middle East and North Africa after the uprisings
Vincent Durac
6. Thinking energy outside the frame? Reframing and misframing
in Euro-Mediterranean energy relations Anna Herranz-Surrallés
7. Changing the
path? EU migration governance after the Arab spring Andrew Geddes and Leila
Hadj-Abdou
8. EU religious engagement in the Southern Mediterranean: Much ado
about nothing? Sarah Wolff
9. Security and stability reframed, selective
engagement maintained? The EU in the Mediterranean after the Arab uprisings
Roberto Roccu and Benedetta Voltolini
Roberto Roccu is Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy in the Department of European & International Studies at Kings College London, UK. His research focuses on the international political economy of the Middle East and North Africa, and on the EUs reform promotion in the region.
Benedetta Voltolini is Lecturer in European Foreign Policy in the Department of European and International Studies at Kings College London, UK. Her research focuses on EU foreign policy towards the Middle East and North Africa, on lobbying and framing in EU external relations.
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