Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/198399 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Citation: 
[Journal:] CES Working Papers [ISSN:] 2067-7693 [Volume:] 7 [Issue:] 2a [Publisher:] Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Centre for European Studies [Place:] Iasi [Year:] 2015 [Pages:] 489-498
Publisher: 
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Centre for European Studies, Iasi
Abstract: 
The European Union's policy towards its southern periphery in North Africa and the Middle East has sought to promote regional cooperation both between itself and the Arab partner states and, most importantly, among the Arab states. The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, and later on, the Union for the Mediterranean introduced, after decades of superficial institutionalization of Euro-Mediterranean relations, an element of novelty in the form of the regionalism it promoted and the multilateral setting it was creating. However outstanding at its debut, this experiment of „building” a Mediterranean region, where security and peaceful change would be brought about by the states' willingness to cooperate through multilateral mechanisms has failed. The EU's efforts to create a Mediterranean region have been stymied not only by what can amount to an unrealistic perception regarding intra-Arab dynamics, but also by changes in the substance of the Euro-Mediterranean institutional setting. Namely, the region-building multilateralism of the EMP has been side-lined by the pragmatic bilateralism of the UfM.
Subjects: 
bilateralism
Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
European Neighbourhood Policy
multilateralism
regionalism
region-building
Union for the Mediterranean
JEL: 
F50
F53
F54
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Document Type: 
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