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This book provides an account of how the European Union has responded to the emergence of a new Middle East in the wake of the Arab spring and how far the EU has changed its foreign policies towards the Middle East and Africa. It explores the impact European policies and whether it has succeeded in meeting the challenge of the Arab Spring
List of contents
- 1: Introduction: the challenge of a new Middle East
- 2: Five analytical narratives
- 3: The redrawn contours of the Middle East
- 4: Prior to the upheavals
- 5: Redemption: helping transitions
- 6: Revisionist reflex: hindering transitions
- 7: The fading spectre of radicalism?
- 8: Syria, Iran and geopolitical upheavals
- 9: Libya: conflict and reconstruction
- 10: Economic and energy interests
- 11: The Arab-Israeli conflict: catalyst?
- 12: Conclusions
About the author
Richard Youngs is senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a professor of international relations at the University of Warwick. He was previously director of the think-tank FRIDE; an EU Marie Curie Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for International Relations; and senior analyst at the UK Foreign Office. He is author of seven previous books on different aspects of EU foreign policy, the Middle East and democratization.
Summary
This book provides an account of how the European Union has responded to the emergence of a new Middle East in the wake of the Arab spring and how far the EU has changed its foreign policies towards the Middle East and Africa. It explores the impact European policies and whether it has succeeded in meeting the challenge of the Arab Spring
