The Arab Spring - Re-Balancing the Greater Euro-Mediterranean?

Beginning in 2010, there has been a consolidating cooperation among existing powers in the Euro-Mediterranean in face of the rapid de-stabilization of the Arab region. This fact alone accelerated the hesitant responses by the EU towards emerging hegemons, particularly Russia and China, who in-turn applied traditional mechanisms of increasing regional economic influence to bolster their political influence, but with the difference that a normative influence is missing, in contrast to the EU's and US' influence, which is strongly centered on universal norms pertaining to political, economic and social-cultural norms. This book examines the Arab Spring not only from its intra but also inter-regional geo-political and strategic implications by analyzing the Euro-Mediterranean region following the onset of the Arab Spring. It aims to connect the broader economic and political strands of power shifts that have taken place since the Arab Spring, making it of interests to political scientists and policy-makers concerned with the Mediterranean and Euro-Arab relations.

List of contents

Introduction-A Euro-Meditterranean Regional Security Complex?.- Sectors of Security.- Levels of Security-Intra-Regional Level.- .Levels of Security - Inter-Regional Level: Part A: Select State Actors.- Levels of Security-Inter-Regional Level: Part B: Intergovernmental Organizations: Global Government-Leading From Behind or Through Consensus?.- Conclusions: Adressing Regional Security Threats "Locally, "Regionally," and "Globally".

Product details

• Authors: Astrid B Boening, Astrid B. Boening
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319346908
• ISBN: 978-3-31-934690-8
• No. of pages: 130
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 234 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 236 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 130 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; B, EU, Europäische Union, Political Science, Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften, auseinandersetzen, Political Science and International Studies, Comparative Politics, European Integration, Economic systems & structures, EU (European Union), International institutions, European Economic Community literature, European Economic Integration