Conflict, Cooperation and Leadership in the Mediterranean

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Acknowledgements
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Table of Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Graphics and Tables
• Introduction
• Mediterranean Politics
• EEC/EU Foreign Policy and the Global Mediterranean Policy
• The 5+5 Dialogue
• The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP)
• The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP)
• The Alliance of Civilizations (AoC)
• The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)
• Framing Euro-Mediterranean Politics, Political Entrepreneurs and Brokers
• Realist-Constructivism
• Political Entrepreneurship and Brokerage
• Political Entrepreneurs
• Political Brokers
• The Mediterranean: A Profitable Opportunity
• Unveiling Political Entrepreneurs and Brokers
• Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis
• Corpus Linguistics (CL)
• Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
• CL and CDA as Complementary Approaches
• Contents
• 1 Spain and the Great Gallop: Strategies of a Political Entrepreneur
• 1.1 Spain’s European Ambitions and the French Response
• 1.2 Trying to Build a New Image
• 1.3 French Reactions
• 1.4 Amateur Government Paving the Road for the Next Steps
• 1.5 A Political Entrepreneur Looking for a Strategy
• 1.6 The Spanish Gallopade: Looking for International Acknowledgement
• 1.7 The Mediterranean Card
• 1.8 The French Attitude
• 1.9 Spain: Achieving Objectives
• 1.10 Spain Sells the Mediterranean: A Threatening Political Discourse
• 2 Lights and Shadows The Assertion of Spanish Leadership in the International Arena during the Aznar Era, 1996–2004
• 2.1 Discussing the Paternity of Spain’s Foreign Policy
• 2.2 The Baseline of Spain’s New Foreign Policy
• 2.3 Aznar and the Mediterranean: The First Step
• 2.4 Aznar’s New Foreign Policy: Changing Methodology
• 2.5 Mutating Axes: The Atlantic- Mediterranean Approach
• 2.6 Aznar versus the EU? A Converging Attitude, Different Approaches
• 2.7 Aznar’s Strong Political Stances and the End of His Mandate
• 3 Zapatero’s Attempt to Reposition Spain in the Mediterraean
• 3.1 Back to the Mediterranean. Back to the Roots
• 3.2 The Alliance of Civilizations: Building on the Sand
• 3.3 A Political Broker Managing an Abstract Political Opportunity
• 3.4 Lack of Clarity and a Fainted Strategy: Missed Opportunities?
• 3.5 European Reactions
• 4 The Presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy and the Mediterranean Frustrated Ambitions, Failed Leadership
• 4.1 Jacques Chirac’s Foreign Policy and the Arab World
• 4.2 Sarkozy and the Mediterranean Window: Launching the Mediterranean Union
• 4.3 European Reactions
• 4.4 Europeanizing the Project: Rebuilding Trust
• 4.5 Initial Reactions from the South
• 4.6 Spain Becomes Home to the UfM
• 4.7 The Benefits of the Union for the Mediterranean or for the South?
• 4.8 Europe and the Future of the UfM
• 5 Migration, Security and Public Opinion in the Euro-Mediterranean Region Challenging Political Entrepreneurs and Brokers
• 5.1 General Migratory Trends
• 5.1.1 Migration in the Mediterranean
• 5.2 Gambling on the Needs and Problems of Southern Mediterranean Countries
• 5.3 Trying to Manage Migration: The Fundamental Gap
• 5.4 Migration and the Economic Cycle: Triggering National Fears, Evidencing Multilateral Deficiencies
• 5.5 Migration and Public Opinion: National Politics Challenging International Projects
• 6 The Long Cultivation of the Arab Spring
• 6.1 Making Friends by Securing the House
• 6.2 Understanding “center/s-periphery/ies” Relations and Interactions
• 6.3 Heirs, Political Mortgages and “forced” Allies
• 6.3.1 Libya
• 6.3.2 Tunisia
• 6.4 A Surprising Arab Spring?
• 6.4.1 Revolutions Propelled by the International Financial System
• 6.5 EU’s Response, Scope and Outcomes
• Conclusions
• Political Entrepreneurship Cycle (PEC)
• Creation
• Design
• Implementation
• Institutionalization
• Evaluation
• References
• Appendix