The Remaking of the Euro-Mediterranean Vision

Aybars Görgülü & Gülşah Dark Kahyaoğlu (eds)

The Remaking of the
Euro-Mediterranean Vision

Challenging Eurocentrism with Local Perceptions
in the Middle East and North Africa

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This edited book is produced within the MEDRESET Project: A comprehensive, integrated and bottom-up approach to reset our understanding of the Mediterranean space, remap the region and reconstruct inclusive, responsive and flexible EU policies in it.

The project is founded within the European Union Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation – INT-06-2015: Re-invigorating the partnership between the two shores of the Mediterranean – grant agreement no. 693055.South

ISSN 2624-8905 • ISBN 978-3-631-77568-4 (Print)

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About the editors

Aybars Görgülü is a founding member and Executive Director at the Center for Public Policy and Democracy Studies (PODEM). He worked for the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) from 2007 to 2015. Dr Görgülü teaches on Turkey’s foreign policy and Caucasus politics at Istanbul Kültür University and has several publications on Turkey’s domestic and foreign policy issues.

Gülşah Dark Kahyaoğlu is a Project Officer at the Center for Public Policy and Democracy Studies (PODEM), where she is pursuing research and coordination of projects in the areas of the European Union, the MENA region and migration.

About the book

This edited collection is a timely and in-depth perception analysis of Euro-Mediterranean relations and the EU policy actions towards the Mediterranean region.

The book takes as its departure point the recent geopolitical developments in the Middle East and North Africa, urging the renewal of a Euro-Mediterranean partnership while challenging the ‘Eurocentric orientation of EU policies’ – a critical factor which explains why the EU has been unable to adjust its policies to the region’s fast-changing complexities. The volume subsequently introduces the findings of an elite survey conducted between 2017–2018 with local stakeholders in 9 countries in the Mediterranean. The findings and policy recommendations aim to contribute to making EU policies more responsive to major challenges in the region, more flexible on the multilateral and the bilateral level, and more inclusive of key stakeholders.

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Contents

Tables

Abbreviations

Aybars Görgülü

Preface

Zeynep Gülöz Bakır and Gülşah Dark Kahyaoğlu

Introduction

Robert P. Parks and Zeynep Gülöz Bakır

Chapter 1: An Outlook on Tunisian Elite Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the EU and its Policy Preferences in Tunisia and the Mediterranean

Gülşah Dark Kahyaoğlu

Chapter 2: Attitudes towards the EU and its Presence in the Mediterranean: Perceptions of Elite Actors in Turkey

ASI-REM staff researchers

Chapter 3: Egyptian Elite’s Views on Egypt, and its Relations with the EU

David Ramin Jalilvand

Chapter 4: EU–Iran Relations: Iranian Perceptions and European Policy

Karina Goulordava and ASI-REM staff researchers

Chapter 5: Lebanese Elites’ Views on Lebanon and its Relations with the EU

Nimrod Goren, Eyal Ronen and Emi̇ r Bayburt

Chapter 6: Israel, the EU, and the Mediterranean: Understanding the Perceptions of Israeli Elite Actors←5 | 6→

Gülşah Dark Kahyaoğlu, Omar Iharchane, Samir Bennis and Zeynep Gülöz Bakır

Chapter 7: Revisiting the Role of the EU in the Neighbourhood: Moroccan Elite Perceptions on the EU and Its Policy Impact in the Mediterranean

Sabi̇ ha Senyücel Gündoğar

Chapter 8: Saudi Arabia’s Relations with the EU and Its Perception of EU Policies in MENA

Aybars Görgülü

Chapter 9: Towards a Viable EU–Gulf Engagement: Qatari Perceptions of the EU and Its Policies in the Region

Conclusions

Authors←6 | 7→

Tables

Table 1: Overview of interviewees

Table 2: Types of stakeholders

←7 | 8→ ←8 | 9→

Abbreviations

AK Party Justice and Development Party (Turkey)

AMU Arab Maghreb Union

AQIM Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

BDS Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

CBC Cross-border cooperation

CHP Republican People’s Party (Turkey)

CoE Council of Europe

CMRAP Moroccan Centre for Research and Policy Analysis

CSO Civil society organization

DCFTA Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area

E3 EU Triumvirate or EU Trio

EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

ECJ European Court of Justice

EIDHR European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights

ENI European Neighbourhood Instrument

ENP European Neighbourhood Policy

ENPI European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument

EU European Union

EUBAM EU Border Assistance Mission

EU-MEFTA Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area

FDI Foreign direct investment

GCC Gulf Co-operation Council

GDP Gross domestic product

GRECO Group of States against Corruption

HDP People’s Democratic Party (Turkey)

IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency

IBM Integrated Border Management

IMF International Monetary Fund

INGO International non-governmental organization

IPA Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance←9 | 10→