Rethinking relationships to Europe’s South

Europe’s broader Southern vicinity has had an express geopolitical makeover. In one decade, a predictable order of political stasis in the Middle East and North Africa has given way to an array of overlapping, often contradictory dynamics. Lacking the sort of single organising principle that policy-makers treasure for straightforward policy planning, the new Middle Eastern ‘dis-order’ will require Europeans to radically re-think the kind of relationships they can have with governments in the region.