Europe in the New Middle East. Opportunity or Exclusion?

Abstract
This book examines the European Union's response to the Arab spring, from late 2010 to the beginning of 2014. It investigates how far the EU changed its policies towards the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the aftermath of the Arab spring, and what impact European policies had in either helping or hindering democratisation reforms during this period. It also explores what impact the Arab spring had on European security and economic interests.

Analytically the book unpacks the factors that best explain EU policy choices in the Middle East since 2010. It highlights how the responses to the Arab spring have changed the governance dynamics of the EU-Middle East relationship. The book assesses how far the EU foreign policy has succeeded in meeting the challenge of the Arab spring.

Oxford Studies in Democratisation is a series for scholars and students of comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization process that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia. The series editor is Laurence Whitehead, Official Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

Readership: Scholars and students in international relations, especially those interested in EU foreign policy and the Middle East

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 democratisation.

Table 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

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