Human security: A new perspective for Euro-Mediterranean cooperation

Third in a series of ten papers published jointly by the EU Institute for Security Studies and the European Institute of the Mediterranean. This paper looks at the perspectives for security cooperation between the EU and its partner countries in the Mediterranean region. The authors argue that security is a crucial area of cooperation in Euro-Mediterranean relations and that there is a need to reevaluate the EU’s policies towards the region in the light of the changing international context. They also emphasise the need to go beyond conventional understandings of security and to focus on human security in particular, in order to resolve the ongoing political conflicts in the Euro-Mediterranean area.