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This paper is an attempt to identify and understand the future relationship between the NATO's Mediterranean policy and the Arab World. It tries to examine the themes, dimensions and the leading obstacles and challenges that influence the relationship between the two sides, and how this relationship affects security and political stability in the region. The main themes of this paper are:NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue: What and Why? NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue: Structure and Mechanisms .Why the Initiative: Importance, Purposes and Fears? How Did the Concerned Arab States Receive NATO's Initiative and How Did their Positions in This Regard Change? Where do NATO Members Stand Regarding NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue? NATO and the Iraqi Crisis. Finally, The Mediterranean Dialogue: Challenges and Obstacles. The scope of the study starts from the beginning of the NATO's Mediterranean Initiative in the mid of 1990s to the first decade of the 21 century .

This study examines and analyzes the development of the relations between the Political Islam movements, on the one hand, and the foreign or regional and international environments, with the west in particular, on the other hand. In another words, it examines the concept and the practice of the Political Islam Movements and International Relations. It puts the movements' and the environments' visions, agendas and policies since the 1940s up till now into perspective. The paper deals with many aspects such as, challenges to the efficiency of the Political Islam movements in the international arena, the attributes of the Political Islam, and the theoretical approach to International relation incorporated into the political Islam movements' framework. This paper is confined to the study of the contemporary Political Islam movements, specifically the Sunni Arab one. This movement is mainly represented by the Muslim Brotherhood and its different partisan forms across the Arab world. It is also represented by those movements which dissented and severed any relations they once had with the Brotherhood despite the similar vision they share.