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Cover Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Editor -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Section One: Regionalism and Contemporary World Politics -- 1. Global Hegemony and Regionalism-James MITTELMAN -- Section Two: European Regionalism -- 2. European Regionalism - Where is the European Union Heading?-Eberhard RHEIN -- 3. The 'Nordic Model of Regionalism'-Bjørn MØLLER -- 4. Subregionalism in South Eastern Europe-Sophia CLÉMENT -- 5. The OSCE and Regional Cooperation in Europe-Monika WOHLFELD -- Section Three: Global Regionalism -- 6. Regional Dynamics in the Mediterranean-Stephen C. CALLEYA -- 7. Towards the FTAA: Challenges, Limits and Possibilities of Inter-American Regionalism-Vilma E. PETRASH -- 8. The Caribbean Regional Integration: What Developments?-François TAGLIONI -- Closing Remarks Regional Dynamics in the Post-Cold War World-Stephen C. CALLEYA -- Select Bibliography -- Index

What are the prospects for the future of the Euro-Mediterranean area and what relevant role can the EMP play in this future? This book focuses on international relations in the Mediterranean area with a particular examination of patterns of.

What are the prospects for the future of the Euro-Mediterranean area and what relevant role can the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) play in the future? After decades of a Mediterranean policy that was actually more focused on improving economic relations between Europe and the Mediterranean riparian states than anything else, the EU launched a more comprehensive Mediterranean policy in November 1995, the so-called Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) that also embraced political and security relations and socio-cultural relations. As the tenth anniversary of this partnership approaches, this book discusses measures that could help transform this multilateral initiative from a boundary management exercise to a process that focuses more on encouraging boundary transformation. Euro-Mediterranean initiatives that are in the pipeline, such as the enhanced political dialogue, the Charter for Peace and Stability, the creation of a free trade area, and justice and home affairs co-operation, are also discussed.

The southern Mediterranean is a geo-strategically sensitive part of the world that lacks a proper security arrangement. Territorial conflicts, economic stagnation and terrorism are the main obstacles hindering the region from achieving a desirable level of stability and engaging in a new Euro-Mediterranean partnership. Europe must develop a way of achieving long-term success in promoting economic and political reforms and the improvement of economic governance. Given its geographical proximity to the southern Mediterranean, Europe's tall order for the next few decades is to create a Mediterranean area of functioning market economies that fully respect the rule of law.

This document contains Table of Contents and Foreword by Dr. Joe Borg, MEDAC Chairman ; The winds of change that have swept across the southern shores of the Mediterranean in 2011, have resulted in a fundamental geopolitical paradigm shift, that will result in a completely different political landscape in this region of the world. The grass roots revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria to date, as well as rumblings elsewhere in the Arab world, offer us a glimpse of the immediate urgency to address the challenge of political paralysis and economic deprivation, common throughout the southern shore of the Mediterranean. The Arab street has spoken. Either their legitimate demands are gradually met by serious action, or an orderly transition will soon give way to a more chaotic, if not anarchic, future. ; N/A

This article assesses early twenty-first-century dynamics in the Mediterranean area as indications of the limited success of countries in the region to integrate further into the emerging international system.
Successive attempts to enhance regional and subregional dynamics across the Mediterranean have remained in an embryonic stage at best. A review of foreign policy priorities of the riparian states reveals a divergence in agenda setting, with either EU membership or subregional affairs dominating the foreign policy strategic planning. There is little to indicate that an intensification of trans-Mediterranean regional dynamics is taking place.
Until France officially took the initiative to promote the Union for the Mediterranean initiative in 2008, interest was waning in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership that was launched in November 1995. The Union for the Mediterranean offers the blueprint to address the physical architectural deficit that has prevented the Mediterranean area from becoming a coherent, functional economic regional space.

Stephen C. Calleya is director of the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, University of Malta.

Stephen Calleya focuses on sub-regionalism as a tool of region building within the EMP. This paper's main concern is the question of whether, in view of the present EMP difficulties, subdividing the southern Mediterranean into various sub-regions (such as the Maghreb and the Mashreq) may be an efficient tool of region building. By taking account of regional relations among southern Mediterranean states and sub-regional initiatives, Calleya discusses several options and conditions under which sub-regionalism within the EMP could contribute to Euro-Mediterranean region building. Calleya argues that if the EU is serious about having a significant positive impact on regional integration in the Mediterranean in the short term, it is necessary to develop an adequate strategy for supporting more directly all regional sub-groupings in the southern Mediterranean.