Publication

Apr 2017

This paper, which is the final one in a series of three, analyzes how the EU has both conceptualized and characterized the Mediterranean region since 2003. Basically, since that time Brussels’ boundary-drawing perception of the area has been either/or -- i.e., it has distinguished the ideal European self from the imperfect Southern Mediterranean ‘other’. The text also claims that the EU’s approach towards the Mediterranean region remains securitized, depoliticizing and technocratic, which has only compounded the identity problems that ‘Europe’ has with its neighbors to the south.

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Series IAI Research Papers
Issue 3
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