Analysing Middle East Foreign Policies: The Relationship with Europe

by Nonneman,Gerd; Nonneman,Gerd

• ISBN13: 9780714684277
• ISBN10: 0714684279
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-08-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In the post-September 11 climate, Europe's regional security environment and the role of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) states have become more than ever a focus for attention but remain ill-understood. The connections between these two groups of actors have a long history, from which emerge certain patterns showing both continuities and shifts. this book fills a gap in the literature on Euro-Middle Eastern relations by adopting a south-to-north perspective, using the tools of Foreign Policy Analysis to examine the determinants of the foreign policies of the MENA states themselves. Only thus can one hope to arrive at a genuine understanding of what underlies these states' evolving policy orientations and behavior towards Europe. At the same time, the systematic comparative analysis of MENA states' foreign policy with special reference to Europe throws new light on questions about 'Third World' foreign policy more generally, and so adds to the broader field of International Relations. The work is theresult of a two-year project sponsored by the European University Institute's Mediterranean program. The book starts by laying out a conceptual framework for analysis, and providing a sketch of the regional environments that help condition the foreign policy in question; one such environmental factor is European policy itself. A wide range of case studies from North Africa, the Mashreq, the Gulf and Turkey, then expand on this by exploring themes and patterns of policy determinants and output. The volume thus examines how these broader dynamics of foreign policy making are illustrated in, and have impacted on, these states' orientation and behavior towards Europe.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	v
Introduction	1	(5)
Gerd Nonneman
Analyzing the Foreign Policies of the Middle East and North Africa: A Conceptual Framework	6	(13)
Gerd Nonneman
The Three Environments of Middle East Foreign Policy Making and Relations with Europe	19	(24)
Gerd Nonneman
Analyzing Moroccan Foreign Policy and Relations with Europe	43	(21)
Michael Willis
Nizar Messari
Egyptian--European Relations: From Conflict to Cooperation	64	(17)
Emad Gad
Globalization and Generational Change: Syrian Foreign Policy between Regional Conflict and European Partnership	81	(19)
Raymond Hinnebusch
Lebanon and Europe: The Foreign Policy of a Penetrated State	100	(23)
Tom Pierre Najem
Propaganda versus Pragmatism: Iraqi Foreign Policy in Qasim's Years, 1958--63	123	(22)
Alberto Tonini
Dynamics and Determinants of the GCC States' Foreign Policy, with Special Reference to the EU	145	(29)
Abdulla Baabood
Revolution, Theocratic Leadership and Iran's Foreign Policy: Implications for Iran--EU Relations	174	(23)
Ziba Moshaver
The Determinants of Turkish Foreign Policy, and Turkey's European Vocation	197	(26)
Mustafa Aydin
Shades of Opinion: the Oil Exporting Countries and International Climate Politics	223	(20)
Paul Aarts
Dennis Janssen
Explaining International Politics in the Middle East: The Struggle of Regional Identity and Systemic Structure	243	(14)
Raymond Hinnebusch
Afterword
Small States' Diplomacy in the Age of Globalization: An Omani Perspective	257	(6)
Badr Bin Hamad Al Bu Said
Index	263