INRE535 - ISSUES IN EURO-MEDITERRANEAN POLITICS

Course Description

This course aims to develop theoretical and empirical background of the students in relation to the political, cultural, economic and security affairs of the countries which are members of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. Thus and so the project of Euro-Mediterranean Partnership will be analyzed within the framework of both traditional and critical theories by referring to the three constitutive phases (security and political cooperation, economic cooperation and cultural dialogue) as well as by assessing certain case studies. The relations between the EU and the Euromed States will also be highlighted.

ISSUES IN EURO-MEDITERRANEAN POLITICS

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Course outcomes

01 To develop the knowledge and understanding of the awareness of the ways in which mainstream views of security issues at local, national, regional and international levels interrelate with each other.
02 To categorize the interrelationship between the political, security, socio-economic, and cultural “Partnership”
03 To Asses the distinction between governmental, media and scholarly discourse on the Mediterranean area.
04 To assess the contending interpretations of apparent and claimed reasons for conflict and instability in the Mediterranean area.
05 To Evaluate the intertwining between domestic and external determinants in shaping regional order in connection with world politics.
06 To compare process of regional building with the political agenda of the interested actors.

Course Syllabus

Week	Topic
Week 1	Introduction. Theoretical Framework of the European Foreign Policy. Which Mediterranean is being constructed? De-Constructing the Political Discourse on the Mediterranean Area by confronting it to its policy practice and the World Order. Required Reading: 1) Calleya 2005: Evaluating the Euro-Mediterranean Relations. Introduction pp. 1-8; 2) Barcelona Declaration.
Week 2	Euro-Mediterranean Relations in Historical Perspective. Readings: 1) R. A. Del Sarto, 2006. "Theoretical Framework’ in Contested State Identities and Regional Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Area. pp.30-54. 2) Bicchi, 2006. "Our size fits all". 3) Gillespie and Volpi, 2017. Routledge Handbook of Mediterranean Politics. Chapter 2. The Historical Construction of The Mediterranean by Fenech and Pace; 4) Calleya 2005.Evaluating the Euro-Mediterranean Relations. Euro-Mediterranean regional dynamics. pp. 9-34
Week 3	Euro-Mediterranean Relations in Historical Perspective. Required Readings: 1) Gillespie and Volpi, 2017. Routledge Handbook of Mediterranean Politics. Chapter 3. Historical/Geopolitical Turning Points in The Modern Mediterranean. Cold War, Post-Cold War And Arab Spring. By Cavatorta.
Week 4	Euro-Mediterranean Regional Dynamics. Region Building and Political Agenda: Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Readings: 1). Gillespie and Volpi, 2017. Chapter 4. Regionalism and the Mediterranean: Long history, odd partners. By Bicchi 2). Wallerstein, 2006. European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power. (94 pages). 3). Cesari, 2009. The Securitisation of Islam in Europe.
Week 5	Southern Europe, the Mashreq and the Maghreb: The Euro-Mediterranean Summits from Barcelona and onwards. Readings: 1). Morin, 2005. The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership tries to find its second wind. 2). Dempsey, 2016. Europe Still Looking Backward at Its Southern Neighbors. 3). Youngs, 2015 article 20 Years of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. Also may be of interest: Gillespie and Volpi, 2017. Routledge Handbook of Mediterranean Politics. Chapter 5. Securing the Mediterranean, inventing the ‘Middle East’ By Pinar Bilgin.
Week 6	European Foreign Policy and Mediterranean Politics: The Political and Security Dimension. Research Paper Topic Discussion. Readings: 1) Boening, 2014. The Arab Spring: Re-Balancing the Greater Euro-Mediterranean? Chapter 1: Introduction: A Euro-Mediterranean Regional Security Complex? 2) Chapter 3: Levels of Security—Intra-Regional Level. 3)Chapter 4: Levels of Security—Inter-Regional Level: Part A Select State Actors. 4) Youngs, 2017. 20 Years of the Euro- Mediterranean Relations. Chapter 8: Talking Tough or Talking Together? European Security Discourses towards the Mediterranean by Federica Bicchi & Mary Martin.
Week 7	The Socio-Economic and Cultural Relations and “Partnership”. Stage I: OUTLINE OF RESEARCH PAPER DUE APRIL 14. Readings: 1). Gillespie and Volpi, 2017. Routledge Handbook of Mediterranean Politics. Chpt. 6.From imperialism to failed liberal peace: How Europe contributed to MENA’s failing states system and how MENA blowback threatens Europe. By Hinnebusch. 2). Zielonka, 2011 The Ideology of Empire. 3). Del Sarto, 2016. Normative Empire Europe: The European Union, its Borderlands, and the ‘Arab Spring’.
Week 8	ONLINE OPEN BOOK EXAM
Week 9	The role of extra-regional powers in the Euro-Mediterranean area. Readings: 1) Calleya, 2005. Ch. 4. Pp.108-125. The role of extra-regional powers in the Euro-Mediterranean area:The role of a superpower: the United States. The role of international organizations and the case of NATO and 2). Ch. 5 pp126-144. Regional and sub-regional dynamics in the Mediterranean area. The EMP after EU enlargement: time to evaluate Prospects for the future: a regional assessment to 2020. Euro-Mediterranean relations in the twenty-first century. 3). Donatella Scatamacchia, "NATO and the Greater Middle East:…" 4) Calleya (2013) Security Challenges in the Euro-Med area in the 21st Century.:Chapter 1 Regional relations in the Euro-Med area; Chapter 2 Security Challenges in the Mediterranean .
Week 10	Euro-Mediterranean relations in the Twenty-first century. Readings: 1) Pace, 2006. The Politics of Regional Identity: Meddling with the Mediterranean. Ch. 4 EU foreign policy as a discursive practice of the Mediterranean’. 2.) Del Sarto & Schumacher, 2005. From EMP to ENP: What's at Stake with the European Neighborhood Policy towards the Southern Mediterranean?
Week 11	PART I: The Union for the Mediterranean in the aftermath of the "Arab Spring". Readings: 1). Gillespie, 2008. A 'Union for the Mediterranean' ... or for the EU? 2). Muasher et. al., 2016. Between Peril and Promise: A New Framework for Partnership with Tunisia. Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network: Challenges and Achievements. Case Studies: PART II: The Euro-Mediterranean area: National and Regional. Readings: 1). Horst, 2013. Euro-Mediterranean Relations after the Arab Spring: Persistence in Times of Change. Chapter 3. Facing a Dilemma: The EUs Promotion of Gender-Democracy after the ‘Arab Spring”, by Annette Junemann. 2) FAWCETT & GANDOIS, 2010. Regionalism in Africa and the Middle East: Implications for EU Studies.
Week 12	Holiday no class. Final Literature Review Papers Due May 19!
Week 13	FINISH COURSE. Discussion of Literature Review Papers.
Week 14	June 2: ONLINE OPEN BOOK EXAM
Week 15	-

Reference Books & Course Materials

01 S. C. Calleya. 2005. Evaluating Euro-Mediterranean Relations. N Y: Routledge. ISBN 0415-34792-0.
02 R. Gillespie, F. Volpi (eds). 2018. Routledge Handbook of Mediterranean Politics. N Y: Routledge. ISBN 1138903981
03 A. B. Boening. 2014. The Arab Spring: Re-Balancing the Greater Euro-Mediterranean? USA: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-04605-1. Chapters: 1, 2,3, 4. & 6.
04 ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS/WEBSITES available on course MOODLE site.

Learning Outcomes

L01 A developed knowledge and understanding of the awareness of the ways in which mainstream views of security issues at local, national, regional and international levels interrelate with each other.
L02 The interelationship between the political, security, socio-economic, and cultural “Partnership”
L03 The distinction between governmental, media and scholarly discourse on the Mediterranean area.
L04 The ability to assess the contending interpretations of apparent and claimed reasons for conflict and instability in the Mediterranean area.
L05 İdentifying the intertwinning between domestic and external determinants in shaping regional order in connection with world politics.
L06 Linking the process of regional building with the political agenda of the interested actors.

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