The Middle East Peace Process and the EU Foreign Policy and Security Strategy in International Politics

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Synopsis

EU policy-makers have in the past decade endeavoured to formulate a substantial redefinition of the organisation's international ambitions. Attempting to carve out a new role as a key foreign and security policy actor in international politics, the EU has been involved in peace negotiations across the globe. Here, Taylan Özgür Kaya looks at how this is enacted, with particular reference to the Middle East peace process. Expanding its political, diplomatic, economic and security role in the region, the EU, whilst still being the junior partner to the US, has increasingly played a more conspicuous role in the attempts to resolve (or at least mediate) the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tracking the development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1948, Kaya examines the role of the EC, and then the EU, and its quest to establish a common position and ways in which to act upon policy formulation. Kaya furthermore contrasts the EU's policy towards the Middle East in the pre-9/11 era with the post-9/11 era, presenting the events in New York as a watershed in the way in which promotion of democracy in the Middle East was understood, both internationally and within EU policy-making circles. He thus critically analyses the extent to which the EU manages to live up to its self-image as a consistent and effective key player in conflict resolution and crisis management. The Middle East Peace Process and the EU offers vital analysis for those looking at the role of external bodies within peace processes in general, and in the Middle East specifically. With the financial and diplomatic future of the EU ever more in the spotlight, this book will appeal both to researchers of the Peace Process and to policy-makers in the EU.

Book details

Series:
Library of International Relations
Author:
Taylan Özgür Kaya
ISBN:
9781786724984
Related ISBNs:
9781848859821
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2019-03-07
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2013
Copyright by:
Taylan 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
History, Nonfiction