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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484904903321

Autore

Boening Astrid B

Titolo

The Arab Spring : Re-Balancing the Greater Euro-Mediterranean? / / by Astrid B. Boening

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-04606-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (141 p.)

Disciplina

327.9174927

Soggetti

Political science

European Economic Community literature

Comparative politics

Political Science

European Integration

Comparative Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction—A Euro-Meditterranean Regional Security Complex? -- Sectors of Security -- Levels of Security–Intra-Regional Level -- .Levels of Security – Inter-Regional Level: Part A: Select State Actors -- Levels of Security–Inter-Regional Level: Part B: Intergovernmental Organizations: Global Government–Leading From Behind or Through Consensus? --  Conclusions:  Adressing Regional Security Threats “Locally, “Regionally,” and “Globally”.

Sommario/riassunto

Beginning in 2010, there has been a consolidating cooperation among existing powers in the Euro-Mediterranean in face of the rapid de-stabilization of the Arab region. This fact alone accelerated the hesitant responses by the EU towards emerging hegemons, particularly Russia and China, who in-turn applied traditional mechanisms of increasing regional economic influence to bolster their political influence, but with the difference that a normative influence is missing, in contrast to the EU’s and U.S.’ influence, which is strongly centered on universal norms pertaining to political, economic and social-cultural norms. This book examines the Arab Spring not only from its intra but also inter-regional



geo-political and strategic implications by analyzing the Euro-Mediterranean region following the onset of the Arab Spring. It aims to connect the broader economic and political strands of power shifts that have taken place since the Arab Spring, making it of interests to political scientists and policy-makers concerned with the Mediterranean and Euro-Arab relations. There are many accounts on the Arab Spring. But only Astrid Boening has captured the underlying reasons and the geopolitical dynamics of this upheaval, which is rocking the Islamic Galaxy from its foundations. --Professor Ferdinando Sanfelice di Monteforte (VADM ret.).