Euro-Mediterranean relations and their heading. On the way to a differentiated multilateralism?

Eva Cihelková
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Eva Cihelková: Faculty of International Relations, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

Agricultural Economics, 2014, vol. 60, issue 1, 31-48

Abstract: The European Union pays a primary attention to the development of neighbouring relations; it means the relations with countries in the immediate vicinity of its external borders. This is done for the sake of prosperity, stability and the spread of democratic values in the world. In this sense, a kind of the privileged region have always created the states of the Southern and Eastern or eventually Northern Mediterranean with which the European Economic Community began to develop cooperation immediately after its formation. Then since the mid-1990s, the EU set out a goal to create a Euro-Mediterranean free trade area and thus to move closer to the interlacing of the two entities in the form of integration. The outline of the process of development of Euro-Mediterranean relationships (including the changes of bilateral approaches and the conditioning factors) is the objective of this article. It is divided into three sections, which cover different stages of the development of these relationships over time and escalate in terms of two-way approaches to a new quality of cooperation (including the three stated research questions). The result of these relationships could become a Euro-Mediterranean Alliance that is outlined as a differentiated form of multilateralism in the conclusions of the paper.

Keywords: good governance; European Neighbourhood Policy; European Union; Euro-Mediterranean Alliance; Mediterranean; partnership; regionalism; strategic partnership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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