Overview

Resisting Europe conceptualizes the foreign policies of Europe—defined as the European Union and its member states—toward the states in its immediate southern “neighborhood” as semi-imperial attempts to turn these states into Europe’s southern buffer zone, or borderlands. In these hybrid spaces, different types of rules and practices coexist and overlap, and negotiations over meaning and implementation take place. This book examines the diverse modalities by which states in the Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa (MENA) reject, resist, challenge, modify, or entirely change European policies and preferences and provides rich empirical evidence of these contestation practices in the fields of migration and border control, banking and finance, democracy promotion, and telecommunications. It addresses the complex question of when and how MENA states capitalize on their leverage and interdependence in their relationships with Europe and contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of Europe–Middle East relations, while engaging with broader debates on power and interdependence, order, and contestation in international relations. While a contribution on the practices of resistance and contestation of MENA states vis-à-vis European policies and preferences in this geopolitically significant region was overdue, this volume leads the way for subsequent studies that seek to overcome the constraints of exceptionalism so characteristic of research of the Middle East, Europe/the European Union, and certainly of their relationship.

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Author:   Raffaella A. Del Sarto ,  Simone Tholens
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9780472132157

ISBN 10:   0472132156
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   13 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of contributors Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Resisting Europe: Practices of Contestation in the Mediterranean Middle East Raffaella A. Del Sarto and Simone Tholens Part I: Conceptualizing a Contested Relationship Petits arrangements avec l’Empire: Reflections on Imperial Power at its Fringes Magali Gravier Creating Order in the MENA Neighborhood: The Enlargement of the European International Society and Its Contestation Yannis Stivachtis Part II: Contestation in Practice Domesticating Egypt, Domesticated by Egypt? Cooperation and Contestation in EU-Promoted Banking Supervision Reform Roberto Roccu Leapfrogging the EU: Telecommunications Regulation in Morocco Véronique Wavre and Tina Freyburg The European Union and Turkey: Negotiating the Management of Europe’s Extended External Borders Asli Okyay Leverage and Contestation in Refugee Governance: Lebanon and Europe in the Context of Mass Displacement Tamirace Fakhoury Contesting Europe’s Policies of Migration Control: The Case of Morocco and Tunisia Mohamed Limam and Raffaella A. Del Sarto From “Imperial Overreach” to “Blowback”: The EU, the Mediterranean Borderlands and the Syrian Crisis Raymond Hinnebusch Conclusions The Power to Contest in Europe-Middle East Relations Raffaella A. Del Sarto and Simone Tholens

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Raffaella A. Del Sarto is Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), SAIS Europe. Simone Tholens is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University and Co-Director of the Centre for Conflict, Security and Societies (CCSS).

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