EU Counterterrorism and the Southern Mediterranean Countries after the Arab Spring: New Potential for Cooperation?

MacKenzie, Alex; Kaunert, Christian; Léonard, Sarah

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“…A number of studies have indicated the primacy of economic considerations in EU bilateral and regional exchanges with the Arab countries, such as trade relations and energy exports from the region (Hollis, 2012;Mettwally, 2004;Wood, 2009). The EU is said to have supported authoritarian regimes to secure its neoliberal economic interests and cooperated with market-oriented civil society actors to expand the scope of its economic activities (MacKenzie et al, 2013;Seeberg, 2009). It has also been noted how EU economic development policies through investment, business and aid provision have intensified imbalanced economic and trade relations between EU member states and Arab countries and created an asymmetric dependency to the detriment of the latter (Attinà, 2003;Dodini and Fantini, 2006).…”

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The European Union and neoliberal governmentality: Twinning in Tunisia and Egypt

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2014

European Journal of International Relations

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As a response to the Arab uprisings that started in 2010, the European Union has emphasised, more determinated than ever, the urgency of inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development in the Arab region. The central objective of this article is to understand the nature and operation of European Union support for development following Arab mass movements. More specifically, it examines the European Union's Twinning instrument in Egypt and Tunisia through a neoliberal governmentality framework, with a major focus on visualisations, technologies and subject formation. This approach enables us to observe the application of an agenda through which Twinning intervenes into non-economic domains of governance in the target countries and aims at shaping these spheres by economic rationalities and techniques. By constructing change around local governance capabilities, the Twinning programme acts upon individual skills, institutional arrangements and relationships, deploys benchmarking techniques, and empowers subjects and government behaviour in order to bring conduct to certain economic logics and exercises. The outcome is the rendering of Tunisian and Egyptian socio-economic development open to enterprise-based, calculative and professionalised operations that make local conditions serviceable to neoliberal governing patterns, linkages and practices of business, capital production and investment.

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The European Union and neoliberal governmentality: Twinning in Tunisia and Egypt

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European Journal of International Relations

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“…The literature on the AFSJ in general has also been complemented by more specialised works, which have focused on specific aspects or policy dimensions of the AFSJ. In that respect, the EU counter-terrorism policy has attracted a particularly high level of attention (Spence 2007, Eckes 2009, Bures 2011, Argomaniz 2011, Kaunert and Léonard 2011, Bossong 2012, MacKenzie et al 2013. In contrast, institutional issues have overall been less studied, apart from some early works focusing on the legal intricacies of the then 'third pillar' (e.g.…”

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The governance of justice and internal security in Scotland: between the Scottish independence referendum and British decisions on the EU

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Scotland could be affected by the outcome of the Scottish independence referendum in September 2014. It argues that it is currently impossible to equate a specific result in the referendum with a given outcome for the governance of justice and internal security in Scotland. This is because of the complexities of the current arrangements in that policy area and the existence of several changes that presently affect them and are outside the control of the government and of the people of Scotland. This article also identifies an important paradox. In the policy domain of justice and internal security, a 'no' vote could, in a specific set of circumstances, actually lead to more changes than a victory of the 'yes' camp.

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“…Monar et al (2003),Baldaccini et al (2007),Balzacq and Carrera (2006),Huysmans (2006),Guild and Geyer (2008), van Munste (2009) andBigo et al (2010).2 Zimmermann (2006),Spence (2007),Eckes (2009), Brown (2010,Bures (2006;), Argomaniz (2011), Kaunert (20052010a;2010b;2010c),Kaunert and Della Giovanna (2010),Kaunert and Léonard (2011),Léonard and Kaunert (2012),Kaunert et al (2012a),Bossong (2008; andMacKenzie et al (2013).3 Baldaccini(2007),Geddes (2008),Léonard (2009) andBoswell and Geddes (2011).4 Fletcher and Lö ö f (2008) andEckes and Konstadinides (2011).5 Anderson and Apap (2002),Occhipinti (2003) andGuild and Geyer (2008).6 Kaunert et al (2012b) andKaunert and Zwolski (2013).7 Balzacq(2009), Wolff et al (2009), Wolff (2009; 2012) and Trauner (2011).Introduction 499 Downloaded by [UQ Library] at 03:54 15 March 2015…”

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Introduction: rethinking Western foreign policy and the Middle East

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Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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Does the Arab Spring provide a new opening for Western cooperation with the Middle East? The Arab Spring involved a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests in the Arab world, starting on 18 December 2010, which forced rulers, at least partially, from power in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. Egypt, however, has since seen a reactionary movement re-establishing military power to the prerevolutionary state. Additional uprisings occurred also in Bahrain and Syria, the latter escalating into full-scale civil war. A number of other countries have also seen serious protests, ranging from Algeria, Iraq, Jordan and Kuwait to Morocco. It is particularly noteworthy that the fallout from the war in Libya has had side effects for a simmering rebellion in Mali, where it appears that al-Qaeda is establishing itself in the north of the country. The European Union (EU) has been concerned about such an eventuality in the Sahel for some time. While some observers have drawn comparisons between the Arab Spring and the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe, the precise endpoint and the direction of the Arab Spring revolutions remain to be identified. In short, the Arab world currently faces a period of social protest and change, which challenges our understanding of politics in the region and established assumptions about Western foreign policy towards this region.Twice within the last hundred years, Western powers have tried to significantly alter the configuration of the Middle Eastern political order. The main aim of this Downloaded by [UQ Library] at 03:54 15 March 2015 special issue is to examine the extent to which the goal of democracy promotion has been in conflict with or, in contrast, supported by other goals (geo-strategic, economic and cultural) in the policies of the major actors towards the Middle East. It brings together scholars with research interests in Middle Eastern politics and those analysing the policies and interests of external actors. Against the backdrop of the recent 'War on Terror', the comparative and interdisciplinary outlook of the special issue offers the opportunity for much-needed intellectual exchange between political scientists, contemporary historians and international relations scholars from Europe, North America and the Middle East.The articles in this special issue tackle the major issues that occupy the minds of all historians and political scientists: how the world works as a political entity and how human beings, either individually or in groups, affect this, especially if they choose to operate outside contemporary systems and norms. The contributors also provide us with an important reminder of how current affairs reflect and reinforce centuries-old patterns of how states interact with each other. These issues occupied the mind of Europeans a century and a half ago who, under the umbrella of a different form of imperialism, attempted to eradicate the differences they encountered between themselves and the indigenous population. Such tactics would be considered unacceptable tod...

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EU Counterterrorism and the Southern Mediterranean Countries after the Arab Spring: New Potential for Cooperation?

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The European Union and neoliberal governmentality: Twinning in Tunisia and Egypt

The European Union and neoliberal governmentality: Twinning in Tunisia and Egypt

The governance of justice and internal security in Scotland: between the Scottish independence referendum and British decisions on the EU

Introduction: rethinking Western foreign policy and the Middle East

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