Talking Tough or Talking Together? European Security Discourses towards the Mediterranean

Bicchi, Federica; Martin, Mary

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“…This eventuality must be set against the issue of political extremism and violence that erupted in Casablanca and Algiers in April 2007. It poses a major problem for the future of European democratization policy in view of the dominant role of security in the relations between the Union and individual countries in the Southern Mediterranean (Bicchi and Martin, 2006, pp. 189–207).…”

Section: The Focus On Counter‐terrorism Since 2001mentioning

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The European Union, Democracy and Counter‐Terrorism in the Maghreb

Joffé

2007

J of Common Market Studies

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Since 2001, the nature of the European Union's external action in the Mediterranean, particularly with respect to North Africa, has undergone significant change. The normative objectives of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership have become securitized in that co-operation to achieve economic and political development between South Mediterranean states has been effectively replaced by co-operation to combat a shared threat: transnational terrorism. The signifier of this process has been the way in which the approach to the issue of migration as a security concern has been modified but the consequence has been to downplay the role of norms of democratization and human rights in intra-Mediterranean political relationships. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author(s); Journal compilation (c) 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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Section: The Focus On Counter‐terrorism Since 2001mentioning

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The European Union, Democracy and Counter‐Terrorism in the Maghreb

Joffé

2007

J of Common Market Studies

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“…Moreover, NATO has grown both in size and scope far beyond its founders' original intentions to itself blur the lines between modern and postmodern security (Lesser et al 2000). Finally, beginning with the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and continuing through the Lisbon Treaty in 2007 -the EU, through its CFSP, has begun to undertake many of the same functions on which the OSCE had the monopoly for years (Bicchi and Martin 2006). In this respect, the OSCE's political nature and consensusbased decision-making have made it seem a modernist relic in a postmodern world.…”

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Embracing “embedded security”: the OSCE's understated but significant role in the European security architecture

Mosser

2015

European Security

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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is perhaps the world's least-known major security organization. However, the same characteristic which puts the OSCE seemingly continually on the verge of irrelevance with respect to the other actors in European and global security is in fact what has allowed it to endure and is in fact its greatest asset. That is, the OSCE's distinct combination of modern and postmodern characteristics in both its composition and its activities allows it to create what can be called "embedded security". Tracing the evolution of one particular set of decision-making rules embedded within a normative framework which questioned the fundamental meanings of "security", and exploring present-day activities, this article reinterprets the OSCE in the light of this new model. In so doing, it re-contextualizes both the OSCE's origins and its contemporary relevance. Instead of a modernist, functional, rule-driven interpretation which situates the OSCE on the periphery in a crowded field, this explanation puts the OSCE at the centre of the postmodern and normative European security architecture.

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“…The EU decision to designate Hamas a terrorist organization in 2003 was taken in part as a result of US pressure. 51 When the movement then triumphed in the Palestinian elections of 2006, which had been called for, funded and monitored by the EU, the Europeans went along with the US in boycotting the victors. In her analysis of EU aid and policies to build a functioning democracy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Rouba Al-Fattal charges the EU with reneging on its own principles and promises, to the detriment of the Palestinian people and their prospects of statehood.…”

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No friend of democratization: Europe's role in the genesis of the ‘Arab Spring’

Hollis

2012

International Affairs

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. that it has consistently prioritized European security interests over 'shared prosperity' and democracy promotion in the Mediterranean. The net result is a set of structured, institutionalized and securitized relationships which will be difficult to reconfigure and will not help Arab reformers attain their goals. Permanent repository linkGiven the gravity of the debt crisis that overtook the euro-zone and thence the EU in autumn 2011, it may seem curious that Europeans regard the EU experience as something to be emulated. Nevertheless, for two decades the EU has sought to 'export' its model of liberal economics and democracy to its neighbours-or so, at least, EU members have claimed.EU initiatives for promoting reform in neighbouring Arab countries have consistently featured accountable government, the rule of law, freedom of expression and assembly, and respect for human rights. EU members espouse democracy as one of their core values, and democracy promotion has been embraced by the EU as a central facet of its policies towards its neighbours.

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Talking Tough or Talking Together? European Security Discourses towards the Mediterranean

Cited by 22 publications

References 7 publications

The European Union, Democracy and Counter‐Terrorism in the Maghreb

The European Union, Democracy and Counter‐Terrorism in the Maghreb

Embracing “embedded security”: the OSCE's understated but significant role in the European security architecture

No friend of democratization: Europe's role in the genesis of the ‘Arab Spring’

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