The changing scope of intercultural dialogue in EU Mediterranean policy

Perini, Pietro de

doi:10.1080/13629395.2019.1605757

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“…The Version of Record of this manuscript is available in Mediterranean Politics (Published online: 29 March 2020). http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13629395.2020.1739928 7 trade, but faith in the universality of the EU's values, and the enriching potential of cultural dialogue (De Perini, 2019). After 9/11, Europeans continued trying to frame 'the Mediterranean' as a geopolitical region transcending Western and Islamic Worlds (Adler, Bicchi, Crawford, & Del Sarto, 2006).…”

Section: The Rise Of 'Judeo-christian Civilizationism' In Europementioning

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Judeo-Christian civilizationism: Challenging common European foreign policy in the Israeli-Palestinian arena

Greene

2020

Mediterranean Politics

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The EU's identity is said to shape its role as a 'normative actor' promoting universal democratic values, including to its neighbourhood. Yet a competing civilizationist version of European identityincreasingly invoked on the radical rightframes Europe as representing 'Judeo-Christian' values in opposition to non-European cultures, especially Islam. This paper argues that these identity variations shape divergent responses to foreign policy challenges, by showing the growing influence of civilizationist discourse on European attitudes towards the Israeli-Palestinian arena. The paper focuses on Austria's 2017-2019 ÖVP-FPÖ coalition to identity links between rising civilizationist politics and significant policy shifts regarding the Israeli-Palestinian arena.

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Section: The Rise Of 'Judeo-christian Civilizationism' In Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Judeo-Christian civilizationism: Challenging common European foreign policy in the Israeli-Palestinian arena

Greene

2020

Mediterranean Politics

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“…IC has also been used for interfaith dialogue and conflict resolution in ethnically and religiously divided territories and societies, for example, in the case of post-war Lebanon (Yazbeck Haddad & Fischbach, 2015), Europe (Orton, 2016) and sub-Saharan Africa (Omotosho, 2014) and many other similar contexts. It has even been used as a strategy for region building within a broader Euro-Mediterranean partnership (Perini, 2020;Walton, 2012). This global orientation around political conflicts has been primarily constructed within international institutions with the purpose of direct application at inter-state and even inter-regional levels, rather than exclusively at intra-state local levels involving people-to-people interactions and exchanges.…”

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A Multi-scale Approach to Interculturalism: From Globalised Politics to Localised Policy and Practice

Zapata‐Barrero

Mansouri

2021

Int. Migration & Integration

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Interculturalism (IC) is presently discussed as a foundational basis for local public policy aimed at managing migration-related diversity within ethno-culturally plural societies, especially at the local level. Despite its increased saliency over the last decade, IC is neither theoretically new nor was it always intended for mere application in strictly city contexts of diversity. Rather, it has a global origin as a political basis for international relations and negotiations. In discussing these origins, this article has two main interrelated aims. Firstly, it provides an overview of the multi-scale approach of IC, with the purpose of disentangling analytically the different empirical bases where it can frame the diversity agenda. Secondly, it explores whether a lack of appreciation and awareness of this multi-scale orientation may affect IC’s capacity to address the challenges of diversity governance at the local level. Methodologically, the article will undertake a textual analysis of a select number of leading documents framing its practice within the broader policy literature produced by the four main institutions that have advocated the intercultural approach within a global agenda. These are the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and United Nations University, on one hand, and the European Union and the Council of Europe on the other. The main findings show us the importance of a multi-scale thinking in diversity and IC studies, to avoid contributing to greater confusion in its applications.

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“…There are research that focuses on discussing the national interests of European Union member states such as France, Spain, Germany and Central Europe on the formation of UfM (Gillespie, 2011;Delgado, 2011;Schumacher, 2011). There are also other studies that continue to use the foreign policy perspective of EU member states but with the perspective of intercultural dialogue (De Perini, 2019).…”

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Strategy To Strengthen Cooperation Between The European Union And The Mediterranean Countries Through The Union For Mediterranean (UfM)

Elistania¹,

Nurmeiga²,

Permadi³

2019

JPI

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The European Union is an example of regional cooperations that represents regional identity. In the midst of the process of integration and expansion of membership, the European Union has an interest in building good relations with non-member countries in the immediate region, including the Mediterranean. The process of establishing cooperation between the European Union and the Mediterranean countries continues to change. The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) in 1995 was the place for regional cooperation with most member countries and had a well-structured pillar of cooperation. However, the two entities re-formed a new cooperative platform, The Union for Mediterranean (UfM) in 2008. This study aims to explain why the European Union and Mediterranean countries changed the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) into The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) in 2008. Using the theory building approach in the Alex Warleigh-Lack regionalism concept, the findings in the research resulted in an answer that EMP has negative values that are not in accordance with the development of the issue so that it becomes a reason for the formation of UfM.

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The changing scope of intercultural dialogue in EU Mediterranean policy

Cited by 6 publications

References 35 publications

Judeo-Christian civilizationism: Challenging common European foreign policy in the Israeli-Palestinian arena

Judeo-Christian civilizationism: Challenging common European foreign policy in the Israeli-Palestinian arena

A Multi-scale Approach to Interculturalism: From Globalised Politics to Localised Policy and Practice

Strategy To Strengthen Cooperation Between The European Union And The Mediterranean Countries Through The Union For Mediterranean (UfM)

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