Prospects for Euro-Mediterranean governance

Abstract

At a time when power is becoming more widely dispersed and ‘low politics’ areas acquire greater salience for students and practitioners alike, the Mediterranean finds itself in limbo between order and change. Against the background of unprecedented global transformations that redefine international politics, this article aims to assess developments in Euro-Mediterranean relations with a view to conceptualizing their intrinsic properties. Its principal aim is to draw normative and empirical insights from the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP), as well as to investigate the extent to which the Partnership has been able to ascribe new meaning to regional order-building.