The Convergence of Civilizations : Constructing a Mediterranean Region.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- 1 Normative Power: The European Practice of Region-Building and the Case of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership -- PART TWO: LOGIC AND MODELS OF REGION-BUILDING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN -- 2 Mare Nostrum? The Sources, Logic, and Dilemmas of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership -- 3 A Political Agenda for Region-Building? The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and Democracy Promotion in North Africa -- 4 The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and Sub-Regionalism: A Case of Region-Building? -- PART THREE: INSTRUMENTS AND PRACTICES OF REGION-BUILDING -- 5 The European Origins of Euro-Mediterranean Practices -- 6 Political Securitization and Democratization in the Maghreb: Ambiguous Discourses and Fine-Tuning Practices for a Security Partnership -- 7 Economic Liberalism between Theory and Practice -- 8 Practices and Their Failure: Arab-Israeli Relations and the Barcelona Process -- PART FOUR: CULTURE AND IDENTITIES -- 9 The Building of Regional Security Partnership and the Security-Culture Divide in the Mediterranean Region -- 10 Turkey: Between East and West -- 11 Region-Building, European Union Normative Power, and Contested Identities: The Case of Israel -- PART FIVE: CONCLUSIONS -- 12 The EuroMed beyond Civilizational Paradigms -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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