| CODE | EST5350 | |||||||||
| TITLE | The European Union and its Mediterranean Neighbourhood | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | European Studies | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The EU’s Mediterranean Neighbourhood is important to the Union in many ways. A number of conflicts in the region such as the Middle East Problem, the division of Cyprus and the Spanish Sahara threaten the region’s stability with the likelihood of spill over onto the EU itself. The region is of economic importance to the Union, the source of most of its energy. The Mediterranean environment is also important to the EU, climate change and the worsening water stress, the depletion of fish stocks and social problems such as migration make the Mediterranean situation one of the ‘hottest’ on the Union’s borders. This study-unit focuses on the main EU policies in the region, namely the EU Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and the EU’s approach to the so called ‘frozen conflicts’ in the region. Reading List (This is only a select bibliography – Other texts will be made available as the course material is continuously updated with new developments) - Mediterranean Union for the Mediterranean Final Declaration, Paris, July 2008 - Marseille Foreign Ministers Meeting, November 2008 - Web-page of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) - Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament, “Wider Europe – Neighbourhood: a New Framework for Relations with Our Eastern and Southern Neighbours”, Com (2003) 104 final, Brussels, 11.03.2003 - Communication from the Commission, “A Strong European Neighbourhood Policy”, Com (2007) 774 final, 05.12.2007 - European Parliament Report on Strengthening the European Neighbourhood Policy (Tannock et al.), A6-0414/2007, 26.10.2007 - Piotr Maciej Kaczynski and Piotr Kazmierkiewiccz, “European Neighbourhood Policy: Differentiation and Political Bench Marks”, EuroMesCo paper, No 44 - Karen E. Smith, “The Outsiders: the European Neighbourhood Policy”, International Affairs, 81, 4 (2005), pp 757-773 - Setter Stephan, “Theorizing the European Neighbourhood Policy: Debordering and Rebordering in the”, EUI Working Papers, RSCAS 2005/34 - Barcelona Declaration (1995) - Ministerial Declarations - EU Common Strategy for the Mediterranean Region - EU Strategic Partnership with the Mediterranean and the Middle East - UNDP Arab Human Development Reports (copies will be made available) - Alexandria Statement 2004 - Country Reports on Human Rights published annually by the USA State Department (for the Mediterranean Countries) - Statements by The Quartet, UN Web-page - Roderick Pace, Stelios Stavridis, and Dimitris K. Xenakis “Parliaments and Civil Society Cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership”, Mediterranean Quarterly, Winter 2004 - Ioannis Seimenis and Miltiadis Makriyannis “Reinvigorating the Parliamentary Dimension of the Barcelona Process: The Establishment of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly”, Mediterranean Quarterly, Spring 2005 - Governance indicators on Mediterranean Countries available at the World Bank governance programme |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite: Students who do not have a politics background must successfully complete the supplementary study-unit EST2140. Failure in submitting the Seminar Paper or an unjustified absence in the Examination will result in an overall fail. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Roderick Pace |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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