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dc.contributor.authorROY, Olivier
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-11T13:17:13Z
dc.date.available2012-05-11T13:17:13Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.issn1028-3625
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/21918
dc.description.abstractSecurity (fear of immigration, Islamism and terrorism) has been the main factor in the European decision to launch a protracted and complex program of cooperation and development with the Arab Mediterranean countries. The main partners of the European Union countries were the Arab authoritarian regimes, seen as the best bulwark against the “Islamist threat”. Support for the development of a civil society that could in the long term creates the conditions for a transition towards democracy was mostly subcontracted to NGO’s or independent Foundations and restricted to technical issues. But the Arab Spring showed the failure of this policy: secularism is not a prerequisite for the rise of a democratic movement, islamist parties should be engaged and not shunned, and new patterns of migration (mobility instead of immigration) should be acknowledged.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUI RSCASen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2012/20en
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGlobal Governance Programme-16en
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEurope in the Worlden
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.subjectMediterraneanen
dc.subjectEuropeen
dc.subjectIslamen
dc.subjectIslamismen
dc.subjectterrorismen
dc.subjectimmigrationen
dc.subjectsecurityen
dc.subject"arab spring"en
dc.subjectdemocratisationen
dc.subjectreligionen
dc.subjectsecularismen
dc.subject.otherEuropean security and defence policy
dc.titleEurope and the Mediterranean: When obsession for security misses the real worlden
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