EU Security Discourse: Creating New Regional Boundaries in the Mediterranean and Gulf Regions
Vieira, Telmo J.
Date: 1 July 2006
Journal
PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs
Publisher
T.C Dışişleri Bakanlığı
Abstract
The European Union (EU) as an international actor has slowly been
incorporated into geopolitical reality, by academics and other international
actors. This makes it all the more important to understand how the EU sees
the world in which it interacts and what role security matters play in this
construction. In this article we will ...
The European Union (EU) as an international actor has slowly been
incorporated into geopolitical reality, by academics and other international
actors. This makes it all the more important to understand how the EU sees
the world in which it interacts and what role security matters play in this
construction. In this article we will analyse how the EU constructs regions.
We will be looking at how the Mediterranean and the Gulf in particular are
represented as regions by the EU. The EU relationship with the
Mediterranean is quite developed, but as to the Gulf there is still much to do.
This is slowly changing; recently the EU began considering a regional
approach due to increasing security concerns. The current trend in
discourse incorporates the Gulf countries into a wider Middle East, perhaps
signalling the beginning of a coherent regional strategy for what could
become another area of insecurity in EU eyes.
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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