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By Michelle Pace The formulation and development of a new paradigm in Brussels – one that is people-based with a focus on human security – is much called for if the EU is to pursue comprehensive security in the European-Mediterranean/MENA region. In the past, the EU has placed its emphasis on conventional understandings . . . → Read More: The EU Must Focus on Human Insecurity in the Arab World By Michelle Pace 2011 was a truly historical turning point – it was a year which fundamentally changed the European Union’s (EU) previous assumption about the Middle East and North African (MENA) region – that the fall of Arab autocrats was not imminent and that the dictators of the region would remain . . . → Read More: Impact of events in Egypt on the EU: Can any lessons be learnt from the Arab Spring? Dr Michelle Pace, Reader in Politics and IR at Birmingham University, member of Mediterranean Politics‘ editorial board and long-time student of Euro-Med relations, discusses in an interview with euobserver.com what needs to be done in light of the “Arab Spring” to reinvigorate relations between the EU and the . . . → Read More: EU’s credibility at stake since Arab Spring: Michelle Pace You’ll find here a short article published recently by Richard Gillespie in Carnegie’s Arab . . . → Read More: Europe and its Arab Neighbours: New Wine in Old Skins By Richard Gillespie The outcome of last Friday’s extraordinary meeting of the European Council was inevitably a compromise between those countries pressing for urgent military action to detain Qadhafi’s repressive offensive (France, Britain), those insisting on a broader international consensus (for example, Spain) and those that are deeply sceptical (Germany) or indeed implacably opposed (Italy) to such . . . → Read More: Divided Europe Hesitates over Libya No-Fly Zone |
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