EFSPS - Mediterranean Region

People

The listed members of the EFSPS program have a deep understanding in the area of Mediterranean Region

Projects

The following projects by EFSPS members are in the context of Mediterranean Region

Civil Protection in the Mediterranean region: security community-building beyond EU enlargement? by Niklas Bremberg

This research project aims to contribute to the understanding of the European Union’s (EU) role in international security. On a theoretical level it seeks to explore the problem of how ... read more

Connecting the EU with Its Neighbours: Towards a New European Foreign Policy? by Michele Comelli

Aim of the project The project has the following goals: to carry out an in-depth analysis of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) aimed at identifying both its potential for development ... read more

DE-SECURITIZING FOREIGN POLICY UNPACKING THE IMPACT OF EUROPEANIZATION: THE CYPRUS CASE by Alper Kaliber

The Cyprus conflict is characterized by mutual/extensive securitizations through which the other is represented as existential threat against which the national identity and security should be secured. Owing to various ... read more

EU-UN Coordination in the field of Security and Development in the Mediterranean and Middle East by Daniele Marchesi

The objective of research is to flag out and analyse some of the determinants of EU-UN cooperation, by identifying the circumstances and factors that favour or hinder the consistent cooperation ... read more

European Foreign Policy: Identity, Representation and Practices: Contested Meanings and Values by Bohdana Dimitrovova

The External Image of the EU: Views from North Africa In recent years, the European Union has strengthened its claims of becoming a distinctly different type of actor with the ... read more

EUROPEAN POLICYMAKERS THREAT PERCEPTIONS SINCE 9/11 by Ruth Hanau Santini

The theme of my research was looking at whether and how threat perceptions have influenced the evolution of European foreign policy since 9/11. In order to do that, I have ... read more

Exporting Security Beyond the EU: Under What Conditions do Security Sector Reform Policies Succeed? by Ursula Schroeder

The project examines recent EU Security Sector Reform (SSR) activities. Faced with a rising number of transnational security challenges that adversely affect the EU’s domestic security sphere, internal security assistance ... read more

The Mediterranean Dimension of EU's Internal Security by Sarah Wolff

Interested in the External Dimension of Justice and Home Affairs this project looks into the Mediterranean Dimension of EU's internal Security. Arguing that JHA has become an objective of European ... read more

Publications

Several publications by EFSPS members are in the area of Mediterranean Region

• Marchesi, Daniele (2011): "EU-UN cooperation in Security and Development: The Role of the European Commission" , Presented at the 2011 EUSA conference in Boston, March 2011
• Kaliber, Alper (2009): Re-imagining Cyprus: The Rise of Regionalism in Turkey’s Security Lexicon, Cyprus: A Conflict at the Crossroads, T. Diez and N. Tocci (eds.), (Manchester: Manchester University Press)
• Bremberg, Niklas / Ahmed Driss, Jakob Horst, Eduard Soler i Lecha / Isabelle Werenfels (2009): Flexible Multilateralism: Unlimited Opportunities? The Case of Civil Protection in the Mediterranean, EuroMeSCo Papers, no.80 http://www.euromesco.net/images/paper80eng.pdf
• Wolff, Sarah (2008): España y la Gobernanza de la Seguridad Mediterránea. Vecinos, Espacios y Actores, Cidob –Revista Cidob d’Afers Internacionals (num 79/80 forthcoming)
• Bremberg, Niklas (2008): Från Barcelonaprocess till Medelhavsunion – och tillbaka igen? [From Barcelona process to Mediterranean Union – and back again?], Internationella Studier, 2008:2, pp.12-19
• Marchesi, Daniele (2008): “From EMP to ENP: Saving the Southern Periphery from Marginalisation?” , Chapter in Mahncke Dieter and Gstöhl Sieglinde (eds.), Europe's Near Abroad: Promises and Prospects of the EU's Neighbourhood Policy, College of Europe Studies, Peter Lang Brussels, May 2008
• Marchesi, Daniele / R.Matarazzo (2008): “Intervista a Benita Ferrero Waldner: In Medio Oriente l’Europa sta facendo la sua parte”, Affarinternazionali, 21/02/2008, http://www.affarinternazionali.it/articolo.asp?ID=740
• Wolff, Sarah (2007): La dimension méditerranéenne de la politique Justice et Affaires intérieures, Cultures & Conflits (66, summer 2007) (www.conflits.org)
• Baracani, Elena (2007): Pre-accession and Neighbourhood: The European Union’s democratic conditionality in Turkey and Morocco, A. Jünemann and M. Knodt (eds) Externe Demokratieförderung durch die Europäische Union. European External Democracy Promotion, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 335-348
• Bremberg, Niklas (2007): Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Euro-Mediterranean Security Revisited, Mediterranean Politics, 12:1, pp.1-16
• Wolff, Sarah (2006): The externalisation of Justice and Home Affairs to the Southern Neighbours: the EU's dilemmas in the fight against terrorism, The EuroMeSCo Annual Conference 2006 “Paths to Democracy and Inclusion within Diversity" - Working Group on ‘The Linkage Between Justice and Terrorism in the Euro-Mediterranean Area’, Istanbul. (www.euromesco.net/images/wg5_swolff_paper_en_for.doc)
• Baracani, Elena (2006): L’Unione Europea e la Promozione della Democrazia. I casi di Turchia e Serbia [The European Union and Democracy Promotion. The Cases of Turkey and Serbia], PhD Thesis, University of Florence
• Baracani, Elena (2006): L’Unione europea e la democratizzazione di Turchia e Marocco, CIRES Working Paper, 3-2006
• Kajnč, Sabina / ŠABIČ, Zlatko (2005): Sredozemska razsežnost Evropske unije [Mediterranean Dimension of the European Union]. , FERFILA, Bogomil (ed.), FERFILA, Bogomil. Travelling with Europe : Slovenia in European Union : Slovenija v Evropski uniji,. Ljubljana: Fakulteta za družbene vede, 2005, p. 509-529.
• Baracani, Elena (2005): La strategia di promozione della democrazia dell'Unione europea, CIRES Working Paper, 2-2005