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The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: Assessing the First Decade

12/10/2005 By Haizam Amirah Fernández, Richard Youngs

Published on the eve of the high level meeting called to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP, or Barcelona Process), this book seeks to assess the achievements and shortcomings of the EMP during the last decade.

The book is the outcome of a joint effort of the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE) and the Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos.

This volume analyses some of the questions that have so far been less explored in such work. In particular, two broad categories of concern present themselves for consideration.

First, the question of how far the rich accumulation of initiatives in different thematic areas is in fact working to produce the impact to which the Barcelona Declaration aspires. Second, the issue of how the EMP is perceived from different national perspectives and how the Partnership relates to the evolving policies of national governments.

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Keywords

Barcelona Process Middle East and North Africa Political Reform

Bio author: Haizam Amirah Fernández

Haizam Amirah Fernández holds a BA from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and an MA in Arab Studies (Political Science, on a Fulbright scholarship) from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service (2001). He completed his studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and at the University of California, Los Angeles. He specializes in international relations, political Islam and transitions to democracy in the Arab world, where he has lived for a number of years.

Bio author: Richard Youngs

Richard Youngs is Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Democratisation programme at FRIDE. He also lectures at the University of Warwick in the UK. He studied at Cambridge (BA Hons) and Warwick (MA, PhD) universities.