The 2011 Revised European Neighbourhood Policy: Continuity and Change in EU Foreign Policy
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Year: 2016

The EU’s relations with its eastern and southern neighbours have never attracted as much attention as in recent years. The outbreak of what was prematurely called the ‘Arab Spring’ in early 2011, the fall of supposedly consolidated autocratic regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, the eruption and continuation of the civil war in Syria, the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh), the military coup of 3 July 2013 in Egypt leading to the ousting of the first ever democrat