The European Union’s Mediterranean Policy: Model or Muddle? [electronic resource] : A New Institutionalist Perspective /
Knio, Karim.author.
By analysing case studies through the lens of new constructivist Institutionalist perspective, this book sheds new light on the failure of EU policies in the Mediterranean. It suggests that these failures are the result of problems at the very heart of EU policy-making which clearly privilege economic concerns over social concerns.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Model or Muddle?; 2 Institutionalisms - An Overview; 3 Delineating the Muddle: From 'Patchy' Frameworks to the European-Mediterranean Partnership; 4 Emergence and Consolidation of a 'Model': The European-Mediterranean Partnership and Beyond; 5 The Role of Ideas and Interests in the EU-Mediterranean Policy; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
By analysing case studies through the lens of new constructivist Institutionalist perspective, this book sheds new light on the failure of EU policies in the Mediterranean. It suggests that these failures are the result of problems at the very heart of EU policy-making which clearly privilege economic concerns over social concerns.
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