1st Edition

Conceptualizing Cultural and Social Dialogue in the Euro-Mediterranean Area A European Perspective

Edited By Michelle Pace, Tobias Schumacher Copyright 2007
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

Previously published as a special issue of Mediterranean Politics, this collection critically analyzes the dynamics and complexities of the wider Euro-Mediterranean area on the basis of individual theory-informed designs and conceptual frameworks. Since the predominant focus has been on the first (political and security partnership) and the second baskets (economic and financial partnership)... Read more
1 Preface: The Importance of Conceptualizing Cultural and Social Co-operation in the Euro-Mediterranean Area 2 Introduction: The Study of Euro-Mediterranean Cultural and Social Co-operation in Perspective 3 Imagining Co-presence in Euro-Mediterranean Relations: The Role of ‘Dialogue’ 4 Setting the (Cultural) Agenda: Concepts, Communities and Representation in Euro-Mediterranean Relations 5 The Politics of De-Paradoxification in Euro-Mediterranean Relations: Semantics and Structures of ‘Cultural Dialogue’ 6 Security through Intercultural Dialogue? Implications of the Securitization of Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue between Cultures 7 Global Civil Society Across the Mediterranean: The Case of Human Rights 8 EU Relations with Islam in the Context of the EMP’s Cultural Dialogue 9 Wounded by a Divide Syndrome. The Impact of Education and Employment on Euro-Med Cohesion 10 Conclusion: Cultural Democracy in Euro-Mediterranean Relations?

Biography

Michelle Pace is Research Councils United Kingdom (RCUK, Roberts) fellow at the European Research Institute, the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Tobias Schumacher is Deputy Manager of the EuroMeSCo Secretariat and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic and International Studies (IEEI), Lisbon, Portugal.