Projecting Resilience Across the Mediterranean

This book examines the strategies pursued by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU) to foster resilience in the Middle East, Maghreb and Sahel regions, ranging from military operations to humanitarian assistance. Thanks to its constructive ambiguity, resilience can bring together policy communities and connect sponsors of reform with local societies, but also bridge rifts between and within the EU and NATO. However, existing resilience-based policies are fraught with policy, theoretical and normative dilemmas. This volume examines these dilemmas by including international relations, European politics and area studies scholars, as well as practitioners from armed forces, international organisations, humanitarian NGOs and think tanks.

Analyses the strategies adopted by NATO and the EU to foster resilience in the Middle East, Maghreb and Sahel Assesses the effectiveness of the different military, diplomatic, and humanitarian tools used by the EU and NATO to build resilience Draws on the expertise of scholars, military officers, think tank analysts, international organisation officials and humanitarians

Autorentext

Eugenio Cusumano is Assistant Professor in International Relations at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Stefan Hofmaier is Lieutenant Colonel in the German Army working at the Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence at The Hague, The Netherlands.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Resilience in the European Union External Action.- 3. Projecting Stability to the South: NATO's 'New' Mission?.- 4. The EU, Resilience and the Southern Neighbourhood after the Arab Uprisings.- 5. EU Counter-Terrorism Cooperation with the Middle East and North Africa.- 6. Sanctions as a Regional Security Instrument: EU restrictive measures examined.- 7. European Energy Security and the Resilience of Southern Mediterranean Countries.- 8. Libya: From Regime Change to State Building.- 9. Resilience to what? EU capacity-building missions in the Sahel.- 10. Resilience as a tool for conflict resolution? The UN in the Sahel region.- 11. Resilience in the Eye of the Storm: Capacity-Building in Lebanon.- 12. The Horn of Africa: NATO and the EU as partners against piracy.- 13. Paths to resilience: examining EU and NATO responses to the Tunisian and Egyptian political transitions.- 14. Civil-Military Cooperation in the Mediterranean Sea: Lessons not Learnt.- 15. Conclusions