Review article

The Process of ’Euro-Mediterraneanization’: The Union for the Mediterranean and the Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Euro-Mediterranean Policy-Making

Ana Laća ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Hrvoje Špehar ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The paper analyses the institutional arrangements of Euro-Mediterranean policies, which can be described by the process of Euro-Mediterraneanization, and in doing so the key elements of the analysis dwell on the issue of the intergovernmental, regional and foreign policies of the European Union. By recognizing the differences in different classification of the impact of Europeanization, and a possible study of one aspect of Euro-Mediterranean policies and the process of Euro-Mediterraneanization as a process of Europeanization, the paper deals with the issue of track diplomacy, the success of Euro-Mediterranean policies and, in particular, examines an example of the complementary role of non-governmental organizations in the making of successful Euro-Mediterranean policies. The analysis shows that the approach of the Barcelona Process and the institutional construction of the Union for the Mediterranean have been largely left without the desired effects, as well as that the specified institutional metamorphoses have remained only at the superficial intergovernmental level.

Keywords

Euro-Mediterraneanization; Barcelona Process; Union for the Mediterranean; Euro-Mediterranean policies; track diplomacy

Hrčak ID:

99816

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/99816

Publication date:

5.3.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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