Amin, Samir

Europe and the Arab world: patterns and prospects for the new relationship/ Samir Amin, Ali El Kenz. - London: Zed Books, 2005. - 166 p.; 22 cm.

1. The Arab world: a balance sheet of the present situation.
The autocratic state faced with the challenge of modernity ;
Political Islam ;
Political conflicts and social struggles ;
The 'third sector' of the social reality ;
Community associations: a genuine burgeoning or a smokescreen? ;
Geo-strategy, Arab unity and Palestinian intifadas. --
2. The Mediterranean-Gulf region: some international policy problems.
The strategic hegemony of the United States ;
Europe and the Arab Mediterranean to the south ;
After the Soviet collapse and the Gulf and Yugoslav wars. --
3. Euro-Mediterranean relationships: globalization and regionalization. Globalization and regionalization ;
The Euro-Mediterranean partnership: fiction and fact ;
The Euro-Mediterranean project: beyond the discourse ;
The real issues at stake in the Euro-Mediterranean project ;
The Barcelona compromise. --
4. On the Euro-Mediterranean partnership.
The Arab world fossilized in its powerlessness ;
The 'Euro-Mediterranean' partnership. --
Basic data on the Arab world.

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