Bulletin n. 3/2014
February 2015
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Bicchi Federica
    ‘Lost in transition:’ EU Foreign Policy and the European Neighbourhood Policy Post-Arab Spring
    in Europe en formation (L') , n° 371, 2014/1 ,  2014 ,  26-40
    The article assesses the response of the European Union to the Arab uprisings, by focusing on the Southern dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). It shows that the EU vision for the Mediterranean has faded and it has been lost in the transition that Arab countries have been experiencing. Two aspects are analysed. First, the article shows the slow but relentless decline of regionalism as an EU foreign policy goal. The trend started prior to the Arab uprisings and in fact with the launch of the ENP, but the reliance on bilateralism ended up curtailing the European role as the Arab spring led to more fragmentation in the area. Second, the article addresses EU foreign aid to Arab Mediterranean countries and shows that since the inception of the Arab spring the EU has been nominally committing more funds, but actually disbursing less because of the opening gap between conditions for spending the funds and conditions on the ground.
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