Bulletin n. 1/2017 | ||
June 2017 | ||
Taylan Özgür Kaya |
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The USA and the EU as a third party in Middle East peacemaking: an asymmetric division of labour | ||
in Journal of Transatlantic Studies , Volume 15, Issue 2 , 2017 , 143-160 | ||
This article aims to analyse the role played by the USA and the European Union (EU) in Middle East peacemaking. It argues that there exists a de facto division of labour between two actors. While the USA has played a primary role and acted as the principal mediator in successive mediation efforts and dominated political and diplomatic dimension of the peace process; the EU was relegated to a secondary and supplementary role and has mainly focused on economic and financial dimension of the peace process and the creation of the structural conditions for sustainable peace which aimed to complement peacemaking efforts at the diplomatic level. | ||