Euro-Mediterranean versus Arab integration : are they compatible?

Abstract EN

Whilst globalization and regionalism have gained momentum all over the world during the last two decades, this is a new phenomenon in the Arab region.

Mainstream economic analysis has abstracted from the political factors underlying regionalism and its political and security implications.

This article deals with Mediterranean regionalism considering its political, security and cultural dimensions.

In order to clarify the political dimension of economic regionalism in the Mediterranean, a review of the literature on regionalism linking economics and politics is presented.

Thereafter, conceptual tools reviewed in the first section to the analysis of regionalism in the Mediterranean are applied.

Finally, perspectives faced by the different integration initiatives in the region are discussed and analyze