The European Union and the Arab Spring: Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0739174452 ISBN 13: 9780739174456

Verlag: Lexington Books, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

The European Union and the Arab Spring: Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East, edited by Joel Peters, analyzes the response of the European Union to recent uprisings in the Middle East. The past year has witnessed a wave of popular uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East which the Western media dubbed "the Arab Spring." Demanding greater freedoms, political reform, and human rights, the protesters swept away many of the region's authoritarian autocratic regimes. The events of the Arab Spring have been truly historic. They led to profound changes in the domestic order of Middle Eastern states and societies and impacted the international politics of the region. Additionally, these events necessitate a comprehensive reappraisal by the United States and most notably by the EU in their relations with the states and peoples of the region.

This timely collection brings together nine leading authorities on European foreign policy and the Middle East, and investigates three central questions: What role did the European Union play in promoting democracy and human rights in the countries of North Africa and the Middle East? How did the EU respond to the uprisings of the Arab street? What challenges is Europe now facing in its relations with the region? Peters' The European Union and the Arab Spring is at the forefront of scholarship on this historic socio-political shift in the Middle East and its wider implications for the West.

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Joel Peters is Professor of Government and International Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. He was a founder member of the department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and an Associate Research Fellow in Middle East Programme at Chatham House, London, UK. He has published several books and numerous articles and book chapters related to Israeli foreign policy and the Israeli-Palestinian peace conflict and is the lead editor (with David Newman) of the recently published Routledge Handbook on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (2013).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0739174452
• ISBN 13: 9780739174456
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180
• Herausgeber: Peters Joel
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland