ABSTRACT:
Book Description:
With the process of a “wider Europe” (EU-Commission President Romano Prodi’s “ring of friends”) that extends from Marrakech in Morocco to St. Petersburg in Russia gathering speed, the growing rift between Europe and America also is about how to deal politically with the countries of the Mediterranean-Muslim world. The house of Islam (Dar al Islam) was pivotal to the European path to the Renaissance and to the re-discovery of classic Greek philosophy. The Mediterranean policy of the European Union aims at a positive and cooperative relationship with the region.
A successful integration of the Mediterranean South would have tremendous and positive repercussions for regional and world peace. World-wide leading experts from the field of world systems analysis, economics, integration theory, political science, theology and area studies, agnostics, Christians, Jews and Muslims alike discuss the issue with European decision makers. The outcome is an interdisciplinary evaluation of this projected export of peace, cooperation, dialogue and stability in the framework of world center-periphery relationships.
Table of Contents:
PART I. INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. Introductory Essay: Towards a “Kantian Peace” for the Mediterranean Region? (Peter Herrmann, University College Cork, Ireland and Arno Tausch, Ministry of Social Security, Generations and Consumer Protection in Vienna, Austria); Chapter 2. A Political Reminder: Dialogue between Cultures a Matter of Supreme Importance for Civilisation and Democracy (Pat Cox, European Parliament); PART II. THE EUROPEAN MEDITERRANEAN PARTNERSHIP; Chapter 3. The Political and Economic Aspects of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Clara Mira Salama, Banco de España); Chapter 4. The ‘Barcelona Process’ in the Framework of Neo-Liberal Globalization (Samir Amin, University of Paris VIII); PART III. THE WEST, EUROPE AND THE MUSLIM WORLD; Chapter 5. Towards a New EU Policy for the Mediterranean South? (Arno Tausch, Ministry of Social Security, Generations and Consumer Protection in Vienna, Austria); Chapter 6. September 11 2001: Diagnosis, Prognosis, Therapy (Johan Galtung, University of Hawai´i); Chapter 7. The Triumph of Fear - The U. S. War Against Iraq (Rabbi Michael Lerner, Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in San Francisco); Chapter 8. Thinking Ahead: Israel’s Future Relations with the European Union (Alfred Tovias, Hebrew University); Chapter 9. East and West (Andre Gunder Frank, Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, Luxembourg); PART IV. TOWARDS A WIDER EUROPE; Chapter 10. The New Round of European Enlargement – Changing or Fostering European Identity? (Peter Herrmann, University College Cork, Ireland); Chapter 11. “Latinamericanisation”: The Best Variant for Russia? (Some Implications for the Concept of a Wider Europe) (Victor Krassilchtchikov, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Moscow, Russia); Index.
