ABSTRACT:
This collection of essays looks at the future of Euro-Mediterranean and Euro-Muslim relations in the framework of a wider Europe and in the framework of the capitalist world system. With the process of the east central European enlargement of the European Union about to be completed on May 1st 2004, the relations of the European Union with the countries further east and south enter the main stage of the political debate.
The very idea of a constructive, convergent relationship between a core area of the West – the European Union – and the Muslim world might be against the spirit of the time. Indeed, the Euro-Mediterranean relationship, if successful, might be a showcase to the world that not cultural warfare, but cooperation can be a model for the 21st Century.
Contributors: Samir Amin, Syed M. Ahsan, Pat Cox, Andre Gunder Frank, Johan Galtung, Peter Herrmann, Gernot Köhler, Victor Krassilchtchikov, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Syed Mansoob Murshed, Hans-Heinrich Nolte, John R. Oneal, Kunibert Raffer, Bruce Russett, Clara Mira Salama, David Skidmore, Arno Tausch, The First Declaration of Alexandria, Alfred Tovias, and Patrick Ziltener
