Points of difference, cases for cooperation: European critiques of US Middle East policy

Middle East Report

Volumn 28, Issue 208, 1998, Pages 30-32

  Perthes, Volker ^a  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AND SECURITY AFFAIRS   (Germany)

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EID: 0002941208     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3013407     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Regarding issues discussed in the US-European dialogue on the Middle East, see Robert D. Blackwill and Michael Stürmer, eds., Allies Divided: Transatlantic Policies for the Greater Middle East (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997). Note that throughout this article, "Europe" is used as shorthand for the member states of the European Union (EU).
2. Cf. Eberhard Rhein, "Europe and the Mediterranean: A Newly Emerging Geopolitical Area?," European Foreign Affairs Review 1 (1996), pp. 79-86.
3. By issuing presidential waivers, the US administration has avoided open conflict over European economic engagements with Iran.
4. George Joffé, "The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: Two Years after Barcelona," Royal Institute of International Affairs Briefing Paper No. 44 (May 1998), p.1.
5. See also Dominique Moïsi, "Europe's backyard: The EU should be more active in Middle East peace talks," Financial Times, October 13, 1997: "Seen from Europe," he writes, "Washington's strategy could be summarized - unfairly, of course - as: "The situation is extremely dangerous and explosive: it is imperative that we do as little as possible'."
6. See Malcolm Rifkind, "Blueprint for a region at peace," The Financial Times, November 5, 1996.
7. See Richard N. Haas, "The United States, Europe, and the Middle East Peace Process," in Blackwill and Stürmer, pp. 75-77.
8. For a more detailed discussion of Europe's policies towards the Middle East and the peace process, see, among others, François D'Alançon, "The EC looks to a New Middle East," Journal of Palestine Studies 23/2 (1994), pp. 44-51;
9. Ghassan Salamé, "Torn between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean: Europe and the Middle East in the Post-Cold War Era," Middle East Journal 48/2 (1994), pp. 226-49;
10. Rosemary Hollis, "Europe and the Middle East: Power by Stealth?," International Affairs 73/1 (1996), pp. 15-29;
11. Paul Marie de La Gorce, "Europe and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Survey," Journal of Palestine Studies 26/3 (1997), pp. 5-16;
12. Muriel Asseburg and Volker Perthes, eds., Surviving the Stalemate: Approaches to Strengthening the Palestinian Entity (Baden-Baden: Nomos Publishers, in press).
13. Aside from the so-called political and security partnership, the Barcelona process involves two other "baskets," referred to as the economic and financial partnership and the partnership in social, cultural and human affairs.
14. For more details, see Fred Tanner, "The Euro-Med Partnership: Prospects for Arms Limitations and Confidence Building after Malta," The International Spectator 32 (April-June 1997), pp. 3-25.
15. Dominique Moïsi, "Europe in the Middle East: A New Combination of Modesty and Ambition," in Advancing Common Purposes in the Broad Middle East: A Report to the Trilateral Commission Robert H. Pelletreau, ed., (New York: The Triangle Papers, No. 52, April 1998), pp. 27-30.