The ultimate test case: Can Europe and America forge a joint strategy for the wider Middle East?

International Affairs

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 665-686

  Everts, Steven ^a,b  

^a Centre for European Reform (CER)   (United Kingdom)

^b Transatlantic Programme

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EID: 3142701589     PISSN: 00205850     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2004.00410.x     Document Type: Review

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1. This apt phrase, which predates the Iraq debacle, was formulated by Javier Solana, the EU's High Representative for the CFSP. It can be found in the EU Security Strategy adopted by the European Council in Brussels on 12 December 2003: A secure Europe in a better world: European security strategy, available on http://www.iss-eu.org/solana/solana.pdf.
2. See Marta Dassù (untitled) in G. Lindstrom and B. Schmitt, eds, One year on: lessons from Iraq, Chaillot Papers no. 68 (Paris: EU Institute for Security Studies, March 2004), pp. 29-41.
3. Michael Getter, 'Wanted: more Woodwards (and Bernsteins)', Washington Post, 2 May 2004.
4. See Christoph Bertram (untitled) in Lindstrom and Schmitt, eds, One year on, pp. 13-19.
5. See the poll commissioned one year after the start of the conflict by, inter alia, the BBC. Results are available on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ middle_east/3514504.stm.
6. Financial Times, 19 May 2004.
7. Philip Gordon, 'US must fight for Europe's soul', Financial Times, 2 June 2003.
8. See e.g. Irish Times, 17 April 2004.
9. See e.g. Martin Indyk, 'A trusteeship for Palestine?', Foreign Affairs 82: 3, May-June 2003.
10. See Steven Everts, 'Why NATO must keep the Mid East peace', Financial Times, 29 July 2003.
11. See e.g. the article in Ha'aretz on 11 March 2004: http://www. haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=402996&contrassID=1.
12. The rules of origin dispute involves products made in Israeli settlements. Israel claims these products should be able to enter the EU market under the preferential tariff offered to Israel in its association agreement with the EU. The EU argues that these products should not be labelled 'made in Israel' and that a higher tariff should apply. It has asked Israel to put in place adequate procedures to separate products made in Israel within the 1967 borders from those made in settlements. At the time of writing (May 2004) there was no mutually agreed solution.
13. See Steven Everts, Engaging Iran: a test case for EU foreign policy (London: Centre for European Reform, March 2004).
14. Solana, A secure Europe in a better world.
15. Agreed Statement at the end of a visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran by the foreign ministers of Great Britain, France and Germany, also known as the Tehran Declaration, 21 Oct. 2003: available on www.fco.gov.uk.
16. Marina Ottoway, Promoting democracy in the Middle East: the problem of US credibility, Carnegie Working Paper no. 35 (Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2003).
17. 'No healing of the wounds a year after Iraq war, global survey finds', International Herald Tribune, 17 March 2004.
18. The following section is partly based on an article I wrote with several colleagues: Urban Ahlin, Ronald Asmus, Steven Everts, Jana Hybaskova, Mark Leonard, Michael McFaul and Michael Mertes, 'A joint plan to help the Greater Middle East', International Herald Tribune, 15 March 2004.