Securing the Mediterranean, inventing the `Middle East`

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dc.citation.epage59en_US
dc.citation.spage50en_US
dc.contributor.authorBilgin, Pınaren_US
dc.contributor.editorGillespie, R.
dc.contributor.editorVolpi, F.
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-24T06:54:06Z
dc.date.available2019-04-24T06:54:06Z
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of International Relationsen_US
dc.descriptionChapter 5
dc.description.abstractThis chapter traces the entry, in the 1990s, into the world stage of the ‘Euro-Mediterranean’ as a subject of security in counter-distinction to the ‘Middle East’. Where the latter prioritized insecurities as experienced by the United States and its local allies, the former was designed to address insecurities identified by the European Union. What is more, the former constituted a short-lived attempt to re-cast the ‘Euro-Mediterranean’ as a region and a security community. The significance of tracing the emergence and evolution of the spatial constructs such as the ‘Euro-Mediterranean’ and the ‘Middle East’ is not about the so-called ‘artificiality’ of ‘regions’. For all regions are ‘artificial’. Rather, the chapter seeks to highlight insecurities that shape the construction of regions, and practices that have been shaped in line with these spatial constructs. Studying the ‘Mediterranean’, ‘Arab world’ or the ‘Middle East’ is no innocent task. For, as ‘our’ spatial constructs are shaped as part of the attempt to respond to ‘our’ insecurities ‘in here’ while insecuring ‘others’ ‘out there’. Accordingly, defining regions and studying regional security in X or Y ‘region’ is a political act worthy of critical scrutiny.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781315696577-5en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781315696577en_US
dc.identifier.eisbn9781315696577
dc.identifier.isbn9781138903982
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/50917
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.ispartofRoutledge handbook of Mediterranean politicsen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315696577-5en_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315696577en_US
dc.subjectSpatial constructen_US
dc.subjectMiddle East defence treatyen_US
dc.subjectArab regional systemen_US
dc.subjectRegional security perspectiveen_US
dc.titleSecuring the Mediterranean, inventing the `Middle East`en_US
dc.typeBook Chapteren_US

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