Security cooperation at the regional level: from opposed military alliances to security partnerships. Is the Mediterranean region on the right track? JMWP No. 45.02, October 2002

Attina, Fulvio (2002) Security cooperation at the regional level: from opposed military alliances to security partnerships. Is the Mediterranean region on the right track? JMWP No. 45.02, October 2002.

Abstract

The paper analyses the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation process within the perspective of the new regionalism studies. In particular, it deals with regional partnership building on security issues. In the first section, the concept of regional security partnership is defined. In the second and third sections, the security arrangement of Europe as regional security partnership is placed in the wider context of the change of security cooperation in the world system, and data on European and Mediterranean security cooperation are analyzed. The successive sections deal with the problems of security partnership building in the framework of the Barcelona Process. These sections and the concluding remarks give the responsibility for the suspension of security negotiation in the region to the difference of security culture on the two Mediterranean shores.