Influence of the European Community/Union's ideas and regional practices on the regionalisation process in the Mediterranean

Bojinović Fenko, Ana (author)

The main aim of the working paper is to understand the effect of the European Union (EU) as an external actor on the regionalisation process in the Mediterranean. The author offers an upgrade of New Regionalism Approach (NRA),initiated by Hettne and Söderbaum (1998, 2000), and applies it to the Mediterranean area. She claims that the change of regionality (regionness) canbe understood through analysing change in regional social structure (regional practices and norms based on common and collective knowledge respectfully). In this aim, the research shows the effect of the EU's ideas/perceptions and interests conducted through its (EU) foreign policy regional practices on the creation and development of Mediterranean regional practices and norms. Meta-theoretically the conceptualisation is reflectivist and theoretical approach to International Relations is (agency-based) social constructivism. The working paper's main argument is: it is primarily due to the narrow and instrumental EU perceptions (ideas) of the Mediterranean as a fixed reality (region) that the EU in its relations with the Mediterranean embarks on the logic of consequences and also makes other actors follow this foreign policy behaviour (practices). Therefore, the EU regional practices translated into Mediterranean regional practices have up to now not been reproduced with success, let alone to be able to launch the regional norms, logic of appropriateness and raise the Mediterranean regionness

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 2.13 - Treatise, Preliminary Study, Study
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Place of publishing: [S. l.]
• Publisher: GANET
• Year: 2008
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-44920
• UDC: 327
• COBISS.SI-ID: 27689821
• Publication date in RUL: 10.07.2015