By Michelle Pace
A willing research of the effect of eu regionalism within the Mediterranean, concentrating on the politics of illustration and structures of identity.The Mediterranean - as a area, as a space of european coverage and as a place at the edge of a swiftly integrating Europe - has been a theoretically under-researched region. Containing empirical study on Greece, Malta and Morocco, this theory-led research into the political results of the Mediterranean's symbolic geography, enhances paintings performed at the structure of entities similar to countries, Europe and the West. The Politics of neighborhood identification attracts at the box of severe IR and demanding geopolitics to check either the theoretical and empirical manifestations of those altering geopolitical photos and discourses. This publication should be of significant curiosity to all scholars and students of politics, diplomacy and the eu Union.
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A second set of interviews were conducted in three case The Politics of regional identity 10 study countries: Greece, Malta and Morocco. The objectives of this dual methodology were to: • understand the rationale of policy-makers within the EU in their policies towards the Mediterranean; • chart the policy instruments used by EU policy-makers towards the Mediterranean; • map out the EU’s policy-making process towards the Mediterranean; • analyse the images and perceptions of the Mediterranean in EU policymaking, and the impact of these images and perceptions on policy; • contrast images and perceptions of the Mediterranean in case study countries with those in Brussels; • contrast perceptions of EU policy on the Mediterranean in case study countries with EU actors’ perceptions of EU Med policy.
59 In Malta, Maltese and English were the main languages used during interviews, while in Morocco, French was mainly used with some Arabic at times, and in Greece most interviews were conducted in English or French. The aim of this selection is to show that those features these cases have in common provide a basis for a systemic comparison and explanation of their differences. The aim is not to neglect any fundamental and fairly obvious differences that exist between these societies by fitting them into a procrustean bed of structural similarities.
34 Policy is here understood as discourse as it in effect defines its object/field of knowledge. In other words, discourse is there to organise, regulate, categorise and construct: policy does exactly what discourse does – it constructs our knowledge of the international field and the parameters of our actions in it. In the case of the EMP this policy defines the Mediterranean and Europe. 36 Through this critical approach to FPA, EU elite representations of European identity through foreign policy will also be uncovered.