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In the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, the European Union’s (EU) relations with the Southern neighbour countries (SNCs) have been reframed in the light of a new élan of democracy promotion. The underlying logic of this approach was to leverage the building and consolidation of democracy and rule of law through enhanced cooperation in terms of more...
In the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings, the relations of the European Union (EU) with the Southern neighbourhood countries (SNCs) were reframed in the light of a new élan of democracy promotion, epitomised in the Communication on a partnership for democracy and shared prosperity (European Commission, A partnership for democracy and shared Prosperit...
The European Union (EU) has reacted to the migration crises of the last decade with growing externalization of migration management to neighbor countries often accused of not respecting human rights and individual liberties. Focusing on EU cooperation with the Southern neighborhood, as defined within the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) framework...
This article provides a re-conceptualization of human security by exploring humanitarian discourse in the EU periphery. It analyzes human security at the Mediterranean borders by focusing on humanitarian, migrant-centered discourse concerned with defending the world’s most vulnerable populations (Barnett in Annual Review of Political Science 16(1):...
Over the past decade, the European Union (EU) has faced a severe migration crisis that brought to the fore the issues of borders and security—including security at borders and the borders of security. This article introduces the special issue ‘Shifting Borders of European (In)Securities: Human Security, Border (In)Security and Mobility in Security’...
Situated on the EU’s Mediterranean borders, Italy provides the setting for a case study aimed at understanding Mediterranean migration governance in the 2010s. We adopt an actor-centred approach to explore how the Italian coast guard’s humanitarian agency was constrained and reshaped in a changed environment. We draw upon the sense-making of Italy’...
This introductory chapter conceives the Mediterranean as a critical junction between Global North and Global South (Acharya, 2014). It investigates the intertwined area at the European Union (EU) borders that we qualify as ‘Mediterranean Global South’ and focuses on contested issues at the EU Mediterranean borders. The EU Mediterranean borders are...
In the last decades a consolidated knowledge on the linkage between climate change and migration has been produced. This nexus is particularly relevant for IR scholars exploring migration as a transboundary phenomenon with multiple causes. Climate change is recognised as one of the main drivers of migration, in the Mediterranean as elsewhere, toget...
It was the intention of this edited volume to disentangle human insecurities at, across and within the Mediterranean borders. We chose to focus on various players acting in the Mediterranean Global South, that we regard as the critical junction between Global North and Global South. To move beyond traditional security approaches, we opted for rever...
This book introduces a new approach to understanding security in the Mediterranean and explores current challenges at the European Union (EU) Mediterranean borders. It investigates the intertwined area at the South of the EU that we call the ‘Mediterranean Global South’ where common actions and strategies are required to face common security challe...
In the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, the EU discourse on migration has acquired a humanitarian dimension that deserves investigation. The European Commission in particular has provided a discursive conceptualisation of the European human and humane approach to migration, promoting a change in the EU migration frame. Qualitative discourse analysis s...
The year 2015 is often labelled as the year of the Mediterranean migration crisis, with the Central Mediterranean route heavily weighting the humanitarian crisis in terms of victims. Migration and border control have then become a highly politicised issue both at European and national level entrapping the European Union (EU) in contradictory politi...
This paper combines the 'local turn' in the study of migration policy with the 'practice turn' in EU studies by analysing the humanitarian practices applied in the Sicilian city of Siracusa in the years 2013-2018. The primary interest of this research is to explore the practices by which the local community responded to the migration crisis in the...
This article explores the recent so-called Mediterranean migration crisis from the perspective of International Practice Theory (IPT). Over the years, the various non-state actors involved in addressing the crisis have developed specific humanitarian practices. Since the Mare Nostrum operation launched by the Italian government in 2013, search and...
While the Syrian refugee crisis unravels at the EU’s doorstep and as the death toll in the Mediterranean continues unabated, questions about the international community’s duty to act on behalf of the afflicted people inevitably arise, thereby fuelling convoluted debates about Responsibility to Protect (R2P). In light of the international community’...
The Mediterranean migration crisis entered the political agenda triggering a response, by the several regional actors. While public opinion requests policy-makers to close the borders, humanitarian operationa such as the Search and Rescue interventions are conducted on the ground to save human beings. .
Faced with the Mediterranean migration crisis, Italy has experienced Search and Rescue (SAR) operations aimed at saving people in distress at sea. With the Mare Nostrum operation (2013-2014) Italy has attracted the EU attention on humanitarian approaches focused more on the individuals’ protection than on border control. Due to the increasing numbe...
The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership was formed in 1995 in Barcelona. In this volume, concepts of democracy, civil society, human rights and dialogue among civilizations in the Mediterranean region are addressed in the context of the new Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.
In order to answer the question whether the establishment of European citizenship helped to develop a European identity, both institutional and empirical aspects of European citizenship and European identity will be taken into account. The distinction between the formal meaning of citizenship as established in the Treaty of Maastricht on the Europe...
Despite the common heritage of the Mediterranean populations, the Mediterranean remains a mosaic of cultures and a melting pot of civilizations too often characterized by divisions and conflicts. The EuroMediterranean Partnership represents a completely new pattern in the North-South Mediterranean relations that can lead to a better mutual understa...
An assessment of the EU international role as a normative power and its capacity to export norms of good governance (in particular democracy and human rights protection) to Mediterranean and Western Balkan countries is provided. A normative analysis is adopted to compare the EU Human Rights and Democratization (HRD) policy towards the two regional...