Conceptualizing Cultural and Social Dialogue in the Euro-Mediterranean Area: A European Perspective

Previously published as a special issue of Mediterranean Politics, this collection critically analyzes the dynamics and complexities of the wider Euro-Mediterranean area on the basis of individual theory-informed designs and conceptual frameworks. Since the predominant focus has been on the first (political and security partnership) and the second baskets (economic and financial partnership) of the Barcelona Process, our contributors analyze social and cultural issues (the third basket of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership), drawing upon linkages between concepts, structures and policy outcomes. Some articles focus on the impact of the EU's actor capability in the area of EU policies towards the South in enhancing interregional dialogue, understanding and cultural cooperation. Others focus on a critical discourse analysis of dialogue, identity, power, human rights and civil society (including Western and non-Western conceptions). Finally, the volume culminates with a discussion oncultural democracy in Euro-Mediterranean relations.

Introduction: the importance of conceptualising social and cultural cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean area. Glenda G. Rosenthal, Columbia University, New York The role of culture in the third basket: A dialogic understanding of Euro-Mediterranean relations. Michelle Pace POLSIS, University of Birmingham, 1. the meaning and role of cultures in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. Tuomo Melasuo, Tampere Peace research Institute (TAPRI), Tampere 2. the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership's Third Basket - Between Incomplete Contracting and Time Inconsistency. Tobias Schumacher and Gordana Berjan, European University Institute Florence and Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs, Stockholm 3. Wounded by a deep divide between Mediterranean cultures and education. A Kantian epistemology (of the issue) in the EMP context. James Calleja, University of Malta 4. Security through inter-cultural dialogue? the case of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. Helle Malmvig, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen 5. Euro-Mediterranean integration and its impact on societies and identity-formation the case of Israel and Morocco. Stephan Stetter University of Bielefeld 6. Understanding "Euro-Mediterranean" Human Rights in practice. Laura Feliu Martinez, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 7. Setting the Cultural Agenda: Concepts, Communities and Representation in Euro-Mediterranean Relations. Raffaella A. Del Sarto, European University Institute, Florence