CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Xhaferri, Elona |
|---|---|
| Title | The Political Economy of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership- A Double Edged Strategy |
| Summary | The European Union is an important donor and key player in promoting development, aid and financial and governance assistance, in North Africa and Middle East (MENA) region. The main objective of the paper is to shed light over the policy design and implementation of free trade agreement under the economic and financial cooperation the EU has launched with MENA countries. It tries to answer the question EU has met its prior objectives from initial stage like create a more sustainable socio economic development, economic growth and creation of social safety net or have failed to. This paper is founded on the assumption that there is a huge discrepancy between the overall policy objectives of the partnership and accomplished results, depicted in the case of Morocco. It argues that the design of policy objectives and implementation is oblivious of differences of each AMP partners, their socio economic indicators, political system, GDP, employment but instead treats it as homogenous region. It will verify that to achieve economic and financial development through establishment of free trade agreements (FTA) first EU must be cognizant of socio economic conditions, power relations, political structures, material and immaterial endogenous factors like political, social, cultural, and human and culture of production. The Barcelona conference is labeled a ‘genuinely European project’, where pursuit of EU’s external economic policies suggest that Euro-Med approach has rather promoted the Union’s commercial interests rather than establishment of economic development at nation or region level (Gomez, 2003a: 62). Instead this relationship has reinforced the historical asymmetry, reinforcing the leading role of EU on imposition of policies and deepening the economic dependency of AMP toward EU economies even though the overarching means of this partnership declares to it is joint ownership and cooperation. |
| Supervisor | Ass. Prof. Thilo Daniel Bodenstein |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/xhaferri_elona.pdf |
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