A Global Integration Strategy for the Mediterranean Countries

A Global Integration Strategy for the Mediterranean Countries
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Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Total Pages : 42
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ISBN-10 : 1557756473
ISBN-13 : 9781557756473
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis A Global Integration Strategy for the Mediterranean Countries by : Mr.Oleh Havrylyshyn

The economy of the Mediterranean region countries - which in the present study include Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, as well as Israel and Turkey - experienced a period of strong and dynamic economic development in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But since the 1980s these economies have experienced a much less dynamic evolution and tended toward stagnation. This paper by Oleh Havrylyshyn, presents an assessment of the experience of these economies in a framework of a broad trade strategy perspective for Mediterranean countries, and examines prospects for the future.

A Global Integration Strategy for the Mediterranean Countries

A Global Integration Strategy for the Mediterranean Countries
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Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Total Pages : 37
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ISBN-10 : 9781455252725
ISBN-13 : 1455252727
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis A Global Integration Strategy for the Mediterranean Countries by : Oli Havrylyshyn

The economy of the Mediterranean region countries - which in the present study include Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, as well as Israel and Turkey - experienced a period of strong and dynamic economic development in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But since the 1980s these economies have experienced a much less dynamic evolution and tended toward stagnation. This paper by Oleh Havrylyshyn, presents an assessment of the experience of these economies in a framework of a broad trade strategy perspective for Mediterranean countries, and examines prospects for the future.

"Beyond Containment"

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Total Pages : 28
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:227779801
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Synopsis "Beyond Containment" by : Gary A. Armistead

During the 1990s, the economic and strategic importance of the Mediterranean will increase as a consequence of: (1) continuing large scale transshipment of oil through the Mediterranean, (2) growing U.S. and European trade with the Soviet Union via the Mediterranean - Black sea lanes, and (3) expanding trade between European Community member states in and outside the Mediterranean area under the provisions of the new European Community's economic integration of 1992. Thus, the importance of maintaining-free and secure passage through the Mediterranean will increase through the 1990s and into the next century. Unfortunately, growing instability and military power in the region present complex challenges directly threatening broader U.S. economic and security interests. This essay argues that the year 2000 will find three situations defining U.S. economic and security interests in the Mediterranean region. These three situations are: (1) changing economic and security relationships between western Europe, the Soviet Union, and the U.S., (2) growing economic crisis in the developing countries along the Mediterranean, and (3) continuing regional security problems and emerging new regional powers. A review of these three situations and related security issues precedes the presentation of a regional security strategy for the 1990s that focuses on achieving strategic stability in the region. If implemented, this strategy offers stabilizing influences in the Mediterranean and supports the broader U.S. economic and security interests expected to emerge by the year 2000.

Impact of European Union Assocation Agreements on Mediterranean Countries

Impact of European Union Assocation Agreements on Mediterranean Countries
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Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Total Pages : 27
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ISBN-10 : 9781451942477
ISBN-13 : 1451942478
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Impact of European Union Assocation Agreements on Mediterranean Countries by : Mr.Henri C. Ghesquière

By establishing free trade for industrial products in 12 years, the European Union’s Association Agreements with countries in the Mediterranean region seek to promote accelerated economic growth. This paper reviews the literature and evaluates the economic benefits and costs for Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan. It concludes that the benefits could be substantial, but only if accompanied by deep supplementary reforms, including extending trade liberalization to services and agriculture and on a multilateral basis, improving the environment for foreign direct investment, ensuring an adequate fiscal and exchange rate policy response, and strengthening European Union assistance.

The Mediterranean In The Age Of Globalization

The Mediterranean In The Age Of Globalization
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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : 1412837758
ISBN-13 : 9781412837750
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mediterranean In The Age Of Globalization by : Natalia Ribas Mateos

The Mediterranean in the Age of Globalization is a welcome corrective to the tendency to present globalization as a homogenous concept, and the failure to describe how it operates in specific regions. Ribas-Mateos examines globalization and migration across the Mediterranean, using an innovative, integrated framework so as to map social places by describing how social, political, cultural, and economic forces are embedded within a globalizing environment. The author articulates an original and compelling narrative, mapping the Mediterranean as a global place where international and regional forces are intertwined in multiple threads. In doing so, she identifies two key components of globalization--affecting specifically forms of welfare and issues of mobility--in the context of a weakening European welfare state and the relocation and reinforcement of Mediterranean borders. Nine Mediterranean cities are investigated as "gateway" cities, which shape two major effects of globalization: welfare and mobility. The book challenges conventional North-South perspectives, and focuses and systematizes the way international migration should be conceptualized. The originality of the book results from the author's fieldwork, which is rich in descriptive detail, and from a theory centered around global perspectives. Seven case studies in Southern Europe--Algeciras, Athens, Barcelona, Lisbon, Naples, Turin, and Thrace--deal with issues related to migration and the welfare state. She also includes two ethnographies that represent two Mediterranean gateways in the North-South Mediterranean division: Tangiers (in Morocco) and Durres (in Albania), which are mapped as border-cities in the global Mediterranean context. Because of its intrinsically multidisciplinary nature, this superb volume will be of particular interest to academics and social science researchers as well as policymakers and international agencies. Natalia Ribas-Mateos is a Marie Curie fellow at the Mediterranean Laboratory of Sociology, Aix-en-Provence, France. Among her recent books are Una invitacin a las sociologa de las migraciones and El debate sobre la globalizacin.

Euro-Mediterranean Relations After September 11

Euro-Mediterranean Relations After September 11
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 9781135770433
ISBN-13 : 1135770433
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Euro-Mediterranean Relations After September 11 by : Annette Junemann

A comprehensive study of the nexus between democratization and security in the Mediterranean, which are seen as essentially complementary yet threatened by political trends witnessed since the September 2001 attacks. Contributors from a variety of European and Mediterranean countries address the impact of a restructured security system, Europe's effort to establish an autonomous security and defence policy, and attempts among the Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPCs) to build regional security regimes.

Financial Integration

Financial Integration
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9783642356971
ISBN-13 : 3642356974
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Financial Integration by : Marga Peeters

The Arab upheaval and the world's biggest financial crisis after the Great Depression were almost simultaneous in their occurrence. The Mediterranean economies now face a dual challenge of a political and financial restructuring in the light of a shaky economic pedestal on which they stand. In light of this socio-political and economic shift in both inland and in world markets, this book offers a thorough analysis on problems, prospects and the way ahead for the financial integration of the South-Mediterranean region. Several perspectives on financial integration and policy recommendations are put forward from a leading group of researchers specializing on the Mediterranean region.

Two Mediterranean Worlds

Two Mediterranean Worlds
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Publisher : UBC Press
Total Pages : 441
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ISBN-10 : 9780774823180
ISBN-13 : 0774823186
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Two Mediterranean Worlds by : William Donald Coleman

Observers and students of globalization struggle with two questions. Why are globalizing processes so unevenly distributed between poor and wealthy countries? What effect does this uneven distribution have on the everyday lives of ordinary people? The contributors to this volume find answers to these questions in the Mediterranean, a region divided between the relatively wealthy people of the north shore, who are engaged with Europe and modernized, and their poorer neighbours to the south, who strive daily to meet the same standards of living and modes of governance as their more Westernized neighbours to the north. In these two regions, divergent histories, economies, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, education systems, and political structures lead to explanations for uneven globalization and disparities in the achievement of individual and collective autonomy, in the Mediterranean region and around the world. These illuminating case studies show that globalization for the people of North Africa and the Near East has precipitated both a desire to build stronger ties with an ever-wary Europe and a search for individual and collective autonomy, particularly in the cultural realm. The seeds of discontent sown by these struggles underpin the demonstrations for political autonomy that sparked the Arab Spring.

The EUs Enlargement and Mediterranean Strategies

The EUs Enlargement and Mediterranean Strategies
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 421
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ISBN-10 : 9780333977811
ISBN-13 : 0333977815
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis The EUs Enlargement and Mediterranean Strategies by : M. Maresceau

This book analyses and compares the preferential relations between the EU and the countries on its eastern and southern peripheries. It presents a comprehensive study of the emerging pan-Euro-Mediterranean regional integration and analyses the economic, political and social strategies adopted by the EU and will be an indispensable reference work for those working on issues related to EU enlargement and integration.

Routledge Handbook of Mediterranean Politics

Routledge Handbook of Mediterranean Politics
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 584
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ISBN-10 : 9781317446330
ISBN-13 : 131744633X
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Mediterranean Politics by : Richard Gillespie

The Mediterranean space, defined by a major sea, a large number of littoral countries and to some extent their hinterlands, is at the same time an interface between Europe, Africa and Asia. This brings complex challenges in terms of achieving peace and stability. Recently it has received intense international attention through the internal destructiveness and spill-over from conflicts, primarily those waged in Libya, Syria and, more remotely, Iraq. This Handbook provides an overview of the political processes that shape the Mediterranean region in the contemporary context. It explores the issues of crucial importance to Mediterranean dynamics through a series of analytical sections that guide the reader towards a comprehensive understanding of the main regional interactions and trends. The Handbook explores: the complex historical formation of the contemporary Mediterranean geopolitical perspectives issues around peace and conflict the political economy of the region the role of non-state actors and social movements societal and cultural trends. The wide range of contributions from many of the leading academic experts on the region offers not only insights into the debates and processes that structure each theme, but also key pointers for a more general understanding of how distinct political, economic, social and cultural dynamics interact across the region. It will therefore be a key resource for policy-makers and students and scholars of Mediterranean politics and international relations.