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Title

NATO's Mediterranean initiative : policy issues and dilemmas / F. Stephen Larrabee [and others].

Publication

Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Larrabee, F. Stephen.
• Rand Corporation.
• Italy. Ministero della difesa.
• Rand Corporation. National Security Research Division.

Description

xxiii, 107 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Since 1989, NATO has concentrated most of its energy on enlargement to Eastern Europe and internal adaptation; the Mediterranean has received only sporadic attention. However, in the coming decades, the Mediterranean region is likely to become more important--real security problems may be on the Alliance's Southern periphery--in the Balkans, the Mediterranean, and the Caucasus. In addition, the expansion of the Barcelona process will force NATO to play a more active role in the Mediterranean. As the European Union (EU) becomes more deeply involved in the Mediterranean region, Mediterranean issues will increasingly become part of the European security agenda--and invariably part of NATO's agenda as well. This will make close coordination between the EU and NATO in the Mediterranean more necessary and require the two organizations to work out a more explicit division of labor. The increasing importance of such issues as drug trafficking, terrorism, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction will also thrust Mediterranean issues more forcefully onto the NATO agenda. This report discusses these issues in the context of past and present Mediterranean initiatives; in the context of dialogues with such non-NATO member countries as Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia; and with a view toward what the nature and content of the NATO policy regarding the Mediterranean should be and how it can be most effectively implemented.

Series Statement

• MR ; 957-IMD
• Rand Corporation. Monograph report ; MR-957-IMD.

Subject

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NATO
• National security > Mediterranean Region
• POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General
• National security
• Strategic aspects of individual places
• Mittelmeerpolitik
• Sicherheitspolitik
• Mediterranean Region > Strategic aspects
• Mediterranean Region
• Mittelmeerraum

Note

• "Prepared for the Italian Ministry of Defense by RAND's National Security Research Division."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Figure -- Table -- The Changing Mediterranean Security Agenda -- Rethinking Mediterranean Security -- The New Mediterranean Security Agenda -- The Internal Dimension -- The Regional Dimension -- The Transregional Dimension -- The Extra-Regional Dimension -- Key Conclusions -- Implications for the Alliance -- The Barcelona Process and Other Mediterranean Initiatives -- The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership -- The 1995 Barcelona Conference -- Progress Since Barcelona -- The EU's Future Role in the Mediterranean -- Other Mediterranean Cooperation Initiatives -- The Conference on Security and Cooperation in the Mediterranean (CSCM) -- The "Five plus Five" -- The Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation in the Mediterranean -- The Arms Control and Regional Security Working Group (ACRS) -- The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Economic Summits -- The WEU Mediterranean Framework -- The OSCE's Mediterranean Contact Group -- Complementarily and Competition -- Cooperation and Coordination -- NATO's Mediterranean Initiative -- Initial Results and Plans for the Future -- Attitudes of Member States -- U.S. Attitudes -- Prospects -- Perspectives of the Dialogue Countries -- Perspectives of the Dialogue Countries -- Perspectives of Individual Dialogue Countries on the Initiative -- Egypt -- Israel -- Jordan -- Mauritania -- Morocco -- Tunisia -- Middle East Politics and NATO's Initiative -- Bilateralism Versus Multilateralism -- Whither NATO's Mediterranean Initiative? Conclusions and Policy Recommendations.

ISBN

• 0833026054
• 9780833026057

LCCN

98014140

OCLC

• ocm38738888
• 38738888
• SCSB-377369

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library