Dividing Africa with Policy : The Influence of the Union for the Mediterranean on the Unity and Security of Africa

This book addresses timely concerns of rising African nationalism and the 2 nd decolonisation in Africa. The wholesale rejection of all things considered ‘Western’ is seen to be a result of ‘integrationalism’, defined as the specific kind of methodology by which EU foreign policy engagement may be interpreted. Using complexity theory and panarchy, a specific arrangement of interacting complex adaptive systems together with a ‘resilience assessment’, the EU’s foreign policy is shown to be undermining the aims of the premier African institution, the AU, created to provide unity and security on the continent: the EU pursues these objectives in its own image rather than honouring African values. This book raises awareness of these issues, as well as to widen the application of the theoretical framework in international relations and politics, which is becoming increasingly important in a complex world. The aim of this book is to show that the negative isolationism pursued in order to counteract western influence is not the answer and can be avoided through this awareness. Front Matter ....Pages i-vii Introduction (Lara Hierro)....Pages 1-5 Research Foundations (Lara Hierro)....Pages 7-52 Theoretical Framework (Lara Hierro)....Pages 53-87 EEC/EU Foreign Policy Towards the Mediterranean: Creating a Region (Lara Hierro)....Pages 89-117 Declarations and Process: Keeping (Institutional) Memory Alive in the Mediterranean (Lara Hierro)....Pages 119-144 Three for the Price of One: Dividing a Continent (Lara Hierro)....Pages 145-200 Resilience Assessment Part One (Lara Hierro)....Pages 201-253 Resilience Assessment Part Two (Lara Hierro)....Pages 255-313 Syntheses of Findings (Lara Hierro)....Pages 315-333 Conclusion (Lara Hierro)....Pages 335-340 Back Matter ....Pages 341-348