Resisting Europe – Practices of Contestation in the Mediterranean Middle East

Resisting EuropePractices of Contestation in the Mediterranean Middle East\nAuthor(s): Raffaella A. Del Sarto, Simone Tholens\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472132157, 978-0472132157\nSynopsis\nResisting Europe conceptualizes the foreign policies of Europedefined as the European Union and its member statestoward the states in its immediate southern neighborhood as semi-imperial attempts to turn these states into Europes southern buffer zone, or borderlands. In these hybrid spaces, different types of rules and practices coexist and overlap, and negotiations over meaning and implementation take place. This book examines the diverse modalities by which states in the Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa (MENA) reject, resist, challenge, modify, or entirely change European policies and preferences and provides rich empirical evidence of these contestation practices in the fields o.