Europe and the Arab World: Patterns and Prospects for the New Relationship

Acknowledgements; PART I THE ARAB WORLD: A BALANCE SHEET OF THE PRESENT SITUATION AND STRUGGLES; 1. The autocratic State faced with the challenge of modernity; 2. Political Islam; 3. Political conflicts and social struggles; 4. The "third sector" of social reality; 5. Community associations: a genuine effervescence or a smokescreen?; 6. Geostrategy, Arab unity and Palestinian intifadas; PART II THE MEDITERRANEAN-GULF REGION: SOME INTERNATIONAL POLICY PROBLEMS; 1. The strategic hegemony of the United States; 2. Europe and the Arab Mediterranean to the south; 3. After the Soviet collapse and the Gulf and Yugoslav wars; PART III EURO-MEDITERRANEAN RELATIONSHIPS; 1. Globalization and regionalization; 2. The Euro-Mediterranean partnership: fiction and fact; 3. The Euro-Mediterranean project: beyond the discourse; 4. The real issues at stake in the Euro-Mediterranean project; 5. The Barcelona compromise; PART IV ON THE EURO-MEDITERRANEAN PARTNERSHIP; 1. The Arab world fossilised in its powerlessness; 2. The "Euro-Mediterranean" partnership; Appendix; 1. Basic data on the Arab World; 2. Sources and bibliography; Index

Samir Amin, who was born in Egypt in 1931, has a worldwide reputation as a radical thinker on the changing nature of capitalism, North-South relations, and development theory. He has been director of IDEP (the United Nations African Institute for Planning), director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal; and a co-founder of the World Forum for Alternatives. Ali El Kenz is professor in sociology at Nantes University, France. The book is translated by Victoria Bawtree.