02797nam a2200337Ia 4500 on1250341314 OCoLC ta 210512r20182017enk 000 0 eng d 9780367173685 0367173689 (OCoLC)1250341314 TULIB eng TULIB DS119.8.E96 E43 2018 El-Din, Amr Nasr. EU security missions and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Amr Nasr El-Din. London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. xii, 164 p. : ill., map. Routledge studies in European foreign policy ; 3 Reprint. Originally published: 2017. The EU foreign policy formulation process : intergovernmentalism and supra-nationalism -- The EU foreign policy machinery : who does what and how? -- A never-ending story : the EU and the Middle East conflict -- Seeking a role or seeking reform : EUPOL COPPS and the Palestinian Authority security sector reform -- Securing borders, securing roles : EUBAM Rafam and the EU's role at the Gaza border -- In search of answers. This book explores and analyses the various factors that affected the formulation of the common EU policy towards the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP), as well as the specifics of the process by which the EU created EUPOL COPPS and EUBAM Rafah. It answers two central questions: firstly, why and how did the EU decide to create and deploy these missions? Secondly, where do these two missions fit into the general EU approach to the conflict in the Middle East? Based on confidential interviews with various actors in the process, uniquely granted to the author, it reveals the mechanics of decision-making behind the scenes and argues that the EU decision to expand its role in the MEPP, through the creation of the two missions, was closely related to the EU's defined common interests in the Middle East. Further it shows, the missions were, mainly, the result of the EU's already established approaches to further its role in the international political arena. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of European foreign policy, EU Politics, Middle East politics and studies, foreign policy analysis, and more broadly to international relations. -- Arab-Israeli conflict, 1993- Palestinian Arabs Politics and government. European Union countries Foreign relations Israel. Israel Foreign relations European Union countries. European Union countries Foreign relations Palestine. Palestine Foreign relations European Union countries. Routledge studies in European foreign policy ; 3. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 DS119.8.E96 E43 2018 PNLIB21062395 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 2582 2582