From security to economy and back?

In this paper, I have showed that both the EMP and the GMP emerged from European security concerns and that both expressed the `civilian' nature of the EC/EU. Both initiatives addressed the Mediterranean as a region. The EMP more consciously aimed at constructing a security region, a finding in line with A&C's approach. The instruments that have been established in pursuit of this aim contribute to an understanding of the types of values enshrined in the EMP. It is my opinion that the EMP derives more from an EU model than from a CSCE model. This proximity of values between the EU and the EMP could be described as a `legitimacy by contagion,' as member states and European institutions tend to transfer values and principles shaped in the context of the EU into the EMP. Furthermore, they might apply to the Mediterranean partners a particularly crude interpretation of the EU model. How and why the Mediterranean partners are going to internalise this set of values is a question that requires further inquiry. While the EMP could be seen as partially coercing, partially socialising Mediterranean regimes into a new mind-set, at the same time there could be some conditions in Euro-Mediterranean relations that might contribute to a certain willingness on the part of Mediterranean partners to actually adhere to a particular model. Whereas this paper has surveyed the main elements of the empirical evidence of Euro-Mediterranean relations, its contribution to the questions of values and transmission mechanisms remains tentative.

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