Overview
- Provides a comprehensive assessment of the various dimensions of the relationship between the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council
- Reassesses the potential and prospects for the EU’s engagement with GCC countries based on the recalibration and reconciliation of both parties’ national and regional interests
- Examines a key dimension of the relationship, its current status, and its path forward
Part of the book series: Contemporary Gulf Studies (CGS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the various dimensions of the relationship between the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council, and highlights how relations are yet to reach their full potential. Despite both parties sharing a number of common interests, including trade, energy, climate change, security and cultural cooperation, the multilateral cooperation framework remains limited, with most engagement taking place bilaterally, between individual European and GCC countries. The book reassesses the potential and prospects for the EU’s engagement with GCC countries based on the recalibration and reconciliation of both parties’ national and regional interests. Taking a thematic approach, each of the three sections of the book examines a key dimension of the relationship, its current status and its path forward.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Adel Abdel Ghafar is a fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings and at the Brookings Doha Center, where he was previously Director of Research. He specializes in political economy and his research interests include state-society relations, socio-economic development and foreign policy in the MENA region.
Dr Silvia Colombo is Senior Fellow in the Mediterranean and Middle East and Italy’s Foreign Policy programs at the Rome-based Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). She is an expert on Middle Eastern politics and in this capacity she is working on Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, EU-GCC relations, political and security developments in the MENA, conflict management and democratization, and gender and youth inclusion.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council
Book Subtitle: Towards a New Path
Editors: Adel Abdel Ghafar, Silvia Colombo
Series Title: Contemporary Gulf Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0279-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0278-8Published: 04 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-0279-5Published: 03 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-320X
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3218
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 248
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Middle Eastern Politics, European Politics