Author: Andrew M. Watson
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780772708168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hayat Alvi
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study analyzes the effects of globalization on the Middle East region, specifically examining inter-Arab relations and affairs along with the international, regional, and institutional criteria for Middle East regional integration. By cross-examining similar schemes of regionalism in Latin America and Southeast Asia, the various political, economic, and institutional means by which such integration is brought about are established. This study should appeal to scholars of political science, economics, sociology, and Middle Eastern studies.
Author: Tarik Oumazzane
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-03-25
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9813364521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyses and assesses the Agadir Agreement’s impact on economic integration, its effect on political cooperation, and its role in promoting peace between participating countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Since the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011, the geo-political situation in MENA has further drifted towards instability and uncertainty. Expert analysis of the region seems to lurch from one crisis to another without moving beyond a focus on conflict. Few scholars have recognised that the MENA governments have long regarded regional economic integration as a chief policy objective to facilitate intra-regional trade and promote political cooperation and peace. Realising the shortcomings of the various integrative processes, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan signed the Agadir Agreement in 2004. To this date, it stands as one of the most significant economic agreements in the MENA region. Taking into account this variety of factors, this book offers a new assessment of the pull between unity and disunity in the Middle East and North Africa region
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The University of Toronto Centre for International Studies presents a database of information from "Economic Cooperation and Integration in the Middle East: A Literature Survey." The database contains a bibliography of recent literature concerning economic cooperation and integration in the Middle East.
Author: Gideon Fishelson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-12
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0429722028
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is an outcome of conference on Economic Cooperation in the Middle East held at Tel Aviv University in 1986. It examines economic integration in the Middle East, its implications and possible costs. The book analyzes the consequences of peace and economic cooperation in the Middle East.
Author: Ali Carkoglu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-07-08
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1134648863
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the current anatomy of regional cooperation and why it has often failed to take hold. It offers an alternative view of politics and international relations in the Middle East. The findings show that co-operation between many of the more open regimes, such as Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Palestine and Turkey can pave the way to increased stability in the region. The authors argue that focusing on international and regional factors alone is insufficient in explaining the prevailing instability in the region. Instead they highlight domestic factors as crucial to understanding conflict and co-operation in the Middle East. Using many examples and looking particularly at Turkey's experiences, this study shows why it is essential to mobilize domestic support for co-operation amongst countries and regions of the Middle East. Without such support from economic and social groups, inter-governmental co-operation is less likely to last.
Author: Andrew M. Watson
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780772708151
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Benjamin Hätinger
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2010-09
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 3640695062
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Diploma Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 2,3, University of Hohenheim, language: English, abstract: In this study it is intended to investigate today ́s actual economic interdependence of what we would call the Middle East and North African (MENA) region and to analyze its economic interweaving, both among its member countries and into the global trading system. Being aware of the complexity and breadth of this topic, the author has chosen only three subset economic integration agreements, both between the countries of the MENA region (intraregional) - also comprising a subregional agreement - and between the MENA region and other regions (interregional), for closer analysis. Concerning the efforts made towards interregional economic integration, this thesis concentrates mainly on the so-called EU-MED Partnership which was initiated at the Barcelona Conference in 1995 and aims to establish an EU-Med Free Trade Area (EMFTA) by the year 2010 including the EU and the 12 so-called Mediterranean countries which, apart from Malta, Cyprus and Turkey, all belong to the MENA region. In contrast, on the intraregional level, the latest initiative in 1997 will be examined, where 17 out of 22 Arab League member states - all of which also belong to the MENA region apart from Sudan - joined to constitute a "Greater Arab Free Trade Area" (GAFTA, mainly to get rid of traditional trade barriers for goods. On the smaller subregional level, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), consisting of 6 Gulf countries, which plans the establishment of a common currency by 2010, will be examined more closely. With GAFTA, GCC and the EU-MED Partnership all being in a different depth of integration and each representing one of the three different levels of integration (subregional, intraregional, interregional), the author holds the view that this choice reflects the actual state of integration in the region best. In a nutshell, this study tests the