Between Europe and the Mediterranean The Challenges and the Fears [Hardcover]

Historians, anthropologists, political scientists and demographers explore the principal challenges and fears characterizing relations between Europe and the Mediterranean. The contributors suggest that the greatest challenge facing our political generation is no longer forming a Europe without the Mediterranean, but with it.Introduction; T.Fabre & P.Sant Cassia PART 1: THE CHALLENGES OF DEMOGRAPHY AND MIGRATION Demographic Transition in Europe and around the Mediterranean; C.Wilson Does Europe Need New Immigration?; C.Witold de Wenden Putting Asylum to the Test: Between Immigration Policy and Co-Development; S.Mazzella The Mediterranean Divide and its Echo in the Sahara: New Migratory Routes and New Barriers on the Path to the Mediterranean; A.Bensaad PART 2 : THE CHALLENGES OF IDENTITIES AND CULTURES Identity, Nationalism and Anthropologists; M.Couroucli Altering the Perspective; D.Albera Identity Crises and Value Conflicts; A.F.Ansary The Face of the Foreigner: Reflections on the Case of Lebanon's Palestinians; D.Meier PART 3: POLITICAL CHALLENGES Turkish Conservatism: Turkey in Europe or Apart from Europe?; H.Yilmaz Europe in the Mirror of the Mediterranean; K.NicolaIdis & D.NicolaIdis PART 4 : GEOPOLITICAL FEARS AND INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES Europe, America and the 'Greater' Middle East; M.Bond Expansion Towards the South: An Alternative Scenario for a Partnership in Crisis; J.R.Henry The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: Reformulating a Process; T.FabreTHIERRY FABRE is at the University of Aix-Marseilles, France.

PAUL SANT CASSIA is Reader in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Durham, UK.