Twenty years have passed since the creation of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) in 1995. Today, North Africa and the Middle East face unprecedented turbulence. This book collects some of the most important articles from the Mediterranean Politics journal in the last twenty years, and suggests how they shed light on the policy and analytical challenges that lie ahead in Euro-Mediterranean relations.

Introduction: Twenty Years of Euro-Mediterranean relations 1. The Barcelona conference: Launching pad of a process 2. Southern attitudes towards an integrated Mediterranean region 3. Destabilization through partnership? Euro-Mediterranean relations after the Barcelona declaration 4. Reshaping the Agenda? The Internal Politics of the Barcelona Process in the Aftermath of September 11 5. Regional Community Building and the Transformation of International Relations: The Case of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership 6. The Use of Conditionality in Support of Political, Economic and Social Rights: Unveiling the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership's True Hierarchy of Objectives? 7. Imagining Co-presence in Euro-Mediterranean Relations: The Role of 'Dialogue' 8. Talking Tough or Talking Together? European Security Discourses towards the Mediterranean 9. Converging, Diverging and Instrumentalizing European Security and Defence Policy in the Mediterranean 10. The Ties that do not Bind: The Union for the Mediterranean and the Future of Euro-Arab Relations 11. The Return of Arab Politics and Europe's Change to Engage Anew