This workshop seeks to answer: What is the process(es) of policy learning for the participants in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) in the last thirty years? And is policy learning a one-dimensional process? It aims to analyse the thirty-year trajectory of the EMP through the lessons, not only acquired by EU policy-makers, but also by the most important stakeholders during this period. Our assumption is based on the premise that the EMP is a construction that involves different actors, such as the EU institutions, governments and civil society actors, who have different aspirations and goals from the EMP.
Scholarly debates surrounding the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) continuity and change center on whether the EU learns from its past mistakes and unintended consequences. Some argue that despite deficits, the EU has made incremental efforts to act as a normative power, reducing transaction costs for all involved. Conversely, critics claim the EU maintains its course, reinforcing existing asymmetries and prioritising its security. Going beyond such dichotomies, the workshop analyses the thirty-year trajectory of the EMP through the lessons, not only acquired by EU policy-makers, but also by the most important stakeholders during this period. Our assumption is based on the premise that the EMP is a construction that involves different actors, such as the EU institutions, governments and civil society organizations, who have different aspirations and goals from the EMP. In this sense, the workshop enriches the existing knowledge that the discipline has about policy learning by underlining the repercussions of the EMP on different actors, inducing different ideas and assessments of success and failure.
1: What are the process(es) of policy learning for the participants in the EMP in the last thirty years?
2: What are the mechanisms of policy learning on Euro-Mediterranean relations?
3: Which parameters determine the impact of policy learning on Euro-Mediterranean relations?
1: EU democracy promotion in the Arab Mediterranean countries
2: EU-led reforms for gender equality in the Arab Mediterranean countries
3: EU initiatives for sustainable development in the Arab Mediterranean countries
4: Security cooperation between the EU and the Arab Mediterranean countries
5: EU energy policy in the Arab Mediterranean countries
6: EU environmental policy in the Arab Mediterranean countries
7: EU engagement with the Arab Mediterranean civil society
