TY - JOUR
T1 - What Can Pro-Democracy Activists in Arab Countries Expect from the European Union? Lessons from the Union's Relations with Israel
AU - Gordon, Neve
AU - Pardo, Sharon
N1 - Funding Information:
18. Document 2/14 in Sharon Pardo and Joel Peters, Israel and the European Union: A Documentary History (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012), 101. Unless otherwise mentioned, all the documents appear in Pardo and Peters, Israel and the European Union: A Documentary History; Dr. Gunnar Jarring, the Swedish ambassador to the USSR, was appointed in November 1967 by the United Nations (UN) Secretary General to help Arabs and Israelis to reach an agreement based on UN Security Council Resolution 242. The mission failed for numerous reasons.
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - In this article, we analyze the European Union's (EU) approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, showing that there is a wide gap between its normative opposition to the occupation, Israel's expanding settlement project, and the EU's foreign trade policy. Our argument is not only that there is no evidence of norm diffusion from the EU to Israel, but that within the EU itself there is no diffusion from the normative political stance to the EU's economic interests. The Israeli case suggests that the pro-democracy activists of Tunisia, Egypt, and Syria should be aware that the trade interests of the EU Member States will ultimately trump the EU's political declarations.
AB - In this article, we analyze the European Union's (EU) approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, showing that there is a wide gap between its normative opposition to the occupation, Israel's expanding settlement project, and the EU's foreign trade policy. Our argument is not only that there is no evidence of norm diffusion from the EU to Israel, but that within the EU itself there is no diffusion from the normative political stance to the EU's economic interests. The Israeli case suggests that the pro-democracy activists of Tunisia, Egypt, and Syria should be aware that the trade interests of the EU Member States will ultimately trump the EU's political declarations.
KW - EU Foreign and Security Policy
KW - EU-Israeli Relations
KW - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
KW - Middle East Peace Process
KW - Normative Power Europe
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84875355946&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17419166.2013.747834
DO - 10.1080/17419166.2013.747834
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84875355946
SN - 1741-9166
VL - 9
SP - 100
EP - 119
JO - Democracy and Security
JF - Democracy and Security
IS - 1-2
ER -
