Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Analyzing the Foreign Policies of the Middle East and North Africa: A Conceptual Framework 3. The Three Environments of Middle East Foreign Policy Making and Relations with Europe 4. Analyzing Moroccan Foreign Policy and Relations with Europe 5. Egyptian-European Relations: From Conflict to Cooperation 6. Globalization and Generational Change: Syrian Foreign Policy between Regional Conflict and European Partnership 7. Lebanon and Europe: The Foreign Policy of a Penetrated State 8. Propaganda Versus Pragmatism: Iraqi Foreign Policy in Qasim’s Years 9. Dynamics and Determinants of the GCC States’ Foreign Policy, with Special Reference to the EU 10. Revolution, Theocratic Leadership and Iran’s Foreign Policy: Implications for Iran-EU Relations 11. The Determinants of Turkish Foreign Policy, and Turkey’s European Vocation 12. Shades of Opinion: The Oil Exporting Countries and International Climate Politics 13. Explaining International Politics in the Middle East: The Struggle of Regional Identity and Systemic Structure 14. Afterword: Small States’ Diplomacy in the Age of Globalization: An Omani Perspective

About the Author

Gerd Nonneman is Reader in International Relations & Middle East Politics at Lancaster University, Associate Research Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), and Executive Director of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. Among his previous books are Iraq, the Gulf States & the War; War & Peace in the Gulf; The Middle East and Europe; Muslim Communities in Europe; and Political and Economic Liberalization.