The New Eastern Mediterranean Transformed Emerging Issues and New Actors

This collective volume examines the evolving political dynamics of the Eastern Mediterranean. Recently, both the opportunities, such as the energy resources, and the challenges, such as the enormous migration flows, have caught the international attention since they have redefined the balance of powers in the area. This volume assembles the analyses of acknowledged scholars and academics from the Eastmed countries, who assess the most fundamental developments of the region in a comprehensive manner, underscoring the significance of the Eastern Mediterranean for the world politics. The book focuses on readers and parties primarily at European level/ EU affiliated, interested in national, regional, EU or international aspects of the Eastern Mediterranean area, such as politics, security, migration governance and energy developments on regional and EU level. 

Chapter 1: The Role of Greece in the new Eastern Mediterranean.- Chapter 2: EU in the Eastern Mediterranean: multilateral and bilateral relations.- Chapter 3: The Instrumentalization of Euroscepticism in the Eastern-Mediterranean.- Chapter 4: EU-Israeli Relations in the Field of Higher Education, Lessons for the Latest Developments in the East Mediterranean Area.- Chapter 5: Testing the Waters, Pushing the Boundaries: Turkey’s Ambitions in the Eastern Mediterranean.- Chapter 6: Legal and Geopolitical Aspects of Energy Development in the Eastern Mediterranean and the EU’s Strategic Involvement.- Chapter 7: Inflammable Waters: The Energy Security Evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkish Revisionism, and the East Med Gas Pipeline.- Chapter 8: The European Perspective on the Energy Developments in Eastern Mediterranean and South East Europe.- Chapter 9: The securitization of migration and the 2015 refugee crisis: from words to actions.- Chapter 10: The European Union’s response to mass migration through the Mediterranean: a shift from humanitarian foreign policy actor towards a pragmatist foreign policy actor.- Chapter 11: Beyond EU Borders, beyond EU Responsibility: The Protection of Asylum-Seekers Rights in and outside the EU. Reflections on the X & X and Al Chodor Cases.- Chapter 12: Refugees’ Inclusion Issues: The Social Work Frameworks.

Aristotle Tziampiris is Professor of international relations, chair of the Department of International and European Studies and director of the MSc Program in energy, strategy, law & economics at the University of Piraeus, Greece.

Foteini Asderaki is Associate Professor of European integration theory and European education policy and a Jean Monnet Chair at the Department of International and European Studies, University of Piraeus, Greece.