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What are the achievements, the limits and the failures of the EU´s involvement in the Arab-Israeli conflict? This book sets out to answer this question by analysing the development of European policy towards the conflict over the last forty years.

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Introduction European Political Cooperation and the Middle East Conflict The EU and the Middle East Peace Process: From Hope to Despair The EU Strategy for the Middle East Peace Process in the 9/11 Era European Foreign Policy and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process The Instruments of European Foreign Policy and their Use in the Case of the Arab-Israeli Peace Process Transatlantic Relations and the Middle East Conclusion

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"The most updated historical background and an original, stimulating and variable analysis of the EU´s policy towards the Arab-Israeli conflict available today. This makes the book obligatory reading for academics, graduates and policy makers researching and dealing with the Union´s foreign policy, in general, and Euro-Middle Eastern relations, in particular.´

- European Foreign Affairs Review

´With a focus on two major issues in international relations (EU foreign policy and the MEPP), this book fully succeeds in contributing to academic debates on EU actorness.´

- The International Spectator

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COSTANZA MUSU is Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada. She obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and Assistant Professor of International Relations at Richmond University (London-UK). She is the Editor, with Nicola Casarini, of European Foreign Policy in an Evolving International System.

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