TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract………i
Dedication………...ii
Acknowledgements………iii
Table of Contents………...iv
List of Abbreviations………vii
ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION IN THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS...1
INTRODUCTION...1
1-THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO THE CONCEPT OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND INTEGRATION OF EUROPE...8
1.1 – THE CONCEPT OF THE MIDDLE EAST...8
1.1.1 ORIENTALISM...9
1.1.2 EUROCENTRISM...11
1.2 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND OF THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION...13
1.2.1 FUNCTIONALISM...14
1.2.2 NEO-FUNCTIONALISM...16
1.2.3 INTERDEPENDENCY...17
1.3 EUROPEANIZATION...18
2- THE MILESTONES TO THE CREATION OF THE COMMON FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY...20
2.1- THE EVALUATION OF THE CFSP...20
2.1.1 THE ESDP...23
3- THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE ARAB- ISRAELI CONFLICT AND ATTEMPTS TO MAKE PEACE...26
3.1- THE 1970S...26
3.1.1 THE 1973 WAR AND ITS IMPORTANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY...26
3.1.2 THE OIL CRISIS OF 1973-74...27
3.1.3 THE CAMP DAVID ACCORDS...27
3.2 THE ISRAELIS, PALESTINIANS AND ATTITUDE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY...28
3.2.1. PEACE TALKS IN 1990S...28
3.2.2 THE MADRID CONFERENCE...28
3.2.3 THE OSLO ACCORDS...29
3.2.4 THE CAMP DAVID SUMMIT...31
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3.3. DURING THE 2000S...31
3.3.1 PERIOD FROM AL-AQSA INTIFADA TO 2011...31
4-INSTRUMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION FOR THE CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IN THE ISRAEL - PALESTINIAN CONFLICT...34
4.1 BEGINNING OF THE EUROPEAN INVOLVEMENT INTO THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS AND DECLARATORY DIPLOMACY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION...34
4.2 MORE ACTIVE EUROPE IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE PROCESS IN THE 1990S...37
4.2.1 EURO-MEDITERRANEAN PARTNERSHIP...38
4.2.2 THE EU’S DIPLOMACY IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1990S AND THE BERLIN DECLARATION...42
4.3 PERFORMANCE OF THE EU IN THE POST-9/11 PERIOD, NEW DECLARATORY DIPLOMACY DOCUMENTS AND NEW INSTRUMENTS ON THE ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE PROCESS...44
4.3.1 THE MIDDLE EAST QUARTET...45
4.3.2 THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY...48
4.4 THE EUROPEAN INVOLVEMENT IN THE CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY POLICY IN THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY...51
4.4.1 EUBAM RAFAH...52
4.4.2 EUPOL COPPS...53
4.4.3 THE EU IN UNIFIL MISSION AND AS AN OBSERVER IN THE PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS...55
4.5 UNION FOR MEDITERRANEAN AS A NEW REGIONAL DIMENSION OR THE RE-START OF BARCELONA PROCESS...56
4.6 - THE EU’S MAIN POSITIONS IN THE CORE PROBLEMS OF THE ARAB- ISRAELI PEACE PROCESS...59
4.7 PROBLEMS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION IN THE PEACE PROCESS...61
5- FUTURE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE...63
PROCESS...63
5.1 TURKEY’S EU MEMBERSHIP AND ITS EFFECT ON THE EU’S ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST...65
5.2 COOPERATION BETWEEN THE EU AND THE USA IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE PROCESS AND ITS FUTURE EFFECTS...68
6- CONCLUSION...73
REFERENCES...79
APPENDIXES...86
APPENDIX I...86
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APPENDIX II...88
APPENDIX III...89
APPENDIX IV...91
APPENDIX V...93
APPENDIX VI...102
APPENDIX VII...105
APPENDIX VIII...109
APPENDIX IX...111
APPENDIX X...112
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