Security Challenges in the Mediterranean Region

This book sets out to identify the challenges to western security emerging from the Mediterranean area.

Three kinds of challenges are taken into consideration by the contributors: first, Arab political and institutional concerns on which western political responses have to be based; second, economic and social challenges; and third, the military dimension of security in the area and the low-level terrorist violence.

Though the risks springing from Islam, terrorism and military factors are pointed out by the authors, they emphasise the necessity to reinforce economic and social co-operation and provide international relations in the area with some degree of framework and political co-operation.