Increasing attention is being paid to the interaction of international relations with the process of European integration and the Euro-Mediterranean area. After the entry into the EEC of Greece, Spain and Portugal in the eighties, the birth of the European Union, the enlargement to the countries of Eastern Europe and to Cyprus, Malta and Slovenia, the international context after 11 September 2001, the 'pressing ISIS, the convulsions of the Middle East, the resurgence of migratory phenomena, the difficulties of Europe to speak with one voice on the global scene, have led scholars to reconsider with new sensibilities the geo-political dynamics, economic and cultural developments developed between Europe and the Mediterranean. Through a multidisciplinary and comparative approach, the volume proposes to simultaneously read - throughout the post-WWII period - the integration process, the policies for regional development, the projection of the EEC / EU in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, with equal attention to the role of the EU in international relations-- ‡c Provided by publisher.