Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Teknik Rapor, ss.1-23, 2019
This report aims at combining the research results of the previous Work Packages (1–7) of the
MEDRESET project with a view to evaluating the effectiveness and potential of EU policies. It
does so through an analysis of the EU’s framing of the Mediterranean and how it is perceived
by its Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEM) partners, how the key stakeholders depict
the region as such, and how these conceptions and perceptions of the Mediterranean are
reflected in their interaction in substantive issue areas, on the geopolitical and sectoral level.
The major argument of this report is that the EU’s depoliticizing, technocratic and securitized
approach towards the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean erodes the Union’s credibility,
detracts from its effectiveness and seriously limits its potential in terms of providing bottom-up
policies geared towards promoting democracy, human rights and the rule of law, prioritizing
development, favouring youth employment and gender equality, and creating an open, inclusive
and integrated Mediterranean region. The findings of the WPs 2–7 proved that the arguments
put forward by WP1 were accurate and the research conducted through interviews with key
stakeholders and bottom-up actors in the region and in Europe demonstrated that they also
regard the EU’s approach towards the region as highly Eurocentric, interest-driven, top-down
and thus unequal/asymmetric, as well as depoliticizing, technocratic and highly securitized.