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The chapter presents a discussion of political elite narratives and their significance before outlining the key features of European policy on the Mediterranean. It then explores critical perspectives on this before examining the views of Moroccan students. This chapter explores the dissonance between European political elite constructions of the Mediterranean, as expressed in a series of policy iterations on the region since the foundation of the European Economic Community in 1957 with the perspectives of a group of Moroccan graduate students as expressed in the context of a MEDCHANGe workshop in Casablanca.
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These were Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, the Palestinian Territories, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. The process included almost all states bordering or close to the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean. The exception was Libya which was subject to a UN sanctions regime in 1995 (Cardwell 2011: 225).
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013/ under REA grant agreement n° [612639] MEDCHANGe.
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Durac, V., Jones, A. (2019). EU Elite Representations of Mediterranean Space: Arab Student Perspectives. In: Paradiso, M. (eds) Mediterranean Mobilities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89632-8_2
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