Includes bibliographical references and index.

First published 2005 by Routledge.

Analyzing the foreign policies of the Middle East and North Africa: a conceptual framework -- The three environments of Middle East foreign policy making and relations with Europe -- Analyzing moroccan foreign policy and relations with Europe -- Egyptian-European relations: from confict to cooperation -- Globalization and generational change: syrian foreign policy between regional confict and european partnership -- Lebanon and Europe: the foreign policy of a penetrated state -- Propaganda versus pragmatism: iraqui foreign policy in Qasim's years, 1958-63 -- Dynamics and determinants of the GCC states' foreign policy, with special reference to the EU -- Revolution, theocratic leadership and Iran's foreign policy: implications for the Iran-EU relations -- The determinants of turkish foreign policy, and Turkey's european vocation -- Shades of opinion: the oil exporting countries and international climate politics -- Explaining international politics in the Middle East: the struggle of regional identity and systematic structure -- Afterword - Small states' diplomacy in the age of globalization: an Omani perspective.

This book provides a conceptual framework for the analysis of Middle East foreign policies, and for understanding these states' relations with Europe in particular. It examines the domestic, regional and international environments that condition these policies, and investigates the actual policy output through a wide range of country studies drawn from the Maghreb, the Nashreq, the Gulf and Turkey. Europe is treated here both as a target of these foreign policies, and as part of the environment that shapes them. -- Back cover