Security and the Environment in the Mediterranean

Security and the Environment in the Mediterranean

Hans Günter Brauch, Mohammad El -Sayed Selim, Peter H. Liotta, Bechir Chourou, Paul Rogers (Editors)
Security and the Environment in the Mediterranean
Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflicts
(Berlin – Heidelberg – New York – Barcelona – Hong Kong – London – Milan – Paris : Springer, March 2003)
Forewords by
Hon. Lord Robertson, Secretary General of NATO
Hon. Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the League of Arab States
List of Contents
Acknowledgements
Prefaces
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Jonathan Dean: Impact of the Year 2001 on Multilateral Approaches to Armed Violence
Kamel S. Abu Jaber: Jordanian Perception of Security Challenges in the Mediterranean
Sir Crispin Tickell: Risks of Conflict: Population and Resource Pressures
El Sayed Yassin: The Fall of Paradigms and the Challenge of Cultures Dialogue
Part I: Introduction: Security and Environment Linkages, Conflicts in the Mediterranean (1945-2001) and
Conflict Prevention
Chapter 1: Hans Günter Brauch, Peter Liotta and Paul Rogers: Introduction
Chapter 2: Hans Günter Brauch: Security and Environment Linkages in the Mediterranean: Three Phases of Research
on Human and Environmental Security and Peace
Chapter 3: Frank R. Pfetsch: Conflicts in and Among Mediterranean Countries (1945-2001)
Chapter 4: Michael Lund: Prevention of Violent Conflicts: A New Task of Security Policy: Lessons Learned from
Successes and Failures for the Mediterranean
Part II: Security Dialogue and Concepts: NATO’s Mediterranean Security Dialogue and Security Concept of the
European Union
Chapter 5: Nicola de Santis : NATO’s Agenda and the Mediterranean Dialogue
Chapter 6: Mohammed Kadry Said: A Southern Perspective and Assessment of NATO’s Mediterranean Security
Dialogue
Chapter 7: Félix Sanz: A European Perspective and Assessment of NATO’s Mediterranean Security Dialogue
Chapter 8: Ellen Laipson: The Future of NATO's Mediterranean Initiative
Chapter 9: Michael Köhler: The Security Concept of the European Union for the Mediterranean
Part III: Conceptualising Security in the Post-Cold War Period in the North
Chapter 10: Hans Günter Brauch: Worldviews and Mindsets: American vs. European Perspectives on Mediterranean
(Environmental) Security Policy
Chapter 11: Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and John Grin: Globalisation, States and Regionalisation: Analysing post-Cold War
Security in the Mediterranean Region
Chapter 12: Bjørn Møller: National, Societal and Human Security: A Case Study of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Chapter 13: Czeslaw Mesjasz: Economic and Financial Globalisation: Its Consequences for Security in the Early 21st
Century
Chapter 14: P. H. Liotta: Military and Environmental Security: Revisiting the Concepts in the Euro -Mediterranean
Chapter 15: Antonio Marquina: From Cooperative Security to Security Partnership in the Mediterranean
Part IV: Conceptualising Security in the Post-Cold War Period in the South
Chapter 16: Bechir Chourou: Conceptualisations of Security: A Perspective from the Maghreb
Chapter 17: Mohammad El-Sayed Selim: Conceptualising Security by Arab Mashreq Countries
Chapter 18: Mustafa Aydin: Conceptualising of Security in Turkey
Chapter 19: Ephraim Kam: Conceptualising Security in Israel
Part V: Security Challenges in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
Chapter 20: Hans Günter Brauch: National Missile Defence Programmes and Debates in the United States on the
Mediterranean: An Assessment
Chapter 21: Vicente Garrido Rebolledo and Belén Lara Fernández: Is there a Missile Threat for Europe? Justifications
for a European Missile Defence in Europe and in the Mediterranean
Chapter 22: Alessandro Politi: Soft Security Challenges: Terrorism and Organised Crime – The Open Agenda
Chapter 23: Catherine Wihtol de Wenden: Migration as an International and Domestic Security Issue
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Part VI: Security for the Mediterranean Region
Chapter 24: Stacy D. VanDeveer: Environmental Security: Conceptual Contestation and Empirical Relevance in the
Mediterranean
Chapter 25: Colin H. Kahl: The Political Ecology of Violence: Lessons for the Mediterranean
Chapter 26: Nils Petter Gleditsch: Environmental Conflict: Neomalthusians vs. Cornucopians
Part VII: Environmental Consequences of Wars in the Mediterranean (1940-2000)
Chapter 27: Hans Günter Brauch: War Impacts on the Environment in the Mediterranean and Evolution of International
Law
Chapter 28: Mohammed Kadry Said: Landmines from External Powers in World War II at El Alamein in Egypt
Chapter 29: Arthurs H.Westing: Environmental Dimension of the Gulf War of 1991
Chapter 30: Pekka Haavisto: Environmental Post-Conflict Assessments. UNEP’s work in the Balkans, Afghanistan and
Occupied Palestinian Territories
Chapter 31: Robin Twite: A Question of Priorities: Adverse Effects of the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict on the
Environment of the Region Over the Last Decade
Chapter 32: Hiroshi Oka: Activities of the Multilateral Environmental Working Group in the Middle East Peace Process
Part VIII: Population Growth and Climate Change in the Mediterranean
Chapter 33: Hania Zlotnik: The Population of the Mediterranean Region During 1950 –2000
Chapter 34: Hans-Jürgen Bolle: Climate and Climate History of the Mediterranean Basin
Chapter 35: Dimitri Georgas: Impacts of Climate Changes and Sea Level Rise on the Mediterranean Coastal Zone
Part IX: Desertification in the Mediterranean and MENA Region
Chapter 36: Monique Mainguet: Desertification: Global Degradation of Drylands
Chapter 37: Mamdou Nasr: Assessing Desertification in the Middle East and North Africa: Policy Implications
Chapter 38: Monique Mainguet, Frédéric Dumay, Han Guang, Jean-Christophe Georges: Accelerated Desertification in
the Deserts of Mauritania and China in the 20th Century
Chapter 39: Teresa Mendizabal and Juan Puigdefábregas: Population and Land-use Changes: Impacts on Desertification
in Southern Europe and in the Maghreb
Part X: Water Scarcity in the Mediterranean and MENA Region
Chapter 40: Anthony Allan: Water Security in the Middle East and the Mediterranean
Chapter 41: Branko Bošnjakoviæ : Shared Ground Water Resource Management and Protection in the Mediterranean A
Joint Approach by United Nations Agencies
Chapter 42: Ines Dombrowsky: Water Accords in the Middle East Peace Process: Moving towards Cooperation?
Chapter 43: Waltina Scheumann: The Euphrates Issue in Turkish-Syrian Relations
Chapter 44: Henrike Peichert: The Nile Basin Initiative: A Catalyst for Cooperation
Part XI: Food and Urbanisation in the Mediterranean and MENA Region
Chapter 45: Philippe Collomb : Population Growth and Food Security in the Countries of the Middle East and North
Africa
Chapter 46: Nikos Alexandratos: Mediterranean Countries and World Markets: Basic Foods and Mediterranean
Products
Chapter 47: Bechir Chourou: Implications of Declining Food Supplies: Food Security vs. Market Economy
Chapter 48: Djilali Sari: Increasing Urbanisation and Pollution in the MENA Region: Causes of Conflicts?
Part XII: Outcome of Environmental Stress: From Natural Disasters to Disaster Prevention
Chapter 49: Hans Günter Brauch: Natural Disasters in the Mediterranean (1900-2001): From Disaster Response to
Disaster Preparedness
Chapter 50: Johann G. Goldammer: Towards International Cooperation in Managing Forest Fire Disasters in the
Mediterranean Region
Part XIII: Empirical and Theoretical Results and Conceptual Conclusions
Chapter 51: Hans Günter Brauch: Towards a Fourth Phase of Research on Human and Environmental Security and
Peace: Conceptual Conclusions
Chapter 52: Hans Günter Brauch, Mohammad El Sayed Selim, P.H. Liotta: Security Concepts for Cooperation and
Partnership in the Mediterranean: Conclusions and Outlook for the 21st Century
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Part XIV: Appendix
List of Abbreviations
Bibliography
On the Authors of Forewords and Prefaces, Editors, and Contributors
Index
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