Emanuel Adler is the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Federica Bicchi is a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Beverly Crawford is a professor with the Center for German and European Studieds at the University of California, Berkeley. Raffaella A. Del Sarto is a Marie Curie Fellow with the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute.

• Acknowledgments PART ONE: THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Normative Power: The European Practice of Region-Building and the Case of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership EMANUEL ADLER and BEVERLY CRAWFORDPART TWO: LOGIC AND MODELS OF REGION-BUILDING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN Mare Nostrum? The Sources, Logic, and Dilemmas of the Euro-Mediterranean PartnershipETEL SOLINGEN and SABA KENSES OZYURTA Political Agenda for Region-Building? The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and Democracy Promotion in North AfricaRICHARD GILLESPIEThe Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and Sub-Regionalism: A Case of Region-Building?STEPHEN C. CALLEYAPART THREE: INSTRUMENTS AND PRACTICES OF REGION-BUILDING The European Origins of Euro-Mediterranean Practices FEDERICA BICCHIPolitical Securitization and Democratization in the Maghreb: Ambiguous Discourses and Fine-Tuning Practices for a Security PartnershipSAID HADDADIEconomic Liberalism between Theory and PracticeALFRED TOVIASPractices and Their Failure: Arab-Israeli Relations and the Barcelona ProcessJOEL PETERSPART FOUR: CULTURE AND IDENTITIES The Building of Regional Security Partnership and the Security-Culture Divide in the Mediterranean Region FULVIO ATTINÀTurkey: Between East and WestMETÌN HEPERRegion-Building, European Union Normative Power, and Contested Identities: The Case of Israel RAFFAELLA A. DEL SARTOPART FIVE: CONCLUSIONS The EuroMed beyond Civilizational ParadigmsKALYPSO NICOLAÏDIS and DIMITRI NICOLAÏDISContributorsIndex

"'The Convergence of Civilizations is a fascinating exploration of how regions are constructed in world politics. It uses the case of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership to inquire into the conditions under which a group of countries and peoples come to feel themselves somehow connected to each other. The authors are pioneers in the constructivist research program, and this book constitutes an important empirical contribution to a new and exciting way of thinking about international relations.' -Jeffrey Kopstein, Director, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto"