Projecting Resilience Across the Mediterranean

Eugenio Cusumano is Assistant Professor in International Relations at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Stefan Hofmaier is Lieutenant Colonel in the German Army working at the Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence at The Hague, The Netherlands.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Resilience in the European Union External Action.- 3. Projecting Stability to the South: NATO’s ‘New’ Mission?.- 4. The EU, Resilience and the Southern Neighbourhood after the Arab Uprisings.- 5. EU Counter-Terrorism Cooperation with the Middle East and North Africa.- 6. Sanctions as a Regional Security Instrument: EU restrictive measures examined.- 7. European Energy Security and the Resilience of Southern Mediterranean Countries.- 8. Libya: From Regime Change to State Building.- 9. Resilience to what? EU capacity-building missions in the Sahel.- 10. Resilience as a tool for conflict resolution? The UN in the Sahel region.- 11. Resilience in the Eye of the Storm: Capacity-Building in Lebanon.- 12. The Horn of Africa: NATO and the EU as partners against piracy.- 13. Paths to resilience: examining EU and NATO responses to the Tunisian and Egyptian political transitions.- 14. Civil-Military Cooperation in the Mediterranean Sea: Lessons not Learnt.- 15. Conclusions