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The EU Mediterranean States, the Migration Issue and the ‘Threat’ from the South

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Eldorado or Fortress? Migration in Southern Europe

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It has recently been fashionable to ask whether the Mediterranean Sea constitutes a bridge or a barrier between the two shores. On 27 February 1995 the United States’ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs, Joseph Kruzel, stated:

Today the real threat to European security comes not from the northern region, where much of the Alliance’s attention is now focused, but in the south, where existing conflicts and potential for catastrophe are pervasive … For NATO, the Mediterranean, rather than the Elbe, has become the front line for a variety of security issues ranging from the spread to extremism and uncontrolled migration to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (de Rato, 1995, p. 7).

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  1. Charalambos Tsardanidis
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  1. The School of European Studies, University of Sussex, UK

    Russell King (Professor of Geography and Dean) (Professor of Geography and Dean)

  2. University of Dundee, UK

    Gabriella Lazaridis (Lecturer in Politics and Social Policy) (Lecturer in Politics and Social Policy)

  3. Institute of International Economic Relations, Athens, Greece

    Charalambos Tsardanidis (Director) (Director)

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Tsardanidis, C., Guerra, S. (2000). The EU Mediterranean States, the Migration Issue and the ‘Threat’ from the South. In: King, R., Lazaridis, G., Tsardanidis, C. (eds) Eldorado or Fortress? Migration in Southern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333982525_15

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