The Political Changes in the Arabian Countries as Challenge for the Foreign Policy of the European Union (The Integration of Palestine and Lebanon as an Aberrant Move for Retaining the European Influence in the Region)

Abstract

Summary:

The control over the Middle East is important for European Union. The political turmoil at the beginning of 2011 there could put this control under question. There are expectations for a development in direction liberal democracy. There is also readiness to support this development, even with military force. After the long-standing support for the authoritarian governments there this approach seems suspicious. It is possible to be established in the region not liberal, but conservative (Muslim?) democracies, which might be hostile to the Western values. One is sure, that we witness considerable changes of the political systems in the Arabian countries. In this critical moment the European Union can master the process by an aberrant motion – through offering full membership to Palestine and Lebanon as a means for solving the Middle East conflict and henceforth for restoring the European prestige and control over the region.