It has also given rise to a substantial school of historiography exploring the role of Southern Europe as both a bridge and a barrier in geopolitical terms.3 Echoes of this history and the theme of Mediterranean unity can be found in the increasingly active foreign and security policies of the Southern 2see Ada Bozeman's discussion on this and the role of marca or borderland states in the European. [...] ~ In the aftermath of the revolutions in Eastern Europe and the waning of the Cold War there was considerable concern across Southern Europe that requirements for development and investment in the east would result in a diversion of resources and political attention that might otherwise have flowed southward to the Mediterranean. [...] In the Italian case, and possibly elsewhere, the broadening of the debate on foreign affairs can be traced to deliberations over the deployment of theater nuclear forces in Europe in the early 1980s and the growing public interest in previously arcane questions of strategy.l3 l3This phenomenon is similar to that described by Peter Haas as the rise of "epistemic corrununities" in relation to enviro. [...] Observers in the European countries of the Western and Central Mediterranean often refer to an emerging "threat from the south", a notion largely unrelated to the security of territory in the traditional sense.24 Rather, it is the perceived threat to the fabric of societies unaccustomed to large scale immigration, and more broadly, fear of the spillover or milieu effects of Islamic radicalism and. [...] And the dominance of the Community, to date, by the Paris-Bonn axis, and the persistent failure of the Southern European nations either to play individual leadership roles of note, or to organize effective coalitions, reduces the significance of these countries for an outside power like the United States.
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