Abstract: The issue of securitization of the European community has consistently and significantly been a major concern of the European Union. However, since no geopolitical space can be considered as an island, there is the need for a supranational institution like the European Union to safeguard the interest of its sovereign member states by consolidating itself with the security issues of neighbouring non-European states. The reason being that most of the European states, as well as the European Union has some profitable engagement with these neighbours specifically the North African states. Since the aftermath of the Arab Spring, the European Union has developed a new mechanism in addressing security issues in the North African states. This research therefore looked at the non-militarization policy design employed by the European Union to promote political, economic and social security in North Africa. The study made use of expert in-depth interviews and relevant quantitative secondary sources to arrive at its findings. It was realised in the study that the European Union has significantly contributed to the political transformation in Tunisia, economic liberation in Morocco and enhanced social wellbeing in Algeria. There is no single North African state who has fully developed in all the European securitization processes. A country like Libya has been crawling in all these areas due to its statelessness. Egypt, in this case, has also not shown much progress due to its indecision to subscribe to the concept of Europeanization and the auxiliary prescriptions it comes with in the Egyptian sovereign geopolitical space.
Keywords: European Union, Political Security, Economic Security, Social Security, North Africa, Official Development Assistant, Money, Mobility, Market.
Title: Recognizing European Union’s Renewed Security Engagement in Africa: A Case Study of North African States, from the Post Arab Spring Period to 2018
Author: MATTHEW BOADIE – AMPONG
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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