ABSTRACT
This chapter contextualizes the constitutive role of the EC/EU's ideas and practices in the regionalization process of the Mediterranean. Nevertheless, the EU-Mediterranean regional framework has constructed some regional practices which contribute to the development of the Mediterranean regionalisation and are to be kept also as elements of the European Union (EU) policies. The thesis of this chapter is that the EU contributes to external perception by setting a model for the Mediterranean to develop as and into an EU-like region and for this reason cannot achieve efficient results of its region-building policies. Within the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) one sees more of what Pace calls 'normative regionalism'; external projection of EC/EU regionalism model to 'Southern partners', not letting the Mediterranean 'create its own region'. During the Cold War the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was very important for the production of new ideas on the Mediterranean favorable to the rise of regionness.
