ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the environment in which the European Union (EU)'s foreign policy towards Hamas and the Middle East operates. International relations (IR) theories and social theories in general are used to explain, interpret and understand the policies of international states or actors, and their reflections in the sociopolitical world. By using aspects of both constructivism as a sociopolitical theory and neorealism in the analysis, the agent-structure approach, as one of the applicable tools in the analysis of the EU's foreign policy towards Hamas, is utilized to accurately describe interactivity within public arena. The EU's fixed interest in securing and sheltering Israel is a major driving factor of the EU's foreign policy in the Middle East which can be understood and justified by borrowing these aspects of neorealism. Possible domestic social powers in the Middle East, which can affect Western hegemony over political and economic decisions, have been treated as potential hazards towards Western arrangements and interests in the region.
