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Introduction: Joint Ownership in Euro-Mediterranean Relations—Why It Matters

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Over the course of two decades, the task of making sense of Euro-Mediterranean relations has become ever more complex. On the one hand, the political and economic crises in Europe and the uprisings in Southern Mediterranean countries have entailed power reconfigurations at different levels. One of the key principles threading its way through the EU responses to these challenges over time has been that of joint ownership. Joint ownership is not easy to define nor to grasp and assess. It is a dynamic concept that might not be directly observable. Moreover, there are many potential policy owners. The chapter describes how joint ownership has been analysed, how it shed light on different aspects of power, asymmetry and cooperation in the global arena and how it can provide new insights into EU–Tunisia relations.

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    EU documents alternate joint ownership and co-ownership in their official documents. I will use primarily joint ownership throughout the book, unless I refer more generally to ownership by one actor (Tunisia or the EU).

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    Tunisia in the Ottoman period was ruled by Beys, officials in charge of controlling specific regions (the Beylic) on behalf of the Sultan.

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Zardo, F. (2020). Introduction: Joint Ownership in Euro-Mediterranean Relations—Why It Matters. In: Joint Ownership in EU-Tunisia Relations. The European Union in International Affairs. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30799-8_1

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