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Papers by Lina Aleassa
Dirāsāt, Sep 29, 2023
The study aimed to identify the dilemma of resilience for the donors and the hosts in response fo... more The study aimed to identify the dilemma of resilience for the donors and the hosts in response for the Syrian refugee crisis in the case of Jordan and the European Union (EU) and how Jordan and the EU attempt to tackle it. Methods: The study was conducted and built primarily upon textual analysis of secondary data of various texts from official European and Jordanian websites, news reports, and scholarly literature on resilience, as well as document analysis of different EU-Jordan official policies including their bilateral and multilateral agreements to trace the goals for Jordan and the EU within these policies ,the shift towards resilience as a priority for the EU, the new mechanisms and tools the EU uses to build resilience in Jordan, and how it might be a better strategy, at the same time, dilemma for them both. Results: The results of the study showed that resilience may appear as a dilemma; however, the EU and Jordan are working to resolve it through focusing on its bright side. More importantly, its role in preserving Jordan's social cohesion and its stability makes it a better security strategy than providing humanitarian assistance. Conclusions: The study recommends the need for strategies to enhance resilience in both Jordan and the EU. Jordan can boost exports to the EU by raising awareness about the rules of origin scheme, especially among remote area industries. The EU should find a balance between its humanitarian and political efforts in the region.
The European Union has drawn on its migration policy in the Middle East and North Africa as a met... more The European Union has drawn on its migration policy in the Middle East and North Africa as a method of region-building that takes resilience as its "Governing Principle" when responding to crises. The central theme of resilience is to keep refugees closer to their home instead of flowing into Europe. This approach might be promising, yet it has both positive and negative effects. In the absence of adequate resources, resilience building may exacerbate the economic, political and social vulnerabilities already existing in these countries. In addition, resilience does not seem to put an end to the refugees' suffering which, in turn, leads to increasing demands for better services, which could ultimately lead to violent riots that endanger the security of these states. Hence, resilience may seem to jeopardise rather than safeguard the security of these hosts. However, considering the case of displacement from Syria, the article focuses on the EU's approach to refugees in its neighbourhood, and attempts an in-depth analysis of the EU's refugee cooperation with Jordan, one of the key regional hosts, to argue that while resilience might be an approach with opposing effects, the EU and Jordan are working to make it a promising one. Their focus is to maintain a balance between the interests of refugees and of local communities. More importantly, the role of resilience in preserving Jordan's economic and social stability and its social cohesion makes it a more promising approach than simply providing humanitarian assistance.
Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Social Science, Humanities and Education, 2020
Chapter in a book -Conference Paper, 2020
Resilience in response for crises has become a priority for the EU in its humanitarian and develo... more Resilience in response for crises has become a priority for the EU in its humanitarian and development policy along its foreign policy including the 2015 European Neighbourhood Policy review (ENP). The EU seeks to build state and societal resilience of the Union as a whole, its members and the EU׳s neighbours including Jordan, a strategic southern partner of the EU. In this regard, the EU Building resilience in Jordan in response for crises as the Syrian refugee crisis seems workable with a little impact, thus the EU needs to foster it. Hence, this paper's question is How can the EU foster resilience in the EU's neighbourhood after it has become a priority in the 2015 (ENP) review in case of Jordan? While many scholars like David Chandler argues that the EU could foster resilience in its neighbouring countries by making it a local self-governing project and not an external imposed project where the EU has the mission of monitoring and assessment, in this paper, based on document analysis for the EU and Jordan official bilateral and multilateral agreements along reports and annual reviews about these agreements with textual analysis of the current literature on building resilience, I argue that fostering resilience requires both presenting resilience as a self-governing project with a greater engagement of the Jordanian government, local community and its civil society. At the same time, it needs a greater role of the EU at helping Jordan to establish the best institutional design that could foster state and societal resilience in Jordan with better monitoring mechanisms.
Books by Lina Aleassa
Contemporary Global Challenges in Geopolitics, Security Policy and World Economy, 2020
Resilience became a cornerstone of the 2016 EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy (EU... more Resilience became a cornerstone of the 2016 EU Global Strategy on Foreign and
Security Policy (EUGS), which refers to building state and societal resilience among
EU neighbors as one of the key strategic priorities of the EU foreign policy, as well as
an immigration combat tool, especially, after the 2015-2016 immigration crisis. Thus,
building resilience aims to secure the EU and its neighbors. Thus, this paper’s question
is What are the implications of building resilience as a security strategy for the donors
in case of the EU and Syrian refugees hosting countries in case of Jordan? Although, the
EU’s approach toward building resilience has been criticized as jeopardizing the national
security of the hosting countries by affecting the economy and the social cohesion of
the hosting countries, however, in this paper, based on document analysis from official
websites for the EU and Jordan, and textual analysis, I argued that the implications of
building resilience for the donors in case of the EU is that it is a strategy to achieve
security on the national level while for Jordan as a hosting country, it is a strategy to
achieve security on the national and humanitarian level
Dirāsāt, Sep 29, 2023
The study aimed to identify the dilemma of resilience for the donors and the hosts in response fo... more The study aimed to identify the dilemma of resilience for the donors and the hosts in response for the Syrian refugee crisis in the case of Jordan and the European Union (EU) and how Jordan and the EU attempt to tackle it. Methods: The study was conducted and built primarily upon textual analysis of secondary data of various texts from official European and Jordanian websites, news reports, and scholarly literature on resilience, as well as document analysis of different EU-Jordan official policies including their bilateral and multilateral agreements to trace the goals for Jordan and the EU within these policies ,the shift towards resilience as a priority for the EU, the new mechanisms and tools the EU uses to build resilience in Jordan, and how it might be a better strategy, at the same time, dilemma for them both. Results: The results of the study showed that resilience may appear as a dilemma; however, the EU and Jordan are working to resolve it through focusing on its bright side. More importantly, its role in preserving Jordan's social cohesion and its stability makes it a better security strategy than providing humanitarian assistance. Conclusions: The study recommends the need for strategies to enhance resilience in both Jordan and the EU. Jordan can boost exports to the EU by raising awareness about the rules of origin scheme, especially among remote area industries. The EU should find a balance between its humanitarian and political efforts in the region.
The European Union has drawn on its migration policy in the Middle East and North Africa as a met... more The European Union has drawn on its migration policy in the Middle East and North Africa as a method of region-building that takes resilience as its "Governing Principle" when responding to crises. The central theme of resilience is to keep refugees closer to their home instead of flowing into Europe. This approach might be promising, yet it has both positive and negative effects. In the absence of adequate resources, resilience building may exacerbate the economic, political and social vulnerabilities already existing in these countries. In addition, resilience does not seem to put an end to the refugees' suffering which, in turn, leads to increasing demands for better services, which could ultimately lead to violent riots that endanger the security of these states. Hence, resilience may seem to jeopardise rather than safeguard the security of these hosts. However, considering the case of displacement from Syria, the article focuses on the EU's approach to refugees in its neighbourhood, and attempts an in-depth analysis of the EU's refugee cooperation with Jordan, one of the key regional hosts, to argue that while resilience might be an approach with opposing effects, the EU and Jordan are working to make it a promising one. Their focus is to maintain a balance between the interests of refugees and of local communities. More importantly, the role of resilience in preserving Jordan's economic and social stability and its social cohesion makes it a more promising approach than simply providing humanitarian assistance.
Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Social Science, Humanities and Education, 2020
Chapter in a book -Conference Paper, 2020
Resilience in response for crises has become a priority for the EU in its humanitarian and develo... more Resilience in response for crises has become a priority for the EU in its humanitarian and development policy along its foreign policy including the 2015 European Neighbourhood Policy review (ENP). The EU seeks to build state and societal resilience of the Union as a whole, its members and the EU׳s neighbours including Jordan, a strategic southern partner of the EU. In this regard, the EU Building resilience in Jordan in response for crises as the Syrian refugee crisis seems workable with a little impact, thus the EU needs to foster it. Hence, this paper's question is How can the EU foster resilience in the EU's neighbourhood after it has become a priority in the 2015 (ENP) review in case of Jordan? While many scholars like David Chandler argues that the EU could foster resilience in its neighbouring countries by making it a local self-governing project and not an external imposed project where the EU has the mission of monitoring and assessment, in this paper, based on document analysis for the EU and Jordan official bilateral and multilateral agreements along reports and annual reviews about these agreements with textual analysis of the current literature on building resilience, I argue that fostering resilience requires both presenting resilience as a self-governing project with a greater engagement of the Jordanian government, local community and its civil society. At the same time, it needs a greater role of the EU at helping Jordan to establish the best institutional design that could foster state and societal resilience in Jordan with better monitoring mechanisms.
Contemporary Global Challenges in Geopolitics, Security Policy and World Economy, 2020
Resilience became a cornerstone of the 2016 EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy (EU... more Resilience became a cornerstone of the 2016 EU Global Strategy on Foreign and
Security Policy (EUGS), which refers to building state and societal resilience among
EU neighbors as one of the key strategic priorities of the EU foreign policy, as well as
an immigration combat tool, especially, after the 2015-2016 immigration crisis. Thus,
building resilience aims to secure the EU and its neighbors. Thus, this paper’s question
is What are the implications of building resilience as a security strategy for the donors
in case of the EU and Syrian refugees hosting countries in case of Jordan? Although, the
EU’s approach toward building resilience has been criticized as jeopardizing the national
security of the hosting countries by affecting the economy and the social cohesion of
the hosting countries, however, in this paper, based on document analysis from official
websites for the EU and Jordan, and textual analysis, I argued that the implications of
building resilience for the donors in case of the EU is that it is a strategy to achieve
security on the national level while for Jordan as a hosting country, it is a strategy to
achieve security on the national and humanitarian level