Visions of the Mediterranean: A Classification

Brummett, Palmira

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“…She also notes that, prior to Braudel, French Orientalist George Coedès (1944) had already offered up the Mediterranean as an analogy for Southeast Asia, emulated by Srivijaya specialist Wolters (1967, 1975, 1982) and, in turn, by Indian Ocean specialist, Chaudhuri (1985, 1990). Whether viewed as Euro-centric, whether masking a narrative of collective destiny, or whether just a “picaresque Rabelaisian narrative” (Sutherland 2003: 17), few would doubt the need for vision and passion in seeking to emulate the master (Brummet 2007).…”

Section: East (Northeast)-southeast Asia As World Regionmentioning

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East-Southeast Asia in World History: The Making of a World Region

Gunn¹

2014

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Global trends which have seen the dramatic rise of the East-Southeast Asian economies suggests a turning of the wheel. Students of world history will recall the central place of China and India in the pre-modern world as producers and exporters of, variously, silks, ceramics and textiles, just as their populations and economies vastly dwarfed those of medieval Europe. The sprawling tropical zone of Southeast Asia, known historically as a prime source of spices and natural commodities, also boasted impressive civilisations. Still we are perplexed as to how a region boasting internationally known trade emporium dropped off the centre stage of world history. Reading back, did colonialism and imperialism turn the tide against indigenous agency? Or was stagnation an inevitable feature of life in pre-modern Southeast Asia? In seeking to answer these and other questions, this article both replays and critiques the many constructions of the broader East-Southeast Asia region, including its historiography, with special attention to recent trends in the framing of world-regional and global history. This is important, I argue, as localism, powerful state narratives, and the legacies of colonial conceptions and categories all contrive to ignore the importance of a holistic framing of this part of the globe.

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East-Southeast Asia in World History: The Making of a World Region

Gunn¹

2014

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“…has existed in the minds of early observers such as poets, novel writers, historians, geographers or political scientists since ancient times. Different visions and frames of the Mediterranean as a space are found on the eastern, northern and southern coastlines, in the writings of Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Battuta, Evliya Çelebi, Muhammad as-Saar, Braudel, and many others (Brummett, 2007). Similarly, early navigators of the Mediterranean such as sailors, merchants, slave traders or pirates would also have tended to see the sea as a common space in its totality or sub-regions like the Aegean, eastern Mediterranean, Adriatic and the shores of West North Africa, etc.…”

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The Mediterranean: Not a Union, but an Integrated Space?

Genç¹,

Doğan²

2018

International Journal of Political Science and Urban Studies

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This study examines several multilateral cooperation initiatives in the Mediterranean and by discussin g their failures in generating a genuine cooperation, it hypothesizes about an integrated Mediterranean space, where prime challenges might lead to a loose functional framework of integration. In putting forward this hypothetical integrated space, the study begins with discussing prime challenges in the region: security, migration and environment, and it proceeds with early multilateral cooperation attempts. Among these, it focuses its attention on two ambitious ones: Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and the Union for the Mediterranean, and underlines the disappointments in these attempts in realizing peace and prosperity in the region. The study concludes that an integrated space in the Mediterranean, which takes European integration experience as a model, might offer a better solution to the common problems in the region with a precondition that southern Mediterranean states are provided a clear perspective in a sincere and equal partnership. ÖzBu çalışma Akdeniz' deki çeşitli çok taraflı işbirliği çabalarını ele almakta ve bu işbirliği çabalarının samimi bir işbirliği tesis etme konusundaki başarısızlıklarını ortaya koymaktadır. Yazı Akdeniz' de öncelikli sorunlara odaklı gelişecek dinamiklerin gevşek bir işlevsel entegrasyon çerçevesine olanak tanıyabileceği hipotezini ileri sürer ve bölgedeki güvenlik, göç ve çevre gibi temel sorunları tartışır. Ardından, bu sorunların çözümüne yönelik erken işbirliği çabalarını ele alır. Bu işbirliği çabaları arasından, iki iddialı projeye, "Avro-Akdeniz Ortaklığı" ve "Akdeniz için Birlik"e odaklanır. Her iki projenin de bölgede barışı ve refahı sağlama konusunda beklentileri karşılayamadığının altını çizer. Sonuç olarak, Akdeniz'in, Avrupa entegrasyonunu model olarak alan entegre bir alan olarak kurgulanmasının, Akdeniz ülkelerine samimi ve eşit koşullarda, açık bir perspektif sunulması kaydıyla, ortak sorunlara daha iyi çözümler bulunmasına katkıda bulunacağı önermesini ileri sürer.The Mediterranean: Not a Union, but an Integrated Space? e63 1According to Edward W.Soja (1971, p. 1), political organization of space is characterized with the ways in which space and human interaction are structured to fulfill political functions. Deniz GENÇ • Erhan DOĞANThe Mediterranean: Not a Union, but an Integrated Space?e65 Prime Challenges in the MediterraneanAs a sea, space, and region with porous borders, the Mediterranean faces several challenges that urge all countries with Mediterranean coastlines to consider cooperation seriously. The Mediterranean is co-possessed by more than 20 countries in three different continents: Europe, Africa and Asia. As shown in Figure 1, the number of countries in the European continent with Mediterranean coastlines exceeds those in Africa and Asia.

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Savage‐Smith¹

2014

A Companion to Mediterranean History

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Visions of the Mediterranean: A Classification

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