gaza strip

News and Business

Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen - Vol. 62 Num. 2, Juin 2007

National Security Aspects of Western-Middle East Free Trade Agreements

This paper looks upon the developments of Free Trade Agreements in relation to security aspects in the Middle East, with a special concern of the Jordanian situation. The author analyses the trade relations between Jordan and the EU as well as the US and compares these relations to the ones of other countries in the region with the two major western trading blocs. After a description of the historical development of these relations, the author provides a picture of the current situation and b...