EU-Jordan Partnership׃Fostering Resilience in the aftermath of the 2015 European Neighbourhood Policy Review

Abstract

: 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.