Robert Mason is Associate Professor and Director of the Middle East Studies Center at The American University in Cairo 2016-19. 

Introduction.- Security Threats from the Southern Mediterranean as Viewed by Europe: A Comparative Analysis of the 'long year' of 1979 and the 2010s.- Governance and Threat Perception in the Southern Neighborhood.- EU Counterterrorism Cooperation with the MENA: Optimal or Suboptimal?.- Migration and the Mediterranean: The 'European Refugee Crisis' and the EU's Response.- Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean Energy Resources.- Russia in Syria and the Middle East: Tactics Disguised as a Strategy?.- Redefining Turkey's Role in Mediterranean Politics: An Ambitious Player Among Hostile Neighbors.- European - North African Security: The Complexity of Cooperation.- International and Gulf State Influence in the Southern Mediterranean.- Rethinking the EU Approach.