Cataloged from PDF version of article.In the academic literature on EU – southern Mediterranean relations, a focal
point of neglect has been the gendered dimension of Euro-Mediterranean relations. This
article argues that the Euro-Mediterranean space has been formed within the gendered global
West/non-West relations with the purpose of promoting the West’s security interests. EuroMediterranean
security relations, thus, embody a gendered power hierarchy between the
hybrid hegemonic masculinity of the EU (bourgeois-rational and citizen-warrior) and the
subordinate (both feminized and hypermasculinized) southern neighbourhood. In addition, it
shows that following the Arab Spring the EU has been determined to maintain the status quo
by reconstructing these gendered power relations. This gender analysis contributes to the
literature on Euro-Mediterranean relations through its specific focus on the (re)construction
processes of gendered identities within the West/non-West context in tandem with the EU’s
competing notions of securit