The Mediterranean region has historically been the stage and avenue for war as well as peace and trade throughout millennia. Emanating from meetings and negotiations started on October 30, 1991 at the Peace Conference in Madrid, following the suggestions of then U.S. President G.W.H. Bush and Soviet President M. Gorbachev following the Iraq-Kuwaiti war, the structure of the Madrid Framework for a bilateral and a multilateral negotiating track was developed. It enabled the first-ever direct talks between Israel and her immediate Arab neighbors on November 3, 1991. These negotiations focused on key issues of concern to the entire Middle East: water, environment, arms control, refugees and economic development. These negotiations led to the first Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Foreign Ministers of the future EuroMed Partnership member states in Barcelona in November 1995 and marked the official starting point of the EuroMed Partnership (EMP), its main objectives focusing on the political, economic and social-cultural rapprochement among its member states. To add saliency to these goals, the EMP was relaunched, following French President Sarkozy's initiative, in July 2008 as the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM). While the U.S. was neither involved in the EMP per se, nor in the UfM, but followed its own Mediterranean/(greater) Middle East foreign policies, European, Southern Mediterranean, Middle East and U.S. strategies continue to intersect in the greater Mediterranean region, especially in light of the EU's evolving Common Security and Defense Policy, and the broad security sectors and levels (Buzan, Waever and de Wilde 1998), which come into play in this region and its inter-regional dynamics. This paper seeks to analyze specifically the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats which this newly evolving Union for the Mediterranean faces in light of these dynamics as well as global norms pertaining to security, be they human security (e.g. in terms of (illegal) migration pressures, economic security or based on gender equality pertaining to economic access), or energy security to name just a few in the context of a possible Euro-Mediterranean Regional Security Complex context (Boening 2008).