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This paper suggests that Middle Eastern instability has revealed the shortcomings of the EU’s existing approach to the region, prompting calls for the Union to be more strategic and geopolitical. In response to these calls, the author contends that while the EU must be more geopolitically sensitive to changes in the Middle East, it also needs to ensure that when it alters its policy, it does not do so in a way that could harm its interests in the future by ignoring what drives instability and no longer promoting reform.