Europe in the World (Critical Geopolitics)

ISBN 10: 0754679845 / ISBN 13: 9780754679844

Published by Routledge, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Europe in the World (Critical Geopolitics)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754679845
• ISBN 13: 9780754679844
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This edited volume provides an innovative contribution to the debate on contemporary European geopolitics by tracing some of the new political geographies and geographical imaginations emergent within - and made possible by - the EU's actions in the international arena. Drawing on case studies that range from the Arctic to East Africa, the nine empirical chapters provide a critical geopolitical reading of the ways in which particular places, countries, and regions are brought into the EU's orbit and the ways in which they are made to work for 'EU'rope. The analyses look at how the spaces of 'EU'ropean power and actorness are narrated and created, but also at how 'EU'rope's discursive (and material) strategies of incorporation are differently appropriated by local and regional elites, from the southern shores of the Mediterranean to Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The question of EU border management is a particularly important concern of several contributions, highlighting some of the ways in which the Union's border-work is actively (re)making the European space.

About the Author

Luiza Bialasiewicz is an Associate Professor of European Studies at the Department of European Studies , Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands