Europe in the World: EU Geopolitics and the Making of European Space

Europe in the World: EU Geopolitics and the Making of European Space
ISBN-10
1317139836
ISBN-13
9781317139836
Series
Europe in the World
Category
Political Science
Pages
238
Language
English
Published
2016-04-22
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Luiza Bialasiewicz

Description

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.

Other editions

Similar books