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

by Luiza Bialasiewicz, Alan Ingram, Merje Kuus, Chih Yuan Woon

Overview

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. It draws on case studies that range from the Arctic to East Africa. 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409490265
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	11/28/2012
Series:	Critical Geopolitics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

introduction Europe in the World?, Luiza Bialasiewicz; Part 1 Making the Spaces of EU Action; Chapter 1 Geographies of Europeanization:, Sami Moisio; Chapter 2 Making Regions for EU Action:, Alun Jones; Chapter 3 European Spaces of Development:, Veit Bachmann; Chapter 4 The Masks of Europe in Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alex Jeffrey; Chapter 5 From the Northern Dimension to Arctic Strategies? The European Union’s Envisioning of the High Latitudes, Richard C. Powell; Part 2 The EU as (B)ordering Actor; Chapter 6 Outsourcing Asylum:, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen; Chapter 7 The European Union Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) and the Remote Control Border:, Adam Levy; Chapter 8 Off-ShoreGeographies of Migration Across and Beyond Europe:, Shinya Kitagawa;

Editorial Reviews

'Through a wide-ranging set of theoretically and empirically rich case studies, this fascinating volume shows how Europe’s changing role in the world is shaped by concrete territorial discourses and practices that are rooted in a particular conception of Europe as a historical and geographical construct. The book offers important insights into the complicated, multifaceted ways in which Europe functions as a geopolitical actor, even as it opens up new ways of doing critical geopolitics.' Alexander B. Murphy, University of Oregon, USA '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 the EU’s actions in the international arena.' LSE Review of Books 'The edited volume by Luiza Bialasiewicz offers an insightful contribution to the debates in critical geopolitics and EU external relations by taking innovative conceptual and empirical directions.' Journal of Contemporary European Research

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