The Geopolitics of Europes Identity Centers, Boundaries, and Margins [Hardcover]

This book pursues an original perspective on Europe's shifting extent and geopolitical standing: how countries and spaces marginal to it impact on Europe as a center. A theoretical discussion of borders and margins is developed, and set against nine studies of countries, regions, and identities seen as marginal to Europe.PART I: THE NATURE OF MARGINAL FORMATIONS Introduction: Space Centres,?and Margins: the Constructive and the Constructed; N.Parker Delimitation: The Denigration of Boundaries in the Political Thought of Late Modernity; S.Prosorov Power and Marginality in the International System: A Historical Perspective; P.Joenniemmi &? N.Parker PART II: MARGINS AROUND EUROPE Exploiting Marginality: The Case of Russia; M.David An Encounter of Two Marginalities: EU-Russia Trans-Border Relations in Russian Discourse; A.S.Makarychev Denmark's and Britain's Marginality Strategies Compared; N.Parker Europe and a Globalizing USA: Political Ideals Projected and Counter-Projected; N.Parker Gibraltar, Jerusalem, Kaliningrad: Peripherality, Marginality, Hybridity; C.Browning & P.Joenniemmi Notions of Europe: Where Does Europe's Southern Margin Lie?; M.Pace The Ritual of Listening to Foreigner: Appropriating Geopolitics in Central Europe; M.Kuus Between the Balkans and Europe: Boundary Making in Contemporary Croatian and Slovenian Discourse; N.Lindstrom Variable Geometries: Institutions, Power, and Ideas in Turkey's European Integration Process; F.Tassinari Conclusion; N.Parker

This edited collection. . .offers one of the most erudite and discerning renditions of the geopolitics of Europe's identity to date. It would be of benefit to anyone who is serious about European politics, international relations theory and geopolitics. - Emilian Kavalski, Political Studies Review The Geopolitics of Europe's Identity is an innovative and exciting excursion into the new geopolitics of political space. The splendid collection of essays uses the European case to synthesilÃ&