This book looks both backward and forward with regard to the European Unions political strategies towards its neighbouring countries. By bringing together the perspectives of critical geopolitics, policy studies and border studies, it presents a comprehensive review of the European Neighbourhood Policy and how it impacts the ongoing construction of the EUs external frontiers.
Is the EU committed to promoting integration in a wider European space, or is a fortress Europe emerging where the strengthening of internal cohesion is coupled with the militarisation of its external borders? The book aims to problematize this question by showing how the EUs external policies are based on a mixture of openness and closure, inclusion and exclusion, cooperation and securitisation. The European Neighbourhood Policy is a controversial strategy where regionalization and bordering, homogenisations and differentiations, centrifugal and centripetal forces proceed side-by-side, in an explicit attempt to construct a selective, mobile and fragmented border.
A specific focus is devoted to the diversity of geo-strategies the EU is pursuing in its neighbouring countries and regions, macro-regional strategies and cross-border cooperation initiatives as new scales of cooperation, and the role of other global players.Preface; Luiza Bialasiewicz.- Chapter 1: Beyond Fortress EUrope? Bordering and Cross-Bordering along the European External Frontiers; Filippo Celata and Raffaella Coletti.- Chapter 2: Bordering, Border Politics and Cross-Border Cooperation in Europe; James W. Scott.- Chapter 3: The ENP, Region-Building and Bordering along the EUs External Frontiers; Filippo Celata, Raffaella Coletti and Enrica Polizzi*.- Chapter 4: Cross-Border Cooperation along the EUs External Frontiers; Filippo Celata, Raffaella Coletti.- Chapter 5: Future Perspectives for the European Neighbourhood Policy; Battistina Cugusi.- Chapter 6: Macro-regional Strategies and the Rescaling oflă&
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