EAN: 9783319184517

NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF TH...

This book looks both backward and forward with regard to the European Union's 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 EU's
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 EU's 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.

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