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Cross-Border Cooperation as Conflict Transformation: Promises and Limitations in EU Peacebuilding book cover

1st Edition

Cross-Border Cooperation as Conflict Transformation Promises and Limitations in EU Peacebuilding

Edited By Maria-Adriana Deiana, Milena Komarova, Cathal McCall Copyright 2022
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge
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Has European integration helped to build peace in Europe and its neighbourhood? The book addresses this question through theoretically and empirically informed case studies that explore the successes of, and the challenges to EU cross-border cooperation as a tool for conflict transformation. Conceptually, the contributors link the question of transforming conflict to changing understandings of... Read more

Introduction - Cross-Border Cooperation as Conflict Transformation: Promises and Limitations in EU Peacebuilding 
Maria-Adriana Deiana, Milena Komarova and Cathal McCall 
1. The Irish Border as a European Union Frontier: The Implications for Managing Mobility and Conflict 
Milena Komarova and Katy Hayward 
2. Small Diplomacy: Cultural Cooperation As a Factor Alleviating Societal Tensions. The Case of Lviv and Its Polish Partner Cities 
Klaudia Nowicka, Iwona Sagan and Dominika Studzińska 
3. The Glocal Green Line: The Imperial Cartopolitical Puppeteering of Cyprus 
Rodrigo Bueno-Lacy and Henk van Houtum 
4. EU’s Cross-Border Cooperation and Conflict Transformation at Contested Borders in the European Neighbourhood: Lessons from the Turkish-Armenian Border 
Gökten Doğangün and Yelda Karadağ 
5. On (In)Definite Topography: National Identity and European and Regional Imaginaries in the Post-1989 Croatian Literary Narratives  
Ivana Trkulja 
6. Re-Thinking Border Politics at the Sarajevo Film Festival: Alternative Imaginaries of Conflict Transformation and Cross-Border Encounters 
Maria-Adriana Deiana 

Biography

Maria-Adriana Deiana is a lecturer in International Relations at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Her research deploys feminist and other critical IR perspectives to examine the interrelated issues of war, peace and security. Her publications include Gender and Citizenship: Promises of Peace in Post-Dayton Bosnia & Herzegovina (2018).

Milena Komarova is a sociologist and UK in a Changing Europe Initiative Research Fellow, based at the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Her work intersects the fields of border, conflict and urban studies, including Brexit and the Irish border.

Cathal McCall is a professor of European Politics and Borders. He has published widely on the theme of European Union cross-border cooperation and conflict transformation, including The European Union and Peacebuilding: The Cross-Border Dimension (2014).

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