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Geopolitical and Humanitarian Aspects of the Belarus–EU Border Conflict
This book provides a broad geopolitical and legal analysis of the longer-term dispute between the Belarusian regime and the European Union, played out through conflict on the Polish–Belarusian border, which started in 2021.
Although Poland finds itself at the center of this conflict, the book covers all countries whose territorial integrity has been affected, revealing a Belarusian regime taking advantage of the refugee crisis as a tool of hybrid warfare for destabilizing the political situation. As such, it also examines the role of Russia and its influence by means of its Belarusian neighbor, exposing the underlying motivations and mechanisms used by the Lukashenko regime towards the European community.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Central and Eastern European politics, EU politics, migration politics/studies, global governance, human rights, crisis management and, more broadly, to international relations, security studies, and international law.
Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Licence (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Part 1: Weaponized Migrations as a Tool of Hybrid Warfare
1. ‘We are targets of a hybrid war’: An engineered migration crisis as a regime survival strategy and legitimation ‘mission’
Ekaterina Pierson-Lyzhina and Piotr Sula
2. Genesis, course and scale of the conflict on the border of Belarus with EU member states in a comparative approach
Kamil Glinka, Agnieszka Miarka, Witold Sokała and Patrycja Matusz
3. Between long-term hybrid geopolitical conflict and the ad hoc instrumentalisation of migratory pressure: Nature and specifics of the Polish–Belarusian border crisis
Adam R. Bartnicki and Justyna Olędzka
4. Crisis management at the EU's external borders in the face of migratory pressures
Anna Moraczewska
5. Unravelling the spectacle of militarised border management: The use of Polish Territorial Defence Forces (TDF) in the Polish-Belarusian border crisis
Maciej Stępka and Agata Mazurkiewicz
Part 2: Between Legal Procedures and Humanitarian Dimension
6. Detention of foreigners in the procedure of applying for international protection in Europe
Laura Kwoczała and Ewa Kaczorowska
7. Criminalization of humanitarian aid delivery
Joanna Marszałek-Kawa, Patryk Wawrzyński and Anna Jaczun
8. The image of the conflict on the Polish–Belarusian border in Polish internet portals
Mariusz Kolczyński and Anna Rubaj
Part 3: Coercive Engineered Migration from International and Domestic Perspective
9. Has Belarus violated international law?
Elżbieta Kużelewska, Izabela Kraśnicka and Agnieszka Piekutowska
10. The position and response of the EU to the migrant crisis on the Belarusian border
Anna Doliwa-Klepacka and Mieczysława Zdanowicz
11. Lithuania's legal response to migration crisis: Theory and practice in the context of national security and human rights
Edita Gruodytė and Gediminas Buciunas
12. Latvia's response to the migration crisis on the Belarusian border: A legal perspective
Arnis Buka, Kristīne Dupate, Baiba Kiršteina and Vadim Mantrov
13. Poland's response to the migration crisis on the Belarusian border: A legal perspective
Magdalena Perkowska, Anita Adamczyk and Fuad Jomma
Biography
Elżbieta Kużelewska is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok, Poland, and Vice-Dean for Science (2019–2024).
Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka is Professor of Political Science, Director of the Institute of International Relations and Public Policy, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland.
Karolina Pałka-Suchojad is Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Relations and Public Policies, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland.
Agnieszka Piekutowska is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Finance, University of Bialystok, Poland, and Vice-Dean for Institutional Cooperation and Internationalization (2019–2024).
