1st Edition

Geopolitical and Humanitarian Aspects of the Belarus–EU Border Conflict

224 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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).