1st Edition

Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement The Fortress Empire

Edited By Warwick Armstrong, James Anderson Copyright 2007
260 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Under the impact of accelerated globalization, transnational integration and international security concerns, the geopolitics of Europe's borders and border regions has become an area of critical interest. The progressive enlargement of the EU has positioned its borders at the heart of recent discussions on the changing nature of the EU, the meaning of 'Europe' and what constitutional shape a... Read more

1 Singular Europe: An empire once again?

James Anderson

2 From Empire to the European Union via the National State: The Three Ages of the Irish Border

Liam O’Dowd

3 Europeanisation, identity and policy in the Northern Ireland borderlands

Thomas M. Wilson

4 Creating Border Space: An EU approach to ethnonational threat and insecurity

Cathal Mccall

5 Coping with 'Fortress Europe': Views from four seaports on the Spanish-Moroccan border

Henk Driessen

6 Europe and Islam: Partnership or peripheral dependence (borders and politics in North Africa and the Middle East)

George Joffe

7 Inside/Outside the European Union: Enlargement, migration policy and the search for Europe’s identity

Brigitta Busch and Michal Krzyzanowski

8 Fixing capitalism and Europe's peripheries: West European imperialism

James Anderson and Ian Shuttleworth

9 Carving out a ‘ring of friends’: The impact of the ENP on the figure of Europe

Pertti Joenniemi

10 New borders in a new Europe: Eliminating and making borders in Central Europe

Milan Bufon and Anton Gosar

11 Citizenship beyond the state: on the formation of civil society in the Three Border Region

Robert Minnich

12 Evolution and perspectives on intercultural coexistence at the Slovene-Italian border

Mateja Sedmark, Vezsna Sedmark and Marina Furlan

13 Ideologies of ‘Fortress Europe’ in two Slovenian/Croatian borderlands: Case studies from Žumberak and Bela Krajina

Duška Kneževic Hocevar

14 Fortress frontiers: Global power, global and local justice

Warwick Armstrong

Biography

Warwick Armstrong, James Anderson