Interventions in the new political geographies of the European ‘neighborhood’

Białasiewicz, Luiza; Dahlman, Carl T.; Apuzzo, Gian Matteo; Ciută, Felix; Jones, Alun; Rumford, Chris; Wodak, Ruth; Anderson, James; Ingram, Alan

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2008.12.002

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“…Instead, bordering is manifested in a wide range of locations away from the state border bringing a wide range of actors and institutions and following diverse spatio-temporal logics and mechanisms that are hard to explain solely from a state-centred perspective (İşleyen 2018b). Borders are also constructed within and beyond states, which requires us to move away from the territorial demarcation lines between states (Bialasiewicz et al 2009).…”

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The European Union and Practices of Governing Space and Population in Contested States: Insights from EUPOL COPPS in Palestine

Bouris

İşleyen

2018

Geopolitics

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This paper examines the EU Police Mission in the Palestinian Territories (EUPOL COPPS) with a focus on its effects on everyday police work on the ground. The main argument is that the mission illustrates the ways in which its training and advisory activities work to foster logics and practices that feed into and reproduce the borders that have over the years been imposed, primarily through Israeli security practices. Operating under conditions of contested statehood, EUPOL COPPS promotes Palestinian policing activities based on particular spatial logics and actions as to the governance of the Palestinian population. The article presents new empirical material collected through interviews and document analysis. As such, it aims to build bridges between the literature on critical border studies, EU external relations, the EU's role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well as the literature on the EU police missions in conflict and post-conflict missions by emphasising their spatial dimension.

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Section: Bordering and The Governance Of Space And Mobilitymentioning

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“…We are especially interested in conceptual debates over 'borderwork' (Rumford 2006(Rumford , 2012 and 'bordering' (Bialasiewicz et al 2009;Pallister-Wilkins 2017). The examination of EUPOL COPPS would be incomplete without looking at its spatial dimension.…”

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The European Union and Practices of Governing Space and Population in Contested States: Insights from EUPOL COPPS in Palestine

Bouris

İşleyen

2018

Geopolitics

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“…This is particularly evident when observing how the ENP political discourse implies a peculiar assemblage of “border transcending” and “border confirming” practices (Dimitrovova ). As already mentioned, the ‘invention’ of this new geographical entity – that of the Neighbourhood – is aimed at bringing partner countries closer to the EU while at the same time excluding them from full accession (Bialasiewicz et al ).…”

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Beyond Fortress Europe. Unbounding European Normative Power and the Neighbourhood Policy

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Coletti

2016

Geography Compass

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The article critically scrutinizes the geographical assumptions which pervade most accounts of the European Neighbourhood Policy. Both the policy's proponents and opponents often rely on a too restrictive inside/outside distinction and do not properly acknowledge the peculiar territorialities which ‘EU'rope projects within and beyond its borders. While this limit has at times been perpetrated in scholarly debates on the topic, this article presents a review of recent research which, from different disciplinary backgrounds, converges in proposing more decentered and ‘unbounded’ perspectives for inquiring into EU's approach towards its neighbouring countries. EU external policies are a peculiar assemblage of inclusion and exclusion, cooperation and securitization, approximation and distantiation which cannot be properly captured by metaphors such as that of the “wider Europe” or “fortress Europe”. We discuss recent perspectives about European normative power, external governance and Europeanization, policy transfer and diffusion which show how regionalization and bordering processes are neither contradictory nor divergent but proceed side‐by‐side in an attempt to construct a selective, fragmented and mobile EU external frontier. These perspectives are crucial for renovating our understanding of EU's external relations and the Neighbourhood Policy both theoretically and methodologically, particularly in light of the EU's decreasing leverage and ongoing transformations in ‘EU'rope and its neighbourhood.

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“…Indeed, geopolitical language is much in evidence in written documents, even official ones, to say nothing of think-tanks. Terms like realpolitik or buffer zone are no longer taboo; they are evoked at all levels of European politics (Bialasiewicz et al 2009). On the formal and careful end of the scale, a 2009 report by the European Council argued that "While notions such as spheres of privileged influence are alien to the EU, the role of important regional actors in mediating, facilitating or serving as a guarantor for solutions to regional crises cannot be underestimated" (Council of the European Union 2009).…”

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“…Yet the EU imbricates the national inside the transnational, and vice versa, thereby illustrating bureaucratic processes on scales and in contexts other than the nation-state. Moreover, in the last few years, European politicians and the popular media have become more willing to use the geopolitical language that they had avoided for most of the post-Cold War period (Bialasiewicz et al 2009). By examining how EU policy professionals do so, I illuminate the analytical frameworks that underpin and enframe the Union's policymaking.…”

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Policy and Geopolitics: Bounding Europe in EUrope

Kuus

2011

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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This article analyzes geopolitics as a bureaucratic practice conducted by career policy professionals. Empirically, I investigate how the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) continuously produces and transforms the geopolitical category of "Europe" inside the European Union's (EU) policymaking bureaucracy-or EUrope as it is called colloquially. Drawing in part from forty-six interviews with thirty-five policy professionals, the article elucidates how these professionals use the concept of Europe in their daily work on ENP-not how they understand the concept intellectually but how they actually deploy it in policy discussions. Theoretically, I clarify how practical geopolitics operates through banal assumptions that are activated occasionally but present in an unremarkable way every day, how geopolitical categories are problematized inside policymaking bureaucracies, and how grand geopolitical visions are given specific technical content within everyday policy processes. The EU is an important example of this process because of its sheer global weight as well as the novel transnational character of its institutions. The argument advances two related strands of work in human geography: one on the role of public policy in producing social realities and the other on the capacity of specific individuals to shape geopolitical discourses.Este artículo analiza la geopolítica como una práctica burocrática manejada por profesionales de carrera política. Empíricamente, investigué la manera como la Política Europea de Vecindad (ENP, por sigla en inglés) continuamente produce y transforma la categoría geopolítica de "Europa" dentro de la burocracia encargada de hacer política en la Unión Europea (UE)-o EUropa, como coloquialmente se le llama. Basándonos en parte de cuarenta y seis entrevistas con treinta y cinco políticos profesionales, en el artículo aclaramos el modo como estos profesionales utilizan el concepto de Europa en su trabajo cotidiano en la ENP-no como entienden ellos intelectualmente el concepto sino como lo ponen en juego en sus discusiones políticas. Teóricamente, hago claridad sobre la manera como opera la geopolítica práctica por medio de supuestos banales que se activan ocasionalmente pero que están presentes de modo poco notable cada día, cómo las categorías geopolíticas se problematizan dentro de las burocracias hacedoras de políticas y cómo a las grandes visiones geopolíticas se les da específico contenido técnico dentro de los procesos políticos cotidianos. La UE es un importante ejemplo de este proceso debido a su claro peso global lo mismo que al novedoso carácter transnacional de sus instituciones. El argumento promueve dos tipos relacionados de trabajo en geografía humana: uno sobre el papel de la política pública en la producción de realidades sociales y el otro sobre la capacidad que tienen individuos específicos para diseñar los discursos geopolíticos. Palabras clave: geopolítica crítica, Europa, Unión Europea, estadistas intelectuales, política.

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Interventions in the new political geographies of the European ‘neighborhood’

Cited by 71 publications

References 15 publications

The European Union and Practices of Governing Space and Population in Contested States: Insights from EUPOL COPPS in Palestine

The European Union and Practices of Governing Space and Population in Contested States: Insights from EUPOL COPPS in Palestine

Beyond Fortress Europe. Unbounding European Normative Power and the Neighbourhood Policy

Policy and Geopolitics: Bounding Europe in EUrope

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