Migration, Ethics and Power: Spaces Of Hospitality In International Politics

Bulley, Daniel

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“…Yet, when considering the European Neighborhood Policy, the practice of hospitality becomes more conditional (Bulley 2014, 175). The refugee crisis, as Bulley (2017, 118) argued, reveals that the EU’s hospitality functions rather like an “immune system” which generates and preserves both the space and the ethos of the EU’s “home” community from any possible hazard of instability coming from abroad. The resulting tensions have institutionalized ambiguity in hospitality practices that simultaneously welcome and exclude (Bulley 2017, 118).…”

Section: Supranational Ideals: Burden Sharing Solidarity and Hospitmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Policy Versus Praxis: Has the European Union Failed to Respond to the Refugee Crisis?

Eylemer

Söylemez

2020

World Affairs

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This study analyzes the effects of supranational governance on the refugee crisis in the European Union (EU). The main argument is that the supranational institutions of the EU have often failed to adequately manage the refugee crisis according to its foundational principles of fair burden sharing and solidarity. This failure has gradually discredited the Union’s basic normative principles such as solidarity, hospitality, and respect for human rights. We show that the gaps between certain policies adopted at the Union level and the practices at the national level have widened, and this has led to a familiar defeat of the normative domain by realpolitik, following some central tenets of classical realism. We aim to show that in several areas of EU policy, as well as how individual states have responded to them, national interests and burden shirking, rather than sharing, have unfortunately prevailed.

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Section: Supranational Ideals: Burden Sharing Solidarity and Hospitmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In 2015, this mass flow of irregular migrants peaked at over a million people—nearly 4,000 of whom drowned in the Mediterranean that year (Ellyatt 2020). The EU’s responses to these events, which mostly change state by state, characterized the “refugee crisis” as influencing both states and the Union’s institutions (Bulley 2017, 117).…”

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Policy Versus Praxis: Has the European Union Failed to Respond to the Refugee Crisis?

Eylemer

Söylemez

2020

World Affairs

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“…This is because without the threat of violence, the very act of welcoming the other would not be possible in the first place. In order for this act to be ‘possible’, it must simultaneously be ‘impossible’, in the pure metaphysical sense (see also Bulley, 2017: 12; Vaughan-Williams, 2007: 121).…”

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The ethics of neorealism: Waltz and the time of international life

Lundborg

2018

European Journal of International Relations

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This article addresses the question of what it means to think of a distinctly international ethics by developing a radical reinterpretation of Waltzian neorealism from a Derridean deconstructive perspective. The core argument of the article is that Derridean deconstruction effectively explains why there is an ethics of neorealism in the first place, and why this ethics cannot be easily overcome. Underpinning this argument is a notion in Derrida’s philosophy of survival as an unconditional affirmation of life, which finds an equivalent in Waltz’s theory of international life in the anarchic system. On this basis, I claim that Waltz’s theory is ethical, not despite its focus on the structural conditions of survival, but precisely because of it. Moreover, the article shows how this notion of ethics renders universal ethical ideals, beyond relations of violence, not only impossible, but undesirable. They are undesirable because to actually fulfil them would be to undermine the conditions that make international life possible in the first place. In this way, various attempts to theorize the meaning and implications of international ethics that hold on to the notion of ethical ideals beyond relations of violence become untenable. Instead of aspiring towards such ideals, the article concludes, international ethics should be thought of as an unconditional affirmation of the incalculable future that structures international life and inevitably exposes it to the worst forms of destruction, but also enables the making of responsible decisions.

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“…As I note elsewhere, 9 there is no mention of such a foundation in the Treaty of Paris (1951) or the Treaty of Rome (1957), which established the earliest precursors to the EU (the European…”

Section: Treaty On European Union (Teu)mentioning

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Shame on EU? Europe, RtoP, and the Politics of Refugee Protection

Bulley¹

2017

Ethics int. aff.

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The EU's politics of protecting refugees through deals such as that struck with Turkey in 2016 have been vilified by human rights campaigners. This article asks whether a full engagement with the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) could offer the EU a way out of its current ethical and political malaise. It argues against such a proposition for two reasons. First, the EU already proclaims a long list of values that it asserts both contributed to its founding and continues to guide its actions; the addition of RtoP, which contains no obligations to protect refugees in other territories, would add little. Second, when the logic underlying the EU and RtoP's politics of protection are examined, a similarity emerges which would make such supplementation redundant. Both primarily entail a solidarity with, and a bolstering of, the sovereign capacity of the modern state. All that is offered to refugees, and other suffering populations, is a minimalist humanitarian solidarity through the “outsourcing” of protection. Neither the EU's ethos nor RtoP can therefore provide the firm ethical grounds from which to build protection for the figure most clearly failed by modern states—the refugee.

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Migration, Ethics and Power: Spaces Of Hospitality In International Politics

Cited by 49 publications

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Policy Versus Praxis: Has the European Union Failed to Respond to the Refugee Crisis?

Policy Versus Praxis: Has the European Union Failed to Respond to the Refugee Crisis?

The ethics of neorealism: Waltz and the time of international life

Shame on EU? Europe, RtoP, and the Politics of Refugee Protection

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