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The European Union's stalled expansion, the Euro deficit and
emerging crises of economic and political sovereignty in Greece,
Italy and Spain have significantly altered the image of the EU as a
model of progressive civilization. However, despite recent events
the EU maintains its international image as the paragon of European
politics and global governance. This book unites leading scholars
on Europe and Empire to revisit the view of the European Union as
an 'imperial' power. It offers a re-appraisal of the EU as empire
in response to geopolitical and economic developments since 2007
and asks if the policies, practices, and priorities of the Union
exhibit characteristics of a modern empire. This text will be of
key interest to students and scholars of the EU, European studies,
history, sociology, international relations, and economics.
The European Union's stalled expansion, the Euro deficit and
emerging crises of economic and political sovereignty in Greece,
Italy and Spain have significantly altered the image of the EU as a
model of progressive civilization. However, despite recent events
the EU maintains its international image as the paragon of European
politics and global governance. This book unites leading scholars
on Europe and Empire to revisit the view of the European Union as
an 'imperial' power. It offers a re-appraisal of the EU as empire
in response to geopolitical and economic developments since 2007
and asks if the policies, practices, and priorities of the Union
exhibit characteristics of a modern empire. This text will be of
key interest to students and scholars of the EU, European studies,
history, sociology, international relations, and economics.
The enlargement of European-based organisations has reached a near
terminal point. The Council of Europe and the Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) currently cover virtually
all states of Europe (Belarus still remains excluded from the first
of these). The EU and NATO have experienced extensive processes of
enlargement and the scope for continuing enlargement is now limited
largely to the Balkans and the European neutrals. Given this state
of affairs it is now pertinent to think of a Europe characterised
not by enlargement but by post-enlargement. In International
Relations (IR) conceptual thinking on Europe (as opposed just to
the EU) has been undertaken using a range of scholarly tools. In
this volume, attention to Europe proceeds from English School (ES)
thinking, and specifically its three-fold distinction between
international system, international society and world society. It
is the international society element (the
development/institutionalisation of shared interests and identities
buttressed by rules and norms) which signifies in their most
concrete form different patterns of interaction or integration
between states. This book will be of interest to international
relations scholars, as well as practitioners within the European
Union and other intergovernmental institutions. It was published as
a special issue of the Journal of European Integration.
Turkish membership to the European Union generates significant
debate among politicians, policy-makers, and academicians. At the
same time, the issue of Turkish membership carries challenges for
European Union policy-making as well as for theories of
integration. This volume comes at a timely interval when there is a
need to better understand the Turkish accession to the European
Union. The purpose of this volume is twofold. First, it seeks to
examine the political background of the European Union-Turkey
enlargement negotiation process, and second, it aims at assessing
the current strengths and weaknesses of the Turkish candidature. By
analyzing the obstacles in front of Turkish negotiations, it aims
to uncover the road in front of Turkey's European Union membership.
The volume focuses on political, social, and economic issues
relevant to the accession process and assesses the transformation
at these different levels in line with the negotiations.
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