Bialasiewicz - Europe in the World

EUROPE IN THE WORLD

Series Editors:
Klaus Dodds, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Alan Ingram, University College London, UK
Merje Kuus, University of British Columbia, Canada

Over the last two decades, critical geopolitics has become a prominent field in human geography. it has developed to encompass topics associated with popular culture, everyday life, architecture and urban form as well as the more familiar issues of security, inter-national relations and global power projection. Critical geopolitics takes inspiration from studies of governmentality and biopolitics, gender and sexuality, political economy and development, postcolonialism and the study of emotion and affect. Methodologically, it continues to employ discourse analysis and is engaging with ethnography and participatory research methods. This rich field continues to develop new ways of analysing geopolitics.

This series provides an opportunity for early career researchers as well as established scholars to publish theoretically informed monographs and edited volumes that engage with critical geopolitics and related areas such as international relations theory and security studies. With an emphasis on accessible writing, the books in the series will appeal to wider audiences including journalists, policy communities and civil society organizations.

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EU Geopolitics and the Making of European Space

Edited by
LUIZA BIALASIEWICZ
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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Luiza Bialasiewicz 2011

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Europe in the world : EU geopolitics and the making

of European space. -- (Critical geopolitics)

1. European union. 2. Geopolitics--Case studies.

3. Europe--Foreign relations--1989- 4. Europe-

Boundaries.

I. Series II. Bialasiewicz, Luiza.

327.4-dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Europe in the world : EU geopolitics and the making of European space / [compiled] by
Luiza Bialasiewicz.

p. cm.

includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7546-7984-4 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-0-7546-9953-8

(ebook) 1. European union countries--Foreign relations. 2. Geopolitics--European union
countries. 3. European union countries--Boundaries. I. Bialasiewicz, Luiza.

JZ1570.A5E9714 2011

341.242'2--dc22

2011015726

ISBN 9780754679844 (hbk)
ISBN 9780754699538 (ebk)
ISBN 9781409490265 (ebk-ePUB)

Printed and bound in Great Britain by the MPG Books Group, UK.

Luiza Bialasiewicz

Sami Moisio

Alun Jones

Veit Bachmann

Alex Jeffrey

Richard C. Powell

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen

Adam Levy

Nick Vaughan-Williams

Shinya Kitagawa

Veit Bachmann is Lecturer at the Institute of Human Geography at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Director of the EuroGaps research group that looks at external perceptions of the EU in sub-Saharan Africa and the Black Sea Region. Veit is a political geographer with research interests in (critical) geopolitics, development studies, European studies and global North-South relations, with a focus on aspects of Europes role in the world. Veit was trained at the University of Plymouth, Texas A&M University and the University of Trier.

Luiza Bialasiewicz is Associate Professor in the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her main interests lie with the historical and political geographies of European integration, while her most recent research focuses on the geopolitics of EU border management. She is the author (together with C. Minca) of Spazio e Politica: Riflessioni di geografia critica (CEDAM) and is currently completing a research monograph on the historical geographies of Europe and Europeans in the world entitled Traces of Europe.

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen is Project Researcher at the Danish Institute of International Studies and a former policy advisor to the Danish Refugee Council. His research focuses on international refugee law, EU asylum and immigration policy and sovereignty, with a particular focus on the externalization and privatization of migration control, and the relationship between international law, EU and Danish migration policy. He is the author of Access to Asylum: International Refugee Law and the Globalization of Migration Control (Cambridge University Press) and the editor (together with Rebecca Adler-Nissen) of Sovereignty Games: Instrumentalising State Sovereignty in Europe and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan).

Alex Jeffrey is Lecturer in Political Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University, UK. His research has focused on the governance of post-conflict environments, particularly the former Yugoslavia, and the role of nongovernmental organizations in fostering democracy. He has published in journals across geography, political science and development studies, including Political Geography, Society and Space, Review of International Political Economy and Development and Change. He recently collaborated with Joe Painter on the book Political Geography and Introduction to Space and Power (Sage) and is currently working on the book manuscript The Improvised State: Sovereignty, Performance and Agency in Dayton Bosnia as part of the Royal Geographical Society Book Series (Wiley-Blackwell).

Alun Jones is Professor of Geography at University College Dublin, Ireland. His research interests are in political geography, European integration and Mediterranean policy. He has written widely on EU international activities and has recently co-authored a research monograph on The Spatialities of Europeanization (Routledge Cavendish).

Shinya Kitagawa is Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Urban Research Plaza at Osaka City University, Japan. His interests lie in political geography and geopolitics, in Italy in particular. He was a visiting doctoral researcher at the Universit degli Studi di Napoli LOrientale from 2005 to 2006 and has published numerous articles in Japanese on regionalism, immigration control through detention centres, and autonomous social movements in Italy. He has recently translated into Japanese Franco Berardis 1987 book