Revisiting the European Union as Empire
The European Unions 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 reappraisal 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.
Hartmut Behr is professor of international politics at Newcastle University, UK.
Yannis A. Stivachtis is associate professor of political science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA.
Critical European Studies
Edited by Hartmut Behr, University of Newcastle, UK and Yannis A. Stivachtis, Virginia Tech, USA
1 Mapping European Empire
Tabulae Imperii Europaei
Russell Foster
2 Revisiting the European Union as Empire
Edited by Hartmut Behr and Yannis A. Stivachtis
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Hartmut Behr is Professor of International Politics at Newcastle University (UK). His work includes studies in political theory, international relations theory and sociology of knowledge of the discipline, difference and otherness, and critical European studies. His most recent books include: A History of International Political Theory: Ontologies of the International (2010): Hans J. Morgenthau: The Concept of the Political (2012, together with Felix Roesch); and Politics of Difference (2014). He is currently working on a new monograph called Conditions of Critique: On humane and responsible politics . He is Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme-funded research network on Critical Theory Meets Classical Realism.
Yannis A. Stivachtis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. His most recent publications include: Human and State (In)Security in a Globalized World (2011); Europe after Enlargement (2014, with Mark Webber); The European Union and Peace-building (2013, with Max Stephenson and Laura Zanotti); EUrope and the World (2012); and The Road to EU Membership: The Economic Transformation of Turkey (2011, with Selen Sarisoy Guerin). He is currently working on a monograph entitled European Union and Global Order . He serves as Chair of the English School section of the International Studies Association (ISA); Chair of the Social Sciences Research Division and Head of the Politics & International Affairs Research Unit of ATINER (Athens Institute of Education and Research); and Senior Advisor of RIEAS (Research Institute for European & American Studies).
Jzsef Brcz is Professor of Sociology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He was founding director (19952007) of the Institute for Hungarian Studies at Rutgers. He is author of the award-winning book The European Union and Global Social Change: A Critical Geopolitical Economic Analysis (Routledge 2009), and co-editor of Empires New Clothes: Unveiling EU-Enlargement (Central Europe Review e-book 2000). His areas of research interest include the historical sociology of supra-state formation, (post-)state-socialisms and the new economic and moral geopolitics of the global power shift.
Nora Fisher Onar , a Transatlantic Academy Fellow of the German Marshall Fund in Washington, DC, is a research associate of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford. She has published numerous articles and book chapters in academic and policy fora. She received her doctorate in international relations from the University of Oxford and holds masters and undergraduate degrees from Johns Hopkins SAIS and Georgetown University, respectively. Her monograph, Acts of State: Politics, Performance, and the Eastern Questions(s) proposes a novel theoretical prism onto the relationship between history, memory and politics via the drama of Turkey and its regions past and present quandaries.
Russell Foster read History at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and both International Relations and Human Geography at Newcastle University. His PhD, awarded in 2013, investigates the EU as symbolic empire. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and in 2013 was ESRC Visting Scholar at Virginia Tech. Recent publications include Tabulae Imperii Europeai: Mapping European Empire (2015); The Crisis of the Twenty-First Century: Empire in the Age of Austerity (with Matthew Johnson, 2014); and Tabula Imperii Europae: A Cartographic Approach to the Current Debate on the European Union as Empire, Geopolitics 18(2), 2013. He is currently Marie-Curie Fellow in the Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam, working on an EU-funded project to redesign the Unions symbols.
Aylin Gney is Professor of International Relations at Yasar University (Izmir, Turkey) and holds the Jean Monnet Chair for International Relations and European Studies granted by the European Commission. She currently serves as the Head of the Department of International Relations and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. She has published articles in journals such as Turkish Studies, Armed Forces and Society, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, South European Society and Politics , and Middle Eastern Studies as well as several book chapters. Her main areas of interest are European Integration, EU Enlargement, civilmilitary relations in Turkey, the Cyprus issue and TurkishAmerican Relations.
