Europe in the world. EU geopolitics and the making of European space

This edited volume provides an innovative contribution to the debate on contemporary European geopolitics by tracing some of the new political geographies and geographical imaginations emergent within - and made possible by - the EU's actions in the international arena.

Drawing on case studies that range from the Arctic to East Africa, the nine empirical chapters provide a critical geopolitical reading of the ways in which particular places, countries, and regions are brought into the EU's orbit and the ways in which they are made to work for 'EU'rope. The analyses look at how the spaces of 'EU'ropean power and actorness are narrated and created, but also at how 'EU'rope's discursive (and material) strategies of incorporation are differently appropriated by local and regional elites, from the southern shores of the Mediterranean to Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

The question of EU border management is a particularly important concern of several contributions, highlighting some of the ways in which the Union's border-work is actively (re)making the European space.

Contents:

Part I. MAKING THE SPACES OF EU ACTION
1. Geographies of Europeanization: The EU's Spatial Planning as a Politics of Scale - Sami Moisio
2. Making Regions for EU Action: The EU and the Mediterranean - Alun Jones
3. European Spaces of Development: Aid, Regulation and Regional Integration in East Africa - Veit Bachmann
4. The Masks of Europe in Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina - Alex Jeffrey
5. From the Northern Dimension to Arctic Strategies? The European Union's Envisioning of the High Latitudes - Richard C. Powell

Part II. THE EU AS (B)ORDERING ACTOR
6. Outsourcing Asylum: The Advent of Protection Lite - Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
7. The European Union Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) and the Remote Control Border: Managing Moldova - Adam Levy
8. Off-Shore Biopolitical Border Security: The EU's Global Response to Migration, Piracy and 'Risky' Subjects - Nick Vaughan-Williams
9. Geographies of Migration Across and Beyond Europe: The Camp and the Road of Movements - Shinya Kitagawa