Writings on the EU (European Union) are largely celebratory hagiographies reflecting long-discredited narratives of progress, lacking global perspective and critical incisiveness, while critical works either remain too narrowly focused or ignore EU enlargement altogether. This edited volume brings together a diverse array of critical perspectives in the analysis of EU enlargement. The novelty of these studies is in their multifaceted and nuanced explanations of EU enlargement as a particular form of empire building. Each author demonstrates this process by examining the cultural, political, and economic practices, both within and beyond Europe, that constitute this form of empire.
Contents: Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro: The European Union as Empire - Olivier Thomas Kramsch: Postcolonial Shadow Plays in the Dutch-German Borderlands - Hannes Hofbauer: EU Enlargement: Political Recognition of an Economic Process - Samir Amin: The Geopolitics of the New Collective Imperialism of the Triad: The Middle East, the EU, and US Imperialism - Andre Gunder Frank: The Soviet Union and Me - Jeff Sommers: The Entropy of Order: The Contested Terrain of EU Enlargement - József Böröcz: East European Entrants to the EU: Diffidently Yours - Attila Melegh: Perspectives on the East-West Slope in the Process of EU Accession - Ulrich Best: Between Cross-Border Cooperation and Neocolonialism: EU Enlargement and Polish-German Relations - Melinda Kovács: The Selfless Self: Constructions of the EU in Its Yearly Reports, 1998-2002 - Merje Kuus: The Double Enlargement and the Remapping of the East - Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro: «A Family of Democratic European Countries»: Coercion, Plunder, and Accumulation in the Development and Expansion of the EU.
The Editor: Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. He received a Ph.D. in geography from Rutgers University in New Jersey. He has authored professional journal articles and book chapters on a wide range of subjects, including European Union and NATO enlargement, scientific discourse and power relations, gender relations and soil management, and soil degradation.
Über den Autor
The Editor: Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. He received a Ph.D. in geography from Rutgers University in New Jersey. He has authored professional journal articles and book chapters on a wide range of subjects, including European Union and NATO enlargement, scientific discourse and power relations, gender relations and soil management, and soil degradation.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro: The European Union as Empire - Olivier Thomas Kramsch: Postcolonial Shadow Plays in the Dutch-German Borderlands - Hannes Hofbauer: EU Enlargement: Political Recognition of an Economic Process - Samir Amin: The Geopolitics of the New Collective Imperialism of the Triad: The Middle East, the EU, and US Imperialism - Andre Gunder Frank: The Soviet Union and Me - Jeff Sommers: The Entropy of Order: The Contested Terrain of EU Enlargement - József Böröcz: East European Entrants to the EU: Diffidently Yours - Attila Melegh: Perspectives on the East-West Slope in the Process of EU Accession - Ulrich Best: Between Cross-Border Cooperation and Neocolonialism: EU Enlargement and Polish-German Relations - Melinda Kovács: The Selfless Self: Constructions of the EU in Its Yearly Reports, 1998-2002 - Merje Kuus: The Double Enlargement and the Remapping of the East - Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro: «A Family of Democratic European Countries»: Coercion, Plunder, and Accumulation in the Development and Expansion of the EU.
Klappentext
Writings on the EU (European Union) are largely celebratory hagiographies reflecting long-discredited narratives of progress, lacking global perspective and critical incisiveness, while critical works either remain too narrowly focused or ignore EU enlargement altogether. This edited volume brings together a diverse array of critical perspectives in the analysis of EU enlargement. The novelty of these studies is in their multifaceted and nuanced explanations of EU enlargement as a particular form of empire building. Each author demonstrates this process by examining the cultural, political, and economic practices, both within and beyond Europe, that constitute this form of empire.