Reflections on EU territoriality and the ‘bordering’ of Europe

Scott, James W.; Houtum, H.J. van

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2009.04.002

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“…Here, state borders continue to be key arbiters for the maintenance of national identity. Indeed, this example demonstrates the fact that borders are as much economic, social and cultural institutions as they are political institutions (Scott and van Houtum, 2009). The post-2001 political and discursive emphasis on re-bordering rather than debordering reinforces the role of borders as arbiters between national communities (McCall, 2012).…”

Section: Limits Of Eu Cross-border Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 94%

European Union Cross-Border Cooperation and Conflict Amelioration

McCall¹

2013

Space and Polity

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The relevance of European Union (EU) cross-border cooperation for European border conflict amelioration may be questioned in the contemporary global climate of threat and insecurity posed by forces of 'dark globalisation'. In any case, empirical evidence exposes the limitations of cross-border cooperation in advancing conflict amelioration in some border regions. Nevertheless, in an enlarged EU which encompasses Central and East European member states and reaches out to neighbouring states through cross-border cooperation initiatives, the number of real and potential border conflicts with which it is concerned has risen exponentially. Fortunately, there are cases of EU 'borderscapes' that have adopted a cross-border 'peace-building from below' approach leading to border conflict amelioration. Unfortunately, countervailing pressures on EU cross-border cooperation from border security regimes (principally Schengen), the Eurozone crisis, EU budgetary constraints, the conceptualisation of 'Europe as Empire', and the possible reconfiguration of the EU itself compromises this approach. Therefore, the path of European integration may well shift from one of inter-state peace-building and regional crossborder cooperation after the Second World War, to border conflict and coercion in constituting and reconstituting state borders after the reconfiguration of the EU.Their memory of old freedoms lingers and won't let them rest. In these cases, your only options are to reduce the place to rubble or go and live there yourself (Machiavelli, 2011, p. 20).

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Section: Limits Of Eu Cross-border Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 94%

European Union Cross-Border Cooperation and Conflict Amelioration

McCall¹

2013

Space and Polity

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“…In other words, regions can be defined as situated contexts o f individual (formal and informal) actions, choices, traditions, practices, and discourses (cf Giddens, 1986Giddens, [1984; Ramutsindela, 2011;Werlen, 1997). A 'border' adds further social sets o f practices to the conceptualisation o f a region, often still facing national particularism and territorial anxieties (Scott and van Houtum, 2009). Such spaces are, however, "not 'givens' but are created-for human agency designates human beings as makers o f their milieu, albeit within unequal power relations" (Dyck and Kearns, 2006, page 88;see also O 'Dowd, 2010).…”

Section: Relational Policy Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contested ‘Relational Policy Spaces’ in Two European Border Regions

Dörry

Walther

2015

Environ Plan A

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Cross-border cooperation to promote economic development and political integration has been among the EU's key themes since the 1990s, and contemporary policy networks are considered useful organisational solutions. Focusing on transport policies in the border regions of Basel and Luxembourg, we analyse the persistency of national preferences among policy actors, mapping their perceived 'policy spaces of action' and conceptualising these policy spaces as relational. We discuss that the networks' various actors on either side of the border appear to perceive the actual 'policy spaces' very differently. Therefore, and due to the networks' terminability, these policy spaces are highly contested and frequently negotiated between the actors. Based on a combination of in-depth interviews, sketch maps, and social network analysis, we show that large spatiocultural differences still prevail among network actors, potentially impacting on the decisions taken in cross-border policy networks.

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“…This paper aims to examine all these phenomena according to the theoretical framework of border studies, a field gaining promi-nence around the last turn of the century which highlights the social construction, nature, and dynamism of the border through the complex evaluation thereof (including O'Dowd, L. 2002;van Houtum, H. and van Naerssen, T. 2002;Kolossov, V. 2005;Newman, D. 2006aNewman, D. ,b, 2011Scott, J.W. and van Houtum, H. 2009;Paasi, A.…”

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Re-bordering of the Hungarian South: Geopolitics of the Hungarian border fence

Pap

Reményi

2017

HunGeoBull

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The Hungarian borders have been at the centre of political and social discourse since the 20 th century. Subject to whichever government dominated at a given time, border policies strengthened and disappeared frequently. During the summer and autumn of 2015, a fence was constructed in effort to discourage migration at the southern borders of Hungary. Building on collective social memory which links Hungary's southern borders with divisionary actions, the government organised a campaign effective in convincing voters that more aggressive border control measures should be enacted. Opposition parties had no effective tools to counter the government's actions; thus, popular support for the government increased significantly. This paper examines how the attention and resources concentrated on the southern borders do not directly correspond to purported objectives. In fact, this paper argues that the issues related to securing the southern border of Hungary are merely used as political resources to achieve domestic political-and power-related goals. Taking into account specific international trends of border research, this work aims to illustrate how the border itself (more concisely, the policy of strengthening the southern border) became a political resource, through the remarkably efficient communications campaign of the ruling Hungarian government party.

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Reflections on EU territoriality and the ‘bordering’ of Europe

Cited by 57 publications

References 6 publications

European Union Cross-Border Cooperation and Conflict Amelioration

European Union Cross-Border Cooperation and Conflict Amelioration

Contested ‘Relational Policy Spaces’ in Two European Border Regions

Re-bordering of the Hungarian South: Geopolitics of the Hungarian border fence

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