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Soft or Hard Borders?

Author : Joan DeBardeleben
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351899055

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Soft or Hard Borders? by Joan DeBardeleben Pdf

Bringing together leading European and North American experts, this timely volume answers questions about the implications and management of the new external borders of the European Union following another phase of enlargement. Implications of the EU's new external border, especially its eastern border with Russia and Ukraine, will be a key issue for the new member countries, for the EU, and for the new neighbouring regions. The contributors address this emerging question from two perspectives. They examine whether an expanded Europe will create a new dividing line in Europe between 'insiders' and 'outsiders', and also consider the concrete problems of border management and how the issues will be handled. The book will be of particular value to those concerned with European politics and the expansion of Europe, and to those with an interest in political sociology.

Soft Or Hard Borders?

Author : Joan DeBardeleben
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351899062

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Soft Or Hard Borders? by Joan DeBardeleben Pdf

Bringing together leading European and North American experts, this timely volume answers questions about the implications and management of the new external borders of the European Union following another phase of enlargement. Implications of the EU's new external border, especially its eastern border with Russia and Ukraine, will be a key issue for the new member countries, for the EU, and for the new neighbouring regions. The contributors address this emerging question from two perspectives. They examine whether an expanded Europe will create a new dividing line in Europe between 'insiders' and 'outsiders', and also consider the concrete problems of border management and how the issues will be handled. The book will be of particular value to those concerned with European politics and the expansion of Europe, and to those with an interest in political sociology.

Soft Borders

Author : J. Mostov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230612440

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While sovereignty is increasingly contested within academic circles, most recent military conflicts have been over issues of sovereignty in some form. Focusing on Yugoslavia in the 1990s, this book explores the issues surrounding 'sovereignty' and calls for a radical rethinking of the notion and the institutions and practices that it grounds.

Bordering the Baltic

Author : Madeleine Hurd
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643107787

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Bordering the Baltic by Madeleine Hurd Pdf

In this book, scholars from different disciplines use case studies drawn from Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark to analyze the last century's construction of, engagement with, and challenges to both "hard" and "soft" Scandinavian boundaries. The book provide historical examples of how national borders have been contested by Scandinavian states caught between powerful Continental neighbors; these attempts to firm up boundaries can be contrasted to the denationalization of borders caused both by the globalization of communications and markets and by political efforts to submerge national boundaries in a common Baltic identity. A second set of studies focuses on boundaries defining Scandinavian minorities. Here, the book analyzes the spaces, rituals, bodies, gender roles, and collective-identity discourses implicit in majority-minority boundaries - and their transgression. Throughout, Scandinavian bordering processes are studied in terms of the groups that launch them, the methods by which they are propagated, and, finally, the meanings supposedly, and actually, invested in them. (Series: Nordische Geschichte - Vol. 10)

Imagined, Negotiated, Remembered

Author : Kimmo Katajala,Maria Lähteenmäki
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643902573

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Imagined, Negotiated, Remembered by Kimmo Katajala,Maria Lähteenmäki Pdf

This collection of writings explores European borders from the 15th century to the present. The territorial scope ranges from the Arctic Ocean and Scandinavia to Central Europe. In these papers, borders are understood not only as separating lines in the terrain, but also as socially constructed divisions in people's choices, speeches, actions, and memories. Borders are not only drawn: they are imagined, negotiated, and remembered. (Series: Studies on Middle and Eastern Europe / Mittel- und Ostmitteleuropastudien - Vol. 11)

Slovenia

Author : Mojmir Mrak,Matija Rojec,Carlos Silva-Jauregui
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821357182

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Slovenia by Mojmir Mrak,Matija Rojec,Carlos Silva-Jauregui Pdf

Thirteen years after independence from the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, Slovenia has become one of the most advanced transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe and will become a member of the EU in May 2004. This publication examines the country's recent political and socio-economic history, its transition to a market economy and the challenges that lie ahead. It includes contributions from Slovenia's president, a former vice prime minister, the current and previous ministers of finance, the minister of European Affairs, the current and former governors of the Bank of Slovenia, as well as from leading development scholars in Slovenia and abroad.

EU-Russian Border Security

Author : S. V. Golunov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415673075

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EU-Russian Border Security by S. V. Golunov Pdf

The land border between Russia and the European Union is one of the longest land borders in the world, with very considerable trade flowing across the border in both directions. This book examines the nature of the EU-Russia border, and the issues connected with its management. It describes the territories and the societies on each side of the border, discusses the challenges which confront border management, including migration and criminal activities, and explores how people on both sides perceive each other and perceive threats and security issues. It concludes by assessing achievements to date in managing the border and by assessing continuing unresolved challenges.

Soft Spaces in Europe

Author : Phil Allmendinger,Graham Haughton,Jörg Knieling,Frank Othengrafen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317666332

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Soft Spaces in Europe by Phil Allmendinger,Graham Haughton,Jörg Knieling,Frank Othengrafen Pdf

The past thirty years have seen a proliferation of new forms of territorial governance that have come to co-exist with, and complement, formal territorial spaces of government. These governance experiments have resulted in the creation of soft spaces, new geographies with blurred boundaries that eschew existing political-territorial boundaries of elected tiers of government. The emergence of new, non-statutory or informal spaces can be found at multiple levels across Europe, in a variety of circumstances, and with diverse aims and rationales. This book moves beyond theory to examine the practice of soft spaces. It employs an empirical approach to better understand the various practices and rationalities of soft spaces and how they manifest themselves in different planning contexts. By looking at the effects of new forms of spatial governance and the role of spatial planning in North-western Europe, this book analyses discursive changes in planning policies in selected metropolitan areas and cross-border regions. The result is an exploration of how these processes influence the emergence of soft spaces, governance arrangements and the role of statutory planning in different contexts. This book provides a deeper understanding of space and place, territorial governance and network governance.

Neighbourhood Policy and the Construction of the European External Borders

Author : Filippo Celata,Raffaella Coletti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319184524

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Neighbourhood Policy and the Construction of the European External Borders by Filippo Celata,Raffaella Coletti Pdf

This book looks both backward and forward with regard to the European Union’s political strategies towards its neighbouring countries. By bringing together the perspectives of critical geopolitics, policy studies and border studies, it presents a comprehensive review of the European Neighbourhood Policy and how it impacts the ongoing construction of the EU’s external frontiers. Is the EU committed to promoting integration in a ‘wider’ European space, or is a “fortress Europe” emerging where the strengthening of internal cohesion is coupled with the militarisation of its external borders? The book aims to problematize this question by showing how the EU’s external policies are based on a mixture of openness and closure, inclusion and exclusion, cooperation and securitisation. The European Neighbourhood Policy is a controversial strategy where regionalization and bordering, homogenisations and differentiations, centrifugal and centripetal forces proceed side-by-side, in an explicit attempt to construct a selective, mobile and fragmented border. A specific focus is devoted to the diversity of geo-strategies the EU is pursuing in its neighbouring countries and regions, macro-regional strategies and cross-border cooperation initiatives as new scales of cooperation, and the role of other global players.

Immigration, the Borderlands, and the Resilient Homeland

Author : Yoku Shaw-Taylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781636713854

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Immigration, the Borderlands, and the Resilient Homeland by Yoku Shaw-Taylor Pdf

This title combines original research, case studies, and synoptic analysis to cover highly charged topics in America today. Each chapter in this edited volume offers conditional responses to three essential questions about the disciplinary status of homeland security: What are the domain’s central problems? What research methods are best able to address those problems? What has research contributed to addressing homeland security’s core problems? The volume is divided into two main sections. Part I: Immigration and Management covers topics such as: Immigration enforcement Illegal crossing Border security Gaps in securing the borderland Part II: The Resilient Homeland addresses issues such as Lessons learned from the pandemic Disaster recovery and preparedness Public health Cybersecurity This publication bridges knowledge from various topics related to homeland security into one volume.

Postcolonial Realms of Memory

Author : Etienne Achille,Charles Forsdick,Lydie Moudileno
Publisher : Contemporary French and Franco
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789620665

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Postcolonial Realms of Memory by Etienne Achille,Charles Forsdick,Lydie Moudileno Pdf

Addressing the remarkable absence of colonial legacy from Pierre Nora's Les Lieux de mémoire, the present volume fosters a new reading of the French past by discerning and exploring an initial repertoire of realms that bridges the gap between traditionally instituted French memory and traces of the colonial on the Republic's soil, including its Outremer.

Subverting Borders

Author : Bettina Bruns,Judith Miggelbrink
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783531932736

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Subverting Borders by Bettina Bruns,Judith Miggelbrink Pdf

Small-scale trade and smuggling are part of everyday life at many borders. These trading activities often compensate for economic shortage that many households are suffering from in consequence of e.g. political transformation processes. Despite of the diversity of transborder small-scale trade and smuggling and their wide dispersion, not only in Europe, their reception within social sciences is relatively low. The contributions shed therefore light on research in geography and neighboured disciplines. On the basis of empirical research findings from borders all over the world, the authors thrive to analyse mechanisms and conditions of the informal activities and to detect parallels and differences of informal economic structures from different perspectives. This book is valuable reading for researchers in geography, sociology, ethnography, and in political science.

What is Europe?

Author : Anna Triandafyllidou,Ruby Gropas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000778151

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What is Europe? by Anna Triandafyllidou,Ruby Gropas Pdf

This authoritative yet accessible introduction to understanding Europe today moves beyond accounts of European integration to provide a wide-ranging and nuanced study of contemporary Europe and its historical development. This fully updated edition adds material on recent developments, such as Brexit and the migrant and Eurozone crises. The concept of Europe is instilled with a plethora of social, cultural, economic, and political meanings. Throughout history, and still today, scholars writing on Europe, and politicians involved in national or European politics, often disagree on the geographic limits of this space and the defining elements of Europe. Europe is, therefore, first and foremost a concept that takes different shapes and meanings depending on the realm of life on which it is applied and on the historical period under investigation. At a given point in time, depending on the perspective we adopt and the situation in which we find ourselves, Europe may represent very different things. Thus, we should better talk about ‘Europes’ in plural. What is Europe? explores these evolving conceptions of Europe from antiquity to the present. This book is all the more timely as Europe responds to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Britain’s departure from the European Union, financial slump, refugee emergencies, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This book offers a fully updated introduction to European studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is a crucial companion to any undergraduate or graduate course on Europe and the European Union. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

French-language Road Cinema

Author : Michael Gott
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748698684

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French-language Road Cinema by Michael Gott Pdf

Focusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, French-language Road Cinema contends that nowhere is the impulse to remap the spaces and identities of 'New Europe' more evident than in French-language cinema.

Developing European Internal Security Policy

Author : Christian Kaunert,Sarah Léonard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317978985

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Developing European Internal Security Policy by Christian Kaunert,Sarah Léonard Pdf

The European Union (EU) is making strong inroads into areas of security traditionally reserved to states, especially into internal security, or Justice and Home Affairs. The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ), as it has been renamed in the Amsterdam Treaty, has seen significant policy developments since the late 1990s. In fact, there has been no other example of a policy-making area making its way so quickly and comprehensively to the centre of the treaties and to the top of the EU’s policy-making agenda. After major treaty revisions in Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice, and, finally the Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force on 1 December 2009, as well as an increased political impetus through the European Council Summits in Tampere (1999), the Hague (2004), and Stockholm (2009), the area appears as one of the most promising policy fields for integration in the EU in the foreseeable future. This process has deepened even more significantly after the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the United States, on 11 March 2004 in Madrid, and on 7 July 2005 in London. This book is the first to analyse these hugely topical developments in European internal security at both the treaty and policy levels, as well as its implementation at the national level, from various disciplinary perspectives (political science, law, criminology, etc). This book was published as a special edition of European Security.