The EU's eastern neighbourhood : migration, borders and regional stability / / edited by Ilkka Liikanen, James W. Scott and Tiina Sotkasiira

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910583588003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-317-93550-0; 1-315-85803-7; 1-317-93551-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Collana: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
• Altri autori (Persone): LiikanenIlkka; ScottJames Wesley; SotkasiiraTiina
• Disciplina: 947.000905
• Soggetti: European Union countries Foreign relations Former Soviet republics; Former Soviet republics Foreign relations European Union countries; Former Soviet republics Emigration and immigration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Abbreviations; The end of Wider Europe? The EU, changing borders and spatial imaginaries of post-Soviet space; Introduction: concepts of Wider Europe and Neighbourhood; Of old and new geopolitical conundrums; The structure of the book; Part One: renegotiating borders in the post-Soviet space; Part Two: border management and cross-border cooperation; Part Three: migration policies; Part Four: migration and the everyday; Conclusions: the future of Wider Europe; Acknowledgements; Note; PART ONE: Renegotiating borders in the post-Soviet space1. Building regional stability through cross-border cooperation: changing spatial imaginaries and sovereignty concepts of EU neighbourhood policies; Shifting sovereignty concepts of making Europe and the European Neighbourhood; INTERREG: CBC as a tool of apolitical cohesion policies of the European Community; INTERREG III: CBC as a tool of enlargement - and transition; European Neighbourhood policy: CBC as a frame of ; pooled sovereignty and soft power; Common foreign and security policy: post-sovereign responses to a changing European Neighbourhood?Conclusions: CBC and sovereignty-challenging spatial imaginary in the European Neighbourhood; 2. Ukraine: history confronts geography; Defining national space; Dividing national space; Challenging borders; Conclusions; Notes; 3. Borders and nation-building in post-Soviet space: a glance from the Republic of Moldova; Soviet nationality policies and the shaping of Moldova's borders; Post-independence historical-political narratives of Moldova's borders; Borders and neighbours; Conclusion; Notes; 4. Reconceptualisations of borders in post-Soviet Ukraine: between EU regulations, the Soviet legacy and internal political strife 65Border issues in Ukraine: examples from political discourse; The framing of border issues in academic discourse; The European Union: a focus on border management; Conclusions; Notes; PART TWO: Border management and cross-border cooperation; 5. Eastern Neighbourhood as a political divide: EU policies of regional cooperation and 'selective visibility' in the case of Ukraine; Regional cooperation and the emerging EU geopolitics of neighbourhood: a possibilistic perspectivePerspectives on the EU as a political actor: narratives of neighbourhood and policy divides; Conclusions; Notes; 6. Bordering in post-Soviet Central Asia: two tales from Tajikistan; Borders of Tajikistan: Soviet and post-Soviet developments; Tursunzoda: a tale of TALCO and the Uzbek border in Central Tajikistan; Borders in the Ferghana Valley; Border delimitation and demarcation in the Ferghana Valley; Conclusion; Notes; 7. Of barriers, breaches and bridges: cross-border ecotourism and the prospect of horizontal governance acting as a bridge in Belarus-EU Neighbourhood relations