Bulletin n. 1/2009
July 2009
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Luiza Bialasiewicz, Carl Dahlman, Gian Matteo Apuzzo, Felix Ciută, Alun Jones, Chris Rumford, Ruth Wodak, James Anderson, Alan Ingram
    Interventions in the new political geographies of the European ‘neighborhood’
    in Political Geography , Volume 28, Issue 2 ,  2009 ,  79-89
    The past year has seen media attention on both sides of the Atlantic focussed on the question of the EU's status as an international actor and, especially, its increasingly important role in governing its immediate ‘Neighbourhood’. Indeed, European media and politicians have become visibly less reticent to speak openly of a ‘European geopolitics’ – or certainly of the need for a geopolitical vision for (EU)rope. This semantic shift has occurred even in the most traditionally Eurosceptic national contexts such as the UK where it is becoming commonplace to speak of ‘European power’ – and even ‘European Empire’ (see, for e.g. the comments of Foreign Secretary David Miliband in Bruges in November 2007). Certainly, European foreign policy and the EU's external role have always been conceived in very different ways by the various member states, strongly conditioned by national political (and geopolitical) cultures; these different national preoccupations and geopolitical visions (for Europe) are still present, evident for instance in the privileged place afforded to certain ‘Neighbourhoods’ rather than others – France and Italy see the Mediterranean as Europe's key space of intervention, while Germany has traditionally looked East and South East (Rupnik, 2007).
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