Revisiting the European Union as Empire

Hartmut Behr, Yannis Stivachtis, Yannis A. Stivachtis

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781138818194
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317595106
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Comparative Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The European Union's stalled expansion, the Euro deficit and emerging crises of economic and political sovereignty in Greece, Italy and Spain have significantly altered the image of the EU as a model of progressive civilization. However, despite recent events the EU maintains its international image as the paragon of European politics and global governance.

This book unites leading scholars on Europe and Empire to revisit the view of the European Union as an 'imperial' power. It offers a re-appraisal of the EU as empire in response to geopolitical and economic developments since 2007 and asks if the policies, practices, and priorities of the Union exhibit characteristics of a modern empire.

This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of the EU, European studies, history, sociology, international relations, and economics.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Contributors
• European Union An empire in new clothes?
• 1 EU's eastern ‘empire’
• 2 ‘Empire’, ‘governing from the distance’, and the mitigation of violence Towards a novel policy framework for the EU politics
• 3 The uses and misuses of the imperial paradigm in the study of European integration
• 4 European Union Imperial geopolitics and enforcements chains
• 5 European Union, conditionality and empire
• 6 Imagining ‘Europe as an empire’ Competing/converging geopolitical imaginations and EU enlargements
• 7 Europe's post-imperial condition
• 8 Linguistic imperialism of and in the European Union
• 9 Through a glass, darkly The symbols of European Empire
• Index