The securitization of migration reinforces a politics of fear and racism.
At the present juncture, EU-Turkey relations seem to be evolving towards a strategic partnership rather than Turkey’s full integration into the Union.
Hard-line security actions could be necessary to reassure the public and to prevent further strikes. However, they have proven their limits in the very recent past.
EU borders cannot be understood without understanding the relations with its neighbours and the stability in its borderlands. The image of Fortress Europe is too naïve.
Sanctions per se are not irreconcilable with normative behaviour, as they may perform the function of conveying a normative argument rather than merely coerce the other.
Religion may appear elusive in a European Union criticised for its abstraction, but the European context reinforces the national character of religions.
Despite the secularisation of European politics and other changes in the religious environment, a confessional culture still affects movement towards European unity.
Ivan Krastev discusses Russia’s troubled relationship with the West, the problems with democratic triumphalism, and the role of the EU in the post-Cold War world.
The UN Refugee Convention and the rights and obligations which flow from it are inadequate and need to be fundamentally revised.
This thought-provoking volume on the EU’s role as an international actor contains numerous strong chapters, but sadly their coherence together as a whole is lacking.
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